I found a funky work-around that does the trick for what I'm working on, but since I've gotten good answers from random questions he...

Writing the last post on Julia Child made me think of this question. Why is it that Americans sneer at the French so much. And if your ans...

The only downside is that I didn't bring the wine into work and I am not sitting on the couch next to Kate. We cooked out of my great ...

David Henderson gives a great talk on the role of economists in ending the draft - a subject he's written on before. It's inter...

This is in Jefferson's letter to William Smith in 1787, shortly before the famous "tree of liberty" line. I think it has impor...

If your definition of "good economics" includes Adam Smith and excludes Paul Samuelson, it is at best incomplete. If it calls t...

I agree with Cowen on GMO foods . Everything I know about them suggests that they're not a health risk at all. I don't know how many...

This is going to sound positively neandthal, but shouldn't the left hand side of a policy rule be something that policy makers have dire...

I want to do two things: first acknowledge the wisdom of Sumner's reaction to all this, and second link to someone that actually seems t...

Here . Questions: 1. Do we think λ=∞, even if we accept a simple IS-LM set up regarding m? 2. Do we agree m is endogenous and a simple...