Anti-Dismal

Bob Schieffer spoke with Chair of the Council Of Economic Advisors Christina Romer about whether the bailout and stimulus will be effective ...

In an article in the New York Times Greg Mankiw says It's No Time for Protectionism . And he is right. Mankiw writes Just before his co...

At cnn.com , Jeffrey A. Miron has some Libertarian ideas to stimulate economy . Is that an oxymoron? Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer in ec...

Peter Boettke on Some Basic Economics of Public Policy . Eamonn Butler on Bailing out the [UK] carmakers will take us back to the 1970s . Ru...

Burton G. Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University and the author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" has a piece...

From Reason.tv : (HT: Will Wilkinson )

Over at the Atlantic magazine's website is an interview of Harvard macro economist Robert Barro by Conor Clarke. They talk about the s...

Over at his blog Greg Mankiw outlines his preferred fiscal stimulus : Regular readers of this blog have a pretty good sense of my policy pr...

This Policy Brief (pdf) from the Peterson Institute for International Economic s looks at the number of jobs that the Buy America campaign ...

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has this piece on, of all things, the market in burnt out light bulbs . For most of us, it is hard to f...

Willem Buiter tells us, over at FT.com , that YES WE CAN!! have a global depression if we really continue to work at it... Buiter writes I ...

.... you can cut 12 zeros off your banknotes. This report from the BBC says that Zimbabwe is revaluing its dollar again, removing twelve ze...

Eric Crampton point me to a posting at Boing Boing where Charles Platt blogs on Life at Wal-Mart . Platt went from being a senior writer at...

John Cochrane, of the University of Chicago, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis . He talks about the origins ...

Harold L. Cole, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Lee E. Ohanian, professor of economics and director of the Ett...

I quoted trade economist Douglas Irwin in a previous posting on the dangers of protectionism. Now I see that Irwin has an article in the Ne...

Just when you thought the idea of a stimulus package couldn't get any worse, the following report comes from the Washington Post : T...

Karl Storchmann on How Reliable are Wine Judges? Not at all! Declan McCullagh on For Many Economists, Stimulus Falls Flat. Gavin Kennedy tel...

Jeff Sachs is Right! by William Easterly. Actually the full headline is "Jeff Sachs is Right! (at least about one thing)", but th...

Philip Salter at the Adam Smith Institute blog refers us to this essay by the economist Anthony de Jasay. In his essay Anthony de Jasay s...