Anti-Dismal

Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book (co-authored with Kevin Munger), Choosing in ...

Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the M...

or so says Jim Rose at the Utopia - You are standing in it! blog. As a practical notion the statement is ok but as a theoretical stateme...

Daniel Sumner of the University of California talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about agricultural subsidies in the United States, the ...

It has been pointed out to me that the graduate offerings in economics at Canterbury this year are ECON 610-S1/S2 Directed Readings in Eco...

From VoxEU.org comes this audio in which Philippe Aghion is interviewed by Viv Davies on the subject of the recent Noble prize winner Jean...

Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on whether the financial sector is good for society and a...

Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopa...

Thats a headline from the Wonkblog at the Washington Post , which says it all. Matt O'Brien makes a simple but important point when ...

Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food ...

A joke attributed to Robert Tollison An economic historian is someone in a dark room looking for a black cat. An economic theorist is so...

The seemingly never ending debate on the effects of the minimum wage continues with a new NBER working paper out on The Minimum Wage and th...

Joshua Greene, of Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them , talks with EconTalk hos...

Yet more blatant self promotion. A new version of the paper. The introduction has been reworked a bit. A couple of new references. A number ...

A question for the LaTex gurus out there. How do you get equations numbers of the form "page number.equation number”. Is there a way to...

A few interesting blog bits to start the year with. Chris Dillow writes in Praise of Complexity Economics One feature of complexity econo...

As it seems to be the time of the year for ranking economists here is a list of the top female economists. The list is computed with data f...

As you have a few days off and thus time to relax and view videos on economics here are two short videos in which Lynne Kiesling looks at bo...

A short video of Lynne Kiesling discussing the knowledge problem. Hayek's work in the 20th century explored a range of ideas, one of th...

In a letter to the Wall Street Journal Don Boudreaux points out one reason , anti-competitive behaviour on the part of higher wage firms: ...