Thoughts On Economics

Paul Krugman's Godley-Tobin Lecture Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven on Samir Amin and Beyond Eurocentrism . Rebecca Hasdell's What...

To the common reader, the distinctions among old Keynesianism, new Keynesian, and Post Keynesianism might seem confusing. You might find th...

Zach Carter has an appreciation of Joan Robinson's work on imperfect competition, with a bit about the role of Cambridge circus in hel...

David Graeber's review of Robert Skidelsky's Money and Government: The past and Future of Government . A TED talk, by Nick Hanaue...

I happen to think the minimum wage in the United States should be raised. I'll go along with the consensus of $15 an hour. I also hap...

Figure 1: Intercepts of Production Possibilities Frontiers for England 1.0 Introduction In this example, gains and losses from trad...

Apparently, a character in a current movie, Crazy Rich Asians is an economist. Dan Kopf considers whether she is a good economist. In a ...

Figure 1: The Production Possibility Frontier, With And Without Trade, In "Germany" 1.0 Introduction I continue to blunde...

Over on EconSpeak, Bruce Wilder provides some comments on a post. He notes that economists wanting to criticize glib free-market ideology...

A debate has recently arisen about Gerald Friedman's analysis of Bernie Sanders' proposed economic program. In a welcome turn...

1.0 Introduction Robert B. Reich has a new book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few out last year. Paul Krugman reviewed it, o...

In his editorial in the New York Times this morning (14 September 2015), Paul Krugman writes about Jeremy Corbyn and the British Labour Pa...

In a Bloomberg News piece , Noah Smith makes some false claims. I think his mistakes - what Eatwell and Milgate call an imperfectionist v...

Strangely, some prominent, somewhat liberal, economics bloggers have decided simultaneously to complain about (unnamed) left-leaning hetero...

I have occasionally summarized certain aspects of microeconomics, concentrating on markets that are not perfectly competitive. Further d...

I thought that Krugman had a post about Paul Ryan stating, incorrectly, that Obama had increased the size of the government. And he won...

What economists would you expect somebody with a general university education to have heard of? My list is quite short: Adam Smith Karl ...

Figure 1: Paul Krugman And Bill O'Reilly Talk To Tim Russert "My problem was ... to pose the question, 'How is it that at ce...

Table 3: The Perceived Importance of Problems Facing U.S.A. Problem % Wealthy Saying "Very Important" Budget deficits 87 Unempl...

I probably will not order the first two. But I think their existence is of interest. And I do not currently have access to the third. Nor...