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What is "derp"? The answer is technical.

There has been much discussion lately concerning the word "derp" and its appropriate usage. For example, Josh Barro used the wor...
What does it mean to have "predicted the crisis"?

Since 2008, quite a lot of people have boldly claimed that they "predicted the crisis". Usually, the claimants use this "f...
What can you do with a DSGE model?

When the Bank of England invited me to give a talk at their workshop on macroeconomics, I wasn't sure if they wanted me to provoke (i....
What is "neoclassical" economics?

New rule: the term "neo-" shall never be applied to anything other than Keanu Reeves' character in The Matrix. OK, just ki...
The Zero Upper Bound?

A funny thing happened the other day. As part of "Abenomics", the Bank of Japan has been buying long-term Japanese government bo...
If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD

People often ask me: "Noah, what career path can I take where I'm virtually guaranteed to get a well-paying job in my field of in...

Noah Smith: Noah has been a physics major at Stanford, an academic editor in Japan, and a grad student in economics at the University of Michigan. He is now an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook, hard at work on solving all the problems of the world.

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