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In a recent article, I suggested that batteries might replace oil for many of our transportation needs within two decades. Batteries...

A really wonderful blog post by Stephen Senn, head of the Methodology and Statistics Group at the Competence Center for Methodology and...

Here's another point in the ongoing debate over the fate of the American middle class in rec...

Kenneth Thomas of Angry Bear thinks I made an error when I said that things got better for the middle class in the last two decades of t...

Back in February, I made a bet with Kurt Mitman , who wrote a theoretical paper about unemployment benefits and unemployment. Based solel...

Nick Rowe writes : How come no economist on the right is asking "Where are the Galbraiths of yesteryear?"? It's because Mi...

Brad DeLong has a blog post at the Equitable Growth blog called "Scene-Setting for the Pol...

There are a million and one definitions of the word "structural." To a builder or architect, the meaning is straightforward: &...

I love it when we get a new word to describe an annoying behavior that has existed for a long time without a name. For example, I loved ...

Back in 2013, a Chinese zoo tried to pass off a dog as a lion: Most observers laughed, but not Scott Sumner! To Scott, the Lion Dog was...

Today's Bat Boy Award for crazy blogging goes to Ana Swanson of the Washington Post ! The he...

A little while ago, I wrote a Bloomberg View article highlighting some research showing that the economics profession is more biased aga...

Scott Sumner has a reply to a BV piece of mine in which I suggested that the labor disincentive effect of income taxation is relatively ...

If you follow Japan news, you know about Shinzo Abe's "Womenomics" program/meme. You also know that much of the Western pres...