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I've spent a lot of time griping about modern macroeconomics, but I want to take a minute to point out how quickly and adroitly the pr...

Here's me being both preachy and alarmist in The Week : For almost 300 years, Ming China could — and did — rightfully consider itse...

I might as well talk about something I don't know that much about, because...I can! Because it's MY blog, suckaz! BUAHAHAH *pause ...

"Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends." - Dr. Manhattan In a recent blog post, Chris House proclaimed the death o...

Chris House has a new blog post that is pretty dismissive of behavioral economics: In the early 2000’s, my colleagues and I were antici...

I was recently interviewed by Tom Ashbrook for NPR's "On Point" about the "jobless economy" - basically, the &q...

Back in 2008, as the financial crisis was unfolding, there was a big argument as to whether the crisis was a "liquidity crisis" ...

I always thought that " core-core " was a kind of hardcore music so hardcore that the on...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo...

More methodology-blogging... Paul Krugman makes an interesting argument about clarity vs. abstruseness in academia:  In my field...

Ramez Naam (whose science fiction books you should read) and William Hertling are having a very interesting discussion about the Singul...

The eternally simmering blog debate over "microfoundations" has reached a sort of bala...

I have a new bet with Kurt Mitman , a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, about unemployment benefits. Kurt, like some other ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about "neoreaction", a new political ideology that...

Japan's militarist nationalists never really went away after World War 2, they just bided their time and waited for the day when they ...

High Frequency Trading costs real resources. It consumes computing power and the mental effort of smart people. When we decide if HFT be...

I last heard of Richmond Fed macroeconomist Kartik Athreya about four years ago, when he wrote a screed attacking econ bloggers and rebuk...