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While on blogging hiatus I read (listened to, actually) a very important book: Charles Murray's Coming Apart . Many parts of the boo...

One of my favorite teachers at Michigan was a self-effacing but brilliant labor economist named Mike Elsby . Mike has sadly decamped for...

There has been a lot of talk about raising the minimum wage lately. Minimum wage is one of those things where the public strongly disag...

Mike Konczal caused a splash when he suggested the other day that we're teaching econ backwards : Today, first-year undergraduate st...

The Not Quite Noahpinion experiment is complete, and I'm back from blogging hiatus. Thanks so much to Carola, John, Yichuan, Josiah,...

I was recently interviewed by Jim Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute for his Ricochet podcast. The subject was the "ri...

I have a new article published on Quartz titled on how recent fiscal events have shown the Fed plays still a powerful role in maintaining ...

I spent a good deal of time over the course of the past semester working on topics about Chinese dev...

Oh my gosh. I am really excited. For years, I've been waiting for a chance to disagree with Brad DeLong about something econ-related, ...

In Guan's recent post on this blog, " Scotland, sterling and the debt ," he notes t...

Does your separatist movement have an infographic? Scotland will hold a referendum on independe...

Miles and I have a new article in Quartz , about the shakeup at the Minneapolis Fed, the ongoing battle between Freshwater and Saltwater m...

I have a new article out in The Week , discussing the phenomenon of "bullshit jobs", as postulated by David Graeber. Excerpts: ...

After a long political hibernation, basic income is back. Switzerland is set to vote on a refere...