Twenty-Cent Paradigms

Recently, Bloomberg published a Barry Eichengreen column headlined "Don't Sell the Euro Short.  It's Here to Stay" .  He w...

Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported : As he prepared to sign orders designed to roll back bank regulations enacted to stop the next fina...

The most troubling aspects of President Trump's immigration executive order are the moral and national security implications (the later...

The UK pound plunged again earlier this month: two dates are marked with vertical lines: the the Brexit vote (red line) and the Prime Min...

The eighth anniversary of the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers investment bank is coming up later this month.  It marked a point where the ...

Being an academic economist can be humbling - while it involves learning lots of esoteric stuff, it also makes one much more aware of how mu...

I've posted a draft of my research paper, " Hysteresis in a New Keynesian Model " on my website.  The paper proposes a way of ...

As an economist, one of the biggest frustrations of discussions over climate policy is that we know pretty well what to do - tax carbon (or ...

I'm hoping I'll have a chance to read Robert Gordon's new book soon, though one of the ironies of being a college professor is ...

Principles of Macroeconomics, that is, since it is under attack from Noah Smith, who argues for eliminating introductory macroeconomics clas...