The Slack Wire

A comrade writes: Economics is too important to leave it to the mainstream. Economic ideas and economists are very powerful at shaping and...

... or at least some interesting posts. 1. What Kind of Science Would Economics Be If It Really Were a Science? Peter Dorman is one of those...

Yglesias weighs in on the New York Times paywall: It’s always worth emphasizing in these discussions that the widespread view among journ...

The New York Times paywall is here. Felix Salmon has the details, and what looks like the definitive critique: What does all this mean for...

Doug Henwood remembers Bob Fitch in The Nation . Read.

In today's Times , Bank of America explains why there can't be any principal reductions for homeowners who aren't already in def...

I just learned that Bob Fitch has died. He broke his leg last month, and then a few days ago a blood clot went to his brain, causing a strok...

From the FT the other day : That Facebook is worth $50bn or Twitter $10bn, is recounted as fact. ... But there are still precious few numb...

Over on VoxEU , Avinash Persaud criticizes "otherwise respectable economists" (he doesn't name names, but we know who he means...

The always interesting Steve Randy Waldman , in response to Tyler Cowen's argument for a technologically-determined "Great Stagnat...