The Slack Wire

(Today was the last day of classes here. The final slide for my macro course was an abridged version of  this Brecht poem , which captures t...

Roger Farmer has a somewhat puzzling guest post up at Noah Smith's place , arguing that economics is right to limit discussion to equili...

A week ago, Mike Konczal asked me to guest blog at Rortybomb . I've finally managed to post something, a critical look at arguments that...

(Warning: To anyone reading this who's not immersed in the debates of the econo blogosphere, this post will fully live up the blog'...

More teaching: We're starting on the open economy now. Exchange rates, trade, international finance, the balance of payments. So one of ...

 Last weekend was the Left Forum. I've been going to these things for years and years, since they were the Socialist Scholars Conference...

Krugman says that Friedman-style monetarism is really just a special case of postwar Keynesian analysis. I agree. (New Keynesianism in turn...

So it's halfway through the semester, and I'm looking over the midterms. Good news: Learning has taken place. One of the things yo...

Playing around with  Google ngrams  for some reason made me think of this: The
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According to the local student paper , my current employer is having a disagreement with some of its workers (pictured above). I was not a...