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Not exactly; you have to read between the lines a little. People are talking about this new thing from the IMF , reviving the 1930s-era ...

I put up a post the other day about Enno Schroder's excellent work on accounting for changes in trade flows. Based on the comments, th...

I just participated (for the last time, thank god) in the UMass-New School economics graduate student conference , which left me feeling pre...

" Storm surge barriers , the huge sea gates that some scientists say would be the best protection against floods, could cost as much as...

I'd like to promise a more regular posting schedule here. On the other hand, seeing as I'm on the academic job market this fall (any...

Don't you love the  Romney video ? I'm not going to deny it, right now I am with Team Dem. It's true, we usually say "the b...

From Keynes (1937) , "The General Theory of Employment": We have, as a rule, only the vaguest idea of any but the most direct...

I have a new post up at the Jacobin , responding to Mike Beggs' critical review of David Graeber's Debt . It's a much longer, an...

From Eric Foner's A Short History of Reconstruction : Even more outrageous than Tweed ... was Massachusetts Congressman Benjamin F. Bu...

by Will Boisvert Last summer I posted an essay here arguing that nuclear power is a lot safer than people think—about a hundred times saf...