Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened.
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Economic policy does not occur in a political vacuum
Of course, even if a policymaker was sure of the
Research explaining mean reversion of election forecasts: why each new poll provides very very little information about the election outcome, given what we already know
Brad DeLong writes: There is a huge amount of mean
The Facts about Tax Progressivity
This is a guest post from political scientist Lucy Barnes,
Potpourri
* Mike Munger's thoughts on my piece about blogging. *
Academic Blogging, Style, and Substance
"Brad DeLong":http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/01/forthcoming-new-york-times-story-on-academic-webloggers.html: bq. The best of us webloggers try to
Writer’s Block
Via "Brad De Long":http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/laugh-if-you-must-but-it-is-published-in-a-refereed-journal.html
Potpourri
* Barry Eichengreen: "Is America Catching the British Disease?":http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eichengreen24/English. The
Does Executive Experience Make A Better President?
Brad DeLong says: bq. ...nobody who has not served a
John Cleese on Extremism
This video reminded me of this post. [Via Brad DeLong.]
Greg Mankiw Hearts Genetic Determinism
Greg Mankiw posts the above graph (courtesy of Economix) and
Why Hasn’t Barack Obama Healed America?
I was going to respond to today's New York Times
Presidents and the Economy
Many more graphs are here. (Hat tip to Brad DeLong.)
Hoisted from Comments: Jim Gimpel
In response to my earlier post, Jim Gimpel offers this
Are Consumers to Blame for the Media’s Focus on the Horse Race ?
The complaints about media coverage of campaigns are well-known: too
Why This Blog?
Why are we writing this blog? Here is a probably-not-exhaustive