The U.S. often takes hostages in trade fights. They usually aren’t live human beings
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Should corporations be able to sue foreign governments? The U.S. could owe billions.
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Why do white men love Donald Trump so much?
[caption id="attachment_45968" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] (Scott Olson/Getty Images)[/caption] The rise of
Mortality rates for middle-aged white men have been going down, not up
There's this story going around that the world isn't so
How political science helps explain the rise of Trump: Most voters aren’t ideologues
Donald Trump's success in the Republican presidential primaries — especially after
Tirole on why societies often resist the policy recommendations of economists
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Congress in the rearview mirror
[caption id="attachment_4526" align="aligncenter" width="3264" special=""] Congress in hindsight. (Photo: Sarah
"The definitive account of what really happened and what really mattered in the campaign."
This week I will be writing some posts about a
No, math cannot predict the rise and fall of empires
Can math predict the rise and fall of empires? Math
The Political Science of PRISM and International Privacy
The "Financial Times":http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd7dd97c-eed5-11e2-b8ec-00144feabdc0.html has an editorial warning gravely that the
The Purest Political Economist of Them All: Albert Hirschman’s Legacy
Continuing our collaboration with the APSA Political Economy newsletter, today
Understanding Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is a history professor who also gives paid
One reason that Summers and Obama might not have pushed for a bigger stimulus in 2009
Miles Kimball (link from Tyler Cowen; see also Paul Krugman
Potpourri
* We have been remiss in not mentioning the death
Potpourri
* We mistakenly assume that nonvoters would vote like we
Red state blue state, or, states and counties are not persons
Tyler Cowen points to this news article by Lauren Sandler:
Making the world safe . . . for the other party to mess it up
Mark Lilla writes: Reagan did in fact restore (then overinflate)
It’s Still Hard for People to Get the Fundamentals Right
Alas, this topic is becoming a series. Jonathan Martin: bq.
Choices in graphing parallel time series
I saw this graph posted by Tyler Cowen: and my
Greece, brinkmanship and the euro, again
A few months ago, Jacob Kirkegaard was "congratulating the EU's
Journal Authors, Not Journal Articles
Jeff Ely: The way it works now is you write
Lamentably common misunderstanding of meritocracy
Tyler Cowen pointed to an article by business-school professor Luigi
Racially Charged Searches and the Obama Vote
While most studies find little evidence that race mattered a
Historian and journalist slug it out
Apparently I'm not the only person to question some of
How to Become a Political Blogger
A new book by Tanni Haas interviews 20 political bloggers
All that you ever wanted to know about the political economy of small businesses in Italy, but were afraid to ask (and much, much more)
"Matt Yglesias":http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/24/352064/italys-small-business-problem/ and "Tyler Cowen":http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/why-is-italy-doing-so-much-worse-these-days.html argue that Italy's economic problems
E-Publishing and the Budget Battle
Don Taylor of The Incidental Economist emails regarding his new
Does blogging help your professional reputation?
Following on Henry's post, here is more: bq. Davis et
Do academic economists really not talk about economic factors when they talk about academic jobs in economics?
Tyler Cowen writes: When it comes to the job market
“Scientists Are Talking, But Mostly To Each Other”
Journal publication has long been relied on as the only
In Which I Tell Tyler Cowen That He Features in a Dutch Novel
The story is here. I neglected to mention that his
The Monkey Cage Named “Blog of the Year”
As Henry alluded to, and Seth Masket already noticed, The
Asymmetry in Political Bias
Tyler Cowen points to an article by Riccardo Puglisi, who
Irritating pseudo-populism, backed up by false statistics and implausible speculations
Tyler Cowen links to this article by Matt Ridley that
What is an economic “conspiracy theory”?
Reviewing a research article by Michael Spence and Sandile Hlatshwayo
Terrorists on Tight Budgets
"Tyler Cowen":http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/03/price-elastic-terrorists.html blogs on the decision of an al Qaeda
Potpourri
* "Accuracy of 2010 election polls and forecasts":http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/ratings/2010/summary/. * Tyler
Science, ideology, and human origins
A link from Tyler Cowen led me to this long
“‘Why work?'”
Tyler Cowen links to a "scary comparison" that claims that
Lifemanship (Academic edition)
"Chris Blattman quotes":http://chrisblattman.com/2010/11/16/why-most-research-will-tend-to-be-wrong/ the bit of the essay on the
Potpourri
* "More":http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/07/polisci on the relevance of political science, from this
The Gary King equilibrium
"Tyler Cowen":http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/03/good-sentences.html picks up on the 'technical note' in Andrew's
The Big Something?
Things have been rather gloomy of late here at the
The weirder the better
Lee didn't only publish "multitudes of serious research articles":https://themonkeycage.org/2009/12/while_you_were_sleeping_lee_wa.html. He
Scrabble flashback, and why Tyler Cowen is being too hard on Sarah Palin
This comment by Tyler Cowen on Sarah Palin's poor Scrabble
STV and party identification
"Tyler Cowen":http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/11/range-voting.html in an aside at Marginal Revolution. bq. Most
More on Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
Here's a sampling of links: * Alex Tabarrok has this
The Mindset of Unethical Politicians
Jeff Smith is a friend of mine from our days
The median voter theorem as a weak force in politics
Tyler Cowen writes: Median voter theorem. It's my [Cowen's] first-cut
6 percent . . . not bad!
Tyler Cowen links to this report that "economists comprised only
Presidents and the Economy
Many more graphs are here. (Hat tip to Brad DeLong.)
Is Ron Paul Changing American Politics?
bq. Ron Paul is changing the ideological landscape of American
Why This Blog?
Why are we writing this blog? Here is a probably-not-exhaustive