The Grumpy Economist

  WSJ oped and substack post .

 New post over at grumpy-economist.com substack

 Aftermath. Reflections on the Claudine Gay affair. Over at Substack.  

An essay on substack ; interpreting US inflation history via fiscal theory, prepared as comments for a session at the AEA meetings. 

 Don't piss people off unless you have to. Over at Substack. 

 Post over at Substack . Firing Gay over plagiarism will not fix Harvard.  

 A new post over at Substack, a nice essay by Greg Conti on the future of universities. 

 This is my first post over at Substack. Follow me here  and let me know if it isn't working.  The post is in praise of interest on rese...

Colorado's Supreme Court kicks Trump off the ballot (WSJ). I wrote earlier forecasting constitutional crisis with  next election. Lega...

This is a second post from a set of comments I gave at the NBER Asset Pricing conference in early November at Stanford.   Conference agenda ...

What's the basic story of economic regulation?  Econ 101 courses repeat the  benevolent dictator theory of regulation: There is a "...

A group of faculty at Penn have written A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania  at  https://pennforward.com/ .  They en...

When Jukka Savolainen wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal  I couldn't quite believe it, so I had to go look. Indeed, on the websit...

This post is from a set of comments I gave at the NBER Asset Pricing conference in early November at Stanford.   Conference agenda here . M...

The Supreme Court is hearing a case with profound implications for the income tax. WSJ editorial here  and good commentary from Ilya Shapiro...

  Just in time for the holidays, the perfect stocking stuffer -- if you have really big stockings. 30% discount on Fiscal Theory of the Pric...

With President Milei's election in Argentina, dollarization is suddenly on the table. I'm for it. Here's why. 

Cass Sunstein has a lovely  New York Times essay  that tries to give us back the word "Liberal." I hope it works. 

Sunday Nov 19 6-7 PM I will be giving the "Association Lecture" at the Southern Economics Association conference  in New Orleans. ...

Last week I was honored to be moderator for a discussion with Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott on their new book " Canceling the Americ...