The Grumpy Economist

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From Joseph Epstien's oped in the July 13 WSJ  on Biden v Trump (please, dear Lord, no) Each man has risen to the presidency thanks, mos...

Two attacks, and one defense, of classical liberal ideas appeared over the weekend. " War and Pandemic Highlight Shortcomings of the Fr...

I got a chance to see the page proofs of Michael Weisbach's upcoming book, " The Economists' Craft. "  This leapt out at m...

Alberto Bisin has written  an intriguing short review  of Stephanie Kelton's  The Deficit Myth . Alberto focuses on the  rhetoric  of MM...

I just finished Amity Shlaes' Great Society. It's a great book. I warmly recommend it. The US is debating a fourth great wave of...

Many commenters on the tax bill repeat the worry that companies will just use tax savings to pay dividends or buy back shares rather than ma...

Naomi Rosenberg's Op-Ed in the Sunday New York Times is the best piece of writing I have had the painful pleasure to read in a long time...

Chad Syverson has an interesting new paper on the sources of the productivity slowdown. Background to wake you up: Long-term US growth is ...

Ed Lazear has a nice WSJ oped, " How not to prevent the next financial meltdown ." (Also available here via Hoover .) The main poi...

Michael Ben-Gad has a smashing review, " Into the Labyrinth ", of Yanis Varoufakis' The Global Minotaur  (Disclaimer: I hav...

Source Noah Smith Noah Smith has a good review  of the writing in  Deirdre McCloskey's review of Thomas Piketty's book. A les...

Illustration by Andrew Rae, source New York Times Adam Davidson has a very nice New York Times Magazine article, " Debunking the M...