Of Thought & Action

(This is an e-mail I wrote out to a group of friends some time back, so dives into content without giving much prior context. Hopefully it...

Carrying on from where I stopped last time on the monetary typology 5. Henry Thornton : I sometimes like to think that macroeconomi...

As a much delayed follow up from my post proposing a top-level framework for thinking about business cycle macro , here's a framework f...

If you follow macroeconomics or global economic policy, by now you'd be familiar with the recent blow-up over the so-called Reinhart-R...

Reductio ad absurdum is the Latin term for a common device of rhetorical debate - the proof by contradiction. In high school mathematics, ...

Arvind Subramanian , has written a curious op-ed yesterday in which he tries to judge the performance of the state of Gujarat vis a vis ot...

The World Bank does some excellent development research, and really ought to be the first place you turn out for data on world poverty, ine...

Tyler Cowen rounds up the chatter around the Eco Nobel. Here's WSJ , and here are the Thomson Reuters predictions . Northwestern has i...