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Casey Mulligan reminds National Review Online readers that fellow high-profile economist Paul Krugman is wrong about many of the issues that attract his attention. Professor Paul Krugman “has a good…
Nicholas Kaster writes at the American Thinker about a key problem linked to the American response to COVID-19. In retrospect, and despite their air of authority, the experts never had…
On occasion, when discussion another example of cronyism, I have called it a "public-choice problem." What does that mean?
Paul Romer won the Nobel prize in economics for showing how innovation creates economic growth. A new working paper from Raj Chetty and his colleagues presents a model of how…
And David Henderson has written a typically insightful peice about it in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the ending: In Mr. Thaler’s influential 2008 book “Nudge,” written with Harvard law…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explores a curious double standard when it comes to federal government budget deficits. It has long been rumored that Paul Krugman does not write…
Among others, the Nobel committee might consider Paul Krugman’s. As Don Boudreaux points out in the letter below, Krugman evidently can be fooled by mere linguistic tricks regarding basic economic…
Gene Epstein explains in his latest “Economic Beat” column for Barron’s why the latest Nobel Prize awarded for economics misses the mark. The 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded…
The world has lost an intellectual giant, University of Chicago Economist and 1991 Nobel prize winner in economics Ronald Coase passed away yesterday at the age of 102. Coase is…
The “how to” issue from Bloomberg Businessweek asks Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to address a vital topic with which he is all too familiar: how to beat a dead…
Kevin D. Williamson argues in a new National Review Online column that a well-known Nobel Prize-winning economics professor falls short of the mark, when that mark is the pinnacle of…
James Buchanan, founder of Public Choice theory and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, died last night. More than any other, his theory makes sense for me of…