There are a lot of ways to think about what's happened to the flattening of median American income growth. One of the most interesting i...

Wow: Via Uwe Reinhardt, who breaks it down: Jobs in the tradable sector were added primarily in high-value services. They were lost in manuf...

Daniel Davies and Alex Tabarrok objected to the graphs of GDP I included in this post on The Great Stagnation . Specifically, they didn...

Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation has gotten a lot of attention for both its form and content. (I.e., there's more than a little i...

New NBER paper : Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus Michael D. Bordo, Peter L. Rousseau NBER Working Paper No. 17024 Issu...

We are rightly concerned about the economic doldrums in the U.S. and Europe, but we shouldn't forget that elsewhere progress marches on....

We've featured Hans Rosling and his cool data visualizations on this blog multiple times . Now he's got his own BBC show, "The ...

Tyler Cowen gave a talk at UNC today, in what appeared to be a class taught by Mike Munger. It was open to the public, so I went. Cowen intr...

What else is new, I know, but it's always important to take a longer-run perspective : So another way of stating China’s rapid growth re...

As an graduate of Econ 101 can tell you, gross domestic product is calculated according to a modest identity: GDP = Consumption + Investment...

Emmanuel noticed the Dani Rodrik op-ed I quoted the other day, and went off: It honestly bothers me that I was the first to notice this fa...

They've revised upwards their projections for global GDP growth for 2010: The IMF has revised upwards its forecast for growth in the gl...

Nothing. And everything. William Easterly reviews an important new article: Despite Climategate, even a superficial reading seems to indica...

Ed Glaeser wants to know why Argentina's economy hasn't performed better over the past 100 years, and prints this graph: He interpr...

The increase in income inequality has led some to fret about the shrinking middle class in America. See, e.g., this piece by Krugman from ...

Nouriel Roubini offers a list of countries that are doing well : What do these countries have in common? One major theme is that they tended...

In a book review Lynsey Hanley of The Guardian says that economic growth should be abolished : We are rich enough. Economic growth has done...

Matthew Yglesias reads Charles Kenny and decides that policy is overrated: One point Charles Kenny makes in The Success of Development that...