In response to my previous post Mark Thoma and I had a bit of a roundabout on Twitter. His first point is that he wasn't addressing our ...

Many thanks to Henry Farrell for discussing some research co-written by a decent chunk of this blog's contributors, which was just rel...

On Monday, I argued investment incentive policy is best understood within a political framework that takes seriously t...

This post is basically to point to the new preface by Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen to Kindleberger's The World In Depression 1929-...

(Apologies for the light posting. Real work plus a family emergency has gotten in the way. Normal posting should continue for most of the re...

Ian Bremmer sounds the alarm : Here are the two irreconcilable facts that shape the United States’ role in foreign policy: first, it is th...

So asks Ezra Klein : Not in absolute terms, of course. Unemployment remains high. Growth remains anemic. Markets remain shaky. But Eur...

I read Barry Eichengreen's Exorbitant Privilege  last night, whose subject is found in the subtitle "the Rise and Fall of the Dolla...

Some of these I may blog properly later, but time is scarce these days. -- Ikenberry responds to Walt . -- Good discussion of Herbert Si...

On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms  Francis X. Diebold, Kamil Yilmaz NBER ...

(click here for animation) Via TC, a data point that reinforces some research that the IPE@UNC crew has been conducting: MFIs in Eu...

Probably won't get to blog these properly, but they deserve attention. -- Sad that this is necessary, but Barry Eichengreen discusse...

Henry Farrell characterizes the debate between Drezner and Slaughter as over "whether realism or networked internationalism best descr...

Layna Mosley, one of my professors here at UNC, has a guest-post at the Monkey Cage on the sovereign debt downgrade. I'm not goin...

... That I won't properly blog. -- US and Mexico finally reach agreement on cross-border trucking. This issue has been festering since ...

Well, me. Nevertheless, Nexon on Caverley , Caverley responds . No deep thoughts from me, as I haven't read the article under discussion...

This weekend I got bored of cleaning some BIS banking data, so decided to play around with their foreign exchange data while watching the Ca...

(Click for larger image. The U.S. economy as a network, divided by sectors: Technology (blue), oil (dark gray), other basic materials (light...

UNC alum James Surowiecki on Chimerica and Chinese consumer spending Employment Outlook for Humanities Ph.D.'s: Not Good Jeffrey Goldber...