Xavier Marquez has a very interesting series of posts on the relationship between democracy and economic growth since the end of WWII: T...

In his op-ed , Tyler Cowen raises a concern about a euro-collapse that I haven't much seen previously: We thus face the danger that th...

Tyler Cowen summons his inner Kindleberger and gets pessimistic: We are realizing just how much international economic order depends on t...

New research from Livia Chitu, Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud J. Mehl. The abstract: This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the do...

Some argue that we understate the significance of the Asian crisis. So, here are three graphs of equity market correlations in moments of r...

Blogging has been non-existent the past few days because more pressing work has taken precedence. One such thing was an essay (with Thomas) ...

Henry Farrell re-ups his view of the eurozone as being a game of brinksmanship between Germany and Greece. I objected to this characterizat...

Following up on my post below , here's how our elected leaders view social science : “We’re spending $70 per person to fill out [The A...

Earlier this week PM included this line in defense of NSF funding for political science at DoM: Indeed, the alternative to good social sc...

In one small part of a longer discussion Scott Sumner says something interesting : Macroeconomics is the study of policy failure. Once an...