Tyler Cowen is thinking out loud : This parable assumes that [monetary] injection effects are important, namely where the new money goes f...

Dan Drezner is kicking Britain -- and the American foreign policy commentariat -- while they're down. The essay is mostly good, althou...

A friend of mine -- a student at the Kenan-Flagler Business School -- is profiled in the Financial Times .

Here's David Beckworth explaining a "foolproof" mix of monetary and fiscal policy (bold added): In other words, if the publ...

LFC points to an article by Ward Wilson suggesting that the Japanese did not surrender in WWII because of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima a...

World War II left industrialized societies with two main features: a lot of industrial capacity, and a lot of dead men. These combined to dr...

I have not read much of Robert Fogel's work, not much at all, but I may need to read more of it. A Fine Theorem , one of the more un...

I often think that retaliatory measures taken by aggrieved parties in the WTO dispute settlement process are among the most interesting ...

One of my favorite blogs is Echoes, subtitle "Dispatches from Economic History", at Bloomberg. There isn't a unifying theme ot...

Since I seem to only blog about investor-state dispute related issues, I thought I pass along a recent UNCTAD policy note about reforming ...