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12 blogs about Economics.

  1. Conversable Economist
    In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”. By Timothy Taylor. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Pushback on Pessimism About Randomized Controlled Trials
    Back in January, I posted about an article that was getting some attention in my world. Megan T. Stevenson is an active researcher in the criminal-justice-and-economics literature. She argues that when you look at the …
    By conversableeconomist, 1,393 words

  2. Coppola Comment
    Finance, economics and music. By Frances Coppola. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Demons deserve our sympathy
    My latest Coppola Comment post reflects on what we mean by "demons". Are they really the evil spirits of myth? Or are they a metaphor for something else - something all too human, and for …
    By Frances Coppola, 334 words

  3. Econbrowser
    Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Fed Board: “Why is the U.S. GDP recovering faster than other advanced economies?”
    An extensive Board article released on Friday: Figure 1 displays the fact that the US has reverted to pre-Covid trend, while other economies have not (pity poor UK, buffeted by Covid and Brexit). From the …
    By Menzie Chinn, 140 words

  4. EconLog - Econlib
    Bloggers … write on topical economics of interest to them, illuminating subjects from politics and finance, to recent films and cultural observations, to history and literature. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Are You a Product?
    We should be careful about words, expressions, and catchphrases, especially those political hyperboles that buttress the statist zeitgeist of our time. You are a product of greedy corporations. The author of the May 16 Economist …
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  5. The Enlightened Economist
    Economics and business books. By Diane Coyle. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Uber goes to Washington
    Uber arouses strong opinions, for some good reasons. The trouble is – for those who strongly dislike the company’s treatment of its drivers – that it offers a service users and even some drivers seem …
    By Diane Coyle, 300 words

  6. The Irish Economy
    Commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy. 🇮🇪 More info

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    IEA 2024 Conference Programme
    The 37th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference will take place at the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill, Galway from Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th May 2024. The keynote speakers are Prof. Costas Meghir, Douglas A. Warner …
    By John Cullinan, 107 words

  7. mainly macro
    Comment on macroeconomic issues. By Simon Wren-Lewis. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The political right is in an illiberal trap of its own making, which offers their opponents opportunities
    A new CPS report 'Taking Back Control’, co-written by the relatively sensible and numerate among Conservative MPs Neil O’Brien, proposes a national commitment to return net migration to the historical norm of the tens of …
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  8. Marginal REVOLUTION
    Small Steps Toward A Much Better World. By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Sunday assorted links
    1. The most notable person from each geographic area? 2. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp. 3. Skepticism about the new and higher estimates of the costs of climate change. And here are some …
    By Tyler Cowen, 306 words

  9. Stumbling and Mumbling
    An extremist, not a fanatic. By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Some defunct economist
    "To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty." Napoleon's claim helps explain one of the big problems with centre-left economic policy. He was right. We …
    By chris, 1,195 words

  10. Tax Policy Associates - Reports
    A think tank dedicated to improving tax policy and the public understanding of tax. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Nadhim Zahawi’s SLAPP results in disciplinary action for his lawyer. Why it happened, and what it means.
    Nadhim Zahawi’s attempt to silence me has now resulted in disciplinary action for his lawyer. This is a short piece on why it happened, and what it means – for the lawyer, for SLAPPs, and …
    By Dan, 74 words

  11. Tim Harford | Articles
    The Undercover Economist. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The surprising data behind supercentenarians
    If there is a Dog Heaven, what must Bobi be thinking as he gazes down? Bobi’s place in the record books seemed assured when he died in October at the age of 31 years and …
    By Tim Harford, 977 words

  12. Uneasy Money
    Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey. By David Glasner. 🇺🇸 More info

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    My New Paper on Hawtrey Is Available on SSRN
    Last fall and early winter I posted a series of four blogposts (here, here, here, and here) about or related to Ralph Hawtrey as I was trying to gather my thoughts about an essay I …
    By David Glasner, 231 words