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I've finally made my way through Neil Irwin's The Alchemists , and it's been a worthwhile trip. Well: it's been a long s...

This may be old stuff to everybody but me but this morning I was reading Krugman on IS-LM and a light dawned about econ is taught to begin...

MacroMan (via Ritholtz) thinks Greenspan cribbed it from Shiller .  Shiller returns the serv e.

I spoke my piece last night on Mark Thoma's exposition/defense of macro .  I have no instinct to restate or reconsider, but I do want t...

Had an interesting, if inconclusive, discussion this morning with my friend about Ignota about what we (know) (do not know) about the enduri...

Straight steal from  MR : Larry Summers  speaking  at IMF/World Bank meeting: The challenge is “finding the language that generate...

Here's a book I'm waiting for: I'd like a single tour d'horizon of all the four-and-twenty warring sects of macro--or at le...

Here's one of the most nihilistic takes on current policy I've seen from a normally temperate mainstream blogsite.   Also correct.

Yesterday I was complaining about the abysmal low level of discourse in macroeconomics. As if on cue, here's the nation's leading...

I'm still puzzling over the scandal of economic theory that I was mulling over yesterday --the other discontinuity of view between comp...

Willem Butler (via Mark Thoma ) offers an account--far more elaborate and sophisticated than my own, of the similarity between Macro and Phr...