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Geoffrey Ingham, The Nature of Money ,  I think  this is a remarkable book.  I'm a little out of my depth here (and actually, I haven...

Two can't miss weekend reads:  One. the  " Economist Essay" on the history of financial crises; and two, DeLong on Piketty ...

One recurrent point of reference in Thomas Piketty's fascinating Capital in the 21st Century   is the "trente glorieuses," th...

Friendly note to all the good folks frothing at the mouth over the idea of a "Nobel" Prize for Eugene Fama: you're right.  ...

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...

I've been reading a bit lately on the post-Civil War settlement and in particular, the question of how to redeploy the former slaves, n...

I don't think we are part of the target audience but Mrs. B is a careful manager and take my word for it: WinCo actually has a lot of p...

Much good fun this week over the efforts by the North Carolina legislature to make life difficult for Tesla --thereby, as everybody except...

If you've missed it, stop reading here right  now and pop over to Interfluidity and read up on the new, pervasive, worldwide "res...

There's an episode of Cheers where the entertainment at the accountant's party is the guy who can recite all the telephone area co...

In Misunderstanding Financial Crises, Gary Gorton has such an important point to make that it is a shame he sat on the execution. The one...

Adair Turner's Economics after the Crisis is the kind of book you would want to be read by--well, by the kind of person who would not ...

Paul Krugman's " The Price is Wrong " is about as succinct an explanation as you are likely to get of his position of whether...

I've been reading a fair amount of midcentury history lately --the depression, war, postwar, th at sort of thing --and what I c an'...

Should the Treasury Department run its own cafeteria?  Was it stupid of Henry Ford to run a limestone quarry?  What, if anything, is so all...

Thanks to Elizabeth for the catch of (my) day: private prison as stadium sponsor -- the GEO Group stumps up for a new stadium at Florida A...

You'll Remember the Holland Principle --the one about the govt as an insurance company with the army, or perhaps the other way round....

Found at the stand-up bar in a neighboring chain coffee shop, evidently left behind by the hairy guy with the rank odor who just shuffled d...

One thing conservatives know about the Franklin D. Roosevelt is that he pinched the idea for the New Deal from the fascist Mussolini (snark...

In a book review, Herb Gintis offers an introduction to the modern state: The "welfare state" that ruins our lives is the mode...