Blogs about Economics
12 blogs about Economics.
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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 infoUpdated
China’s Industrial Policy for Shipbuilding: The US Pushes Back The US Trade Representative has filed a “Report on China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance” (January 16, 2025). In the lingo of US trade law, this is a “Section 301” …
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Coppola Comment
Finance, economics and music.
By Frances Coppola. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The myths that refuse to die In my last post, I debunked the myth of the "reserve pool" of British workers. In this post, I discuss three more labour force myths that refuse to die: the myth of the "tide of …
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Econbrowser
Analysis of current economic conditions and policy.
By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
CBO, Biden Administration, IMF and Other Forecasts CBO released its ten year outlook today (as did the IMF in the WEO January update). Continued but decelerating growth, slightly less optimistic than Administration, noticeably less than the IMF, and FT-Booth survey. Figure 1: …
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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.
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Financial Education and Economic Development Financial education is an essential component for the economic and social development of nations. In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding how personal finances and markets operate is an indispensable skill for individuals and economies alike. …
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The Enlightened Economist
Economics and business books.
By Diane Coyle. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The tech coup It’s some months since I read Marietje Schaake’s The Tech Coup, as she delivered the ST Lee Poicy Lecture here in Cambridge last November 11th, right after the US presidential election. Just a short time …
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The Irish Economy
Commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy.
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Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2025: Call for Papers The 38th Annual Irish Economic Association Conference is being organized by the Department of Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and will be held at the Hilton Belfast, 4 Lanyon Place, Belfast (BT1 3LP), from Thursday, …
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mainly macro
Comment on macroeconomic issues.
By Simon Wren-Lewis. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
After neoliberalism: dynamics of transformation As this will be the last blog until 2025, I thought I’d make it a bit more substantive than usual. Normal service will be resumed in 2025. I started writing about how the UK and …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World.
By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Saturday assorted links 1. Is it bureaucratically hard to give away the Chagos Islands? 2. New Bloomberg results on NYC congestion. 3. George Eliot and tech. 4. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon: “The writer went on to say that he …
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Stumbling and Mumbling
An extremist, not a fanatic.
By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A defence of the triple lock Ben Ramanauskas wants to abolish the pensions triple lock. As a longstanding advocate of it, you'd expect me to disagree. And I do, but not violently. Ben proposes replacing the lock with simply raising the …
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Tax Policy Associates - Reports
A think tank dedicated to improving tax policy and the public understanding of tax.
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Tax cuts and tax rises: do tax cuts pay for themselves? It’s often claimed that tax cuts will “pay for themselves”. There’s good reason to believe that some historic tax cuts have done precisely this – what does that tell us about proposals for tax cuts …
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Tim Harford | Articles
The Undercover Economist.
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Cautionary Tales – Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2) Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could …
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Uneasy Money
Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey.
By David Glasner. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Michael Woodford …