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
Interview with Laura Alfaro: Globalization and the Great Reallocation David A. Price of the Richmond Fed serves as interlocutor in an interview with “Laura Alfaro: On global supply chains, sentiment about trade, and what to learn from Latin America” (Econ Focus, Fourth Quarter 2024, …
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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
Instantaneous Inflation Rates PPI and core PPI y/y slightly above consensus: Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation (T=12, a=4) for CPI (bold blue), PCE deflator (green), PCE market based deflator (brown), and HICP (light pink), PPI (red) per Eeckhout (2023). …
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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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You’re Probably Willing to Price Gouge (and That’s OK!) Imagine that Walt is gently swaying in a hammock on a well-deserved vacation day when his phone rings. It’s his boss. She tells him that his co-worker has an emergency and can’t come into work. …
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The Enlightened Economist
Economics and business books.
By Diane Coyle. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The narrow path from votes of despair I read Sam Freedman’s Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It with a mixture of nods of recognition and gasps of disbelief. It’s all too apparent that – as the subtitle puts …
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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
How could they vote for him? By now you will have probably read thousands of words about Trump’s sweeping election victory, so what can I hope to add? The biggest puzzle for me, and I suspect many others both inside and …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World.
By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
*Kaput: The End of the German Miracle* By Wolfgang Münchau, this book is the best and most detailed account of the German economic decline to date. Excerpt: In 2018, the federal government promised that Germany would become a world leader in artificial …
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Stumbling and Mumbling
An extremist, not a fanatic.
By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Against Scooby Doo ideology There's an unspoken and apparently unquestioned presumption at the centre of this government's economic policy. We saw three examples of it this week. The first came in Starmer's speech at an investment summit where he …
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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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How to reform HMRC penalties for people on low incomes Between 2018 and 2022, almost 660,000 people on low incomes received a penalty for not filing a tax return on time. Very few of them earned enough to pay any tax. But, by failing to …
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Tim Harford | Articles
The Undercover Economist.
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Beard taxes and other lessons for Rachel Reeves When Ernest Borgnine auditioned for the title role of Marty, he knew this could be his big break. Typecast as a bit-part thug, Borgnine was nearly 40, losing his hair and putting on weight. Marty …
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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 …