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
Why Don’t EU Firms Innovate? The Hidden Costs of Failure A simple-minded view of a business trying to innovate might go like this: You spend some money, hire some workers, give it a try–and if it fails to produce revenue, you take your losses, close …
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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
How Competitive Is China? This probably seems like a silly question, but it’s actually a hard one to answer quantitatively. The standard measure is the CPI deflated trade weighted exchange rate, but this uses prices relevant to consumers, not …
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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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Whose prices rise with tariffs? Economic theory predicts that, except in certain edge cases, tariffs will raise the domestic price of imported goods and services in a country. The way economists present the effects of tariffs to students is generally …
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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
The politics of stupid I had a conversation on social media recently that went a bit like this (and I’m paraphrasing): ‘I want massive reductions in immigration’ ‘But how? Stopping firms or the public sector’s hiring Labour, or collapsing …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World.
By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
UK fact of the day (52 snippets from 2024) In the UK, more than half of crimes are estimated to be caused by alcohol consumption. From Yuri, here are 51 others, not mainly about the UK: “More countries have produced a nuclear bomb than …
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Stumbling and Mumbling
An extremist, not a fanatic.
By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Repairing the public sphere In 1968 Garrett Hardin wrote an essay (pdf), The tragedy of the commons, in which he argued that common ownership of assets such as land or fishing waters was incompatible with people being the selfish …
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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 stop IHT avoidance but protect farmers New data suggests that one third of the farm estates affected by the Budget changes aren’t owned by farmers – they’re held by investors for tax planning purposes. This suggests the Budget proposal doesn’t go …
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Tim Harford | Articles
The Undercover Economist.
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What can we learn from fraud and folly? The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, for work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”, came and went this year, with a clutch of worthy winners. I must report, more in sorrow than in anger, …
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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 …