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12 blogs about Economics.

  1. 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 info

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    Nordhaus Reflects on Technology and Climate Change
    William Nordhaus (Nobel ’18) reflects on his pathway into and through economics in “Looking Backward, Looking Forward” (Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, 16: 1–20). He writes: “I first saw light in Albuquerque, New Mexico, …
    By conversableeconomist, 1,092 words
  2. Coppola Comment
    Finance, economics and music. By Frances Coppola. 🇬🇧 More info

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    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 …
    By Frances Coppola, 79 words
  3. Econbrowser
    Analysis of current economic conditions and policy. By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸 More info

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    TIPS Yield, Inflation Breakeven and Dollar Rise
    Consistent with expansionary fiscal policy plus tariffs hitting a non-passive Fed reaction function. Figure 1: TIPS constant maturity 5 year yield (blue), five year breakeven (Treasury minus TIPS) (red), both in %. Red dashed line …
    By Menzie Chinn, 92 words
  4. 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. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Fine Tuning Policy
    While trying to make an analogy for a smartphone review, the technology reviewer and journalist Marques Brownlee once made the following observation about the Porsche 911: Have you ever listened to a car reviewer describe …
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  5. The Enlightened Economist
    Economics and business books. By Diane Coyle. 🇬🇧 More info

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    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 …
    By Diane Coyle, 510 words
  6. The Irish Economy
    Commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy. 🇮🇪 More info

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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, …
    By The Irish Economy, 446 words
  7. mainly macro
    Comment on macroeconomic issues. By Simon Wren-Lewis. 🇬🇧 More info

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    The Markets, the Budget, the Media and electing a Fascist
    Our readers are too stupid to understand financial arbitrage and very basic macroeconomics, so we will pretend financial markets are like economic oracles or jealous gods. This seems to be the attitude of much of …
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  8. Marginal REVOLUTION
    Small Steps Toward A Much Better World. By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸 More info

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    *Blitz* (no spoilers)
    This is the Steve McQueen movie about the Nazi blitz against London. I found it visually superb, countering clichés (mostly), showing a different and more varied side of civilian life in wartime, and perhaps the …
    By Tyler Cowen, 188 words
  9. Stumbling and Mumbling
    An extremist, not a fanatic. By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧 More info

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    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 …
    By chris, 1,080 words
  10. Tax Policy Associates - Reports
    A think tank dedicated to improving tax policy and the public understanding of tax. 🇬🇧 More info

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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 …
    By Dan, 119 words
  11. Tim Harford | Articles
    The Undercover Economist. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Cautionary Tales – Darwin’s Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal
    Charles Darwin was stumped by peacocks. According to his theory of evolution, some creatures were better equipped to survive in their particular environment than others. It explained a lot – but it didn’t explain the …
    By Tim Harford, 174 words
  12. Uneasy Money
    Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey. By David Glasner. 🇺🇸 More info

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    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 …
    By David Glasner, 3,006 words