ECONOMY

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: A Crypto Fairy Tale

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use…

3 hours ago

Summer Camp for Economic Theorists

About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.…

3 days ago

Steel Tariffs in Two Pictures

Recall Principle 2 of Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy, Businesses are Consumers Too. Case in point, steel. Justin Wolfers…

6 days ago

Greenland Next

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1 week ago

The Licensing Racket

I review a very good new book on occupational licensing, The Licensing Racket by Rebecca Haw Allensworth in the WSJ.…

2 weeks ago

Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy

Are we in a trade war today? Who knows? Doesn’t really matter. It’s always a good time to review important…

2 weeks ago

Bringing Down Grocery Prices, Trump Style

CPI food at home is 8% of total CPI weights, fresh vegetables and fruit are 1.1%. Assume half of fresh…

3 weeks ago

FDA Deregulation of E-Cigarettes Saved Lives and Spurred Innovation

What would happen to drug development if the FDA lost its authority to prohibit new drugs? Would research and development…

3 weeks ago

Economic Confidence in the Future Declines

January Conference Board confidence index comes in at 104.1 vs. 105.7 Bloomberg consensus, down from 109.5 in December. A 5.4…

3 weeks ago

AI Improves Student Learning and Engagement

In our paper on online education, Tyler and I wrote: One model of a future course is a super-textbook: lectures,…

4 weeks ago