About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.…
Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on…
Can’t wait to see May data. Figure 1: PPI for furniture and household durables, n.s.a. (blue, left log scale), and…
Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues…
Just published, Chinn-Ito index, available here. Normalized to [0,1], with 1 being most open, here’s the world. Here’re average values…
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use…
I love these glow-in-the-dark petunias. Aside from the novelty, they speak to science and progress! The petunias were genetically modified…
Econ 101 is often dismissed as too simplistic. Yet recent events suggest that Econ 101 is underrated. Take the tariff…
Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently tweeted that they wanted to bring back apparel manufacturing to the…