ECONOMY

You Can See the End of the Great Stagnation Everywhere but in the Productivity Statistics
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 26, 2025
Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues

Chinn-Ito Financial Openness Index Updated to 2022
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 23, 2025
Just published, Chinn-Ito index, available here. Normalized to [0,1], with 1 being most open, here’s the world. Here’re average values

I talk with Gerry Baker
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 20, 2025
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use

Glow in the Dark Flowers!
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 17, 2025
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 Underrated: Pharma Price Controls
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 14, 2025
Econ 101 is often dismissed as too simplistic. Yet recent events suggest that Econ 101 is underrated. Take the tariff

This is Vindication???
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 11, 2025
Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It

Has Clothing Declined in Quality?
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 8, 2025
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently tweeted that they wanted to bring back apparel manufacturing to the

Lifetime Expected Consumption
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 5, 2025
What does it mean to be wealthy and how should we factor in say, life expectancy? Lyman Stone offers an

Harvard faculty put their money where their mouths are
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 2, 2025
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use

The Public Choice Outreach Conference
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 29, 2025
There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! Do encourage your students to apply!