2007
746 posts
2007 746
December 2007
- The economic isolationists are winning
- Career Advice from David Brooks
- A Homework Problem from China
- Krugman on Trade
- Housing becomes more affordable
- The Default Mortgage
- What my kids got for Christmas
- Damning with faint praise?
- Rx for Recession: Let the Fed work
- Forecasting Presidential Elections
- The Department
- Wishful Thinking
- "one of the most interesting things I've ever read"
- The Age of Turbulence
- NPR looks at the Carbon Tax
- Aaron Edlin on Microsoft
- A Talk by Krugman
- Summers on the Economy
- Arrow on Climate Change
- On Health Insurance Mandates
- The Progressivity of the Income Tax
- Should a carbon tax be border adjustable?
- Bad Press for Ben
- Tax rates: Current vs Historical averages
- Amen
- A Defense of Textbook Economics
- How do the right and left differ?
- An Endorsement for the Height Tax
- How to get a PhD and save the world
- Greenspan on the Mortgage Crisis
- Moving toward Perfect Price Discrimination
- One Man, 20 Votes
- Munger on Economics
- The bond market on Iraq
- Economists go for the GOP
- Interview with Maskin and Myerson
- A New Member
- Must or Should?
- Friedman on Clark
- The height tax gets noticed
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Never mind
- One Perspective on Gasoline Prices
- We have only just begun
- Markets in Everything
- CBO Blog
- Ivan Werning
- Feldstein on Recession Risks
- "In the Hamptons"
- The Limits of Egalitarianism
- Larry Summers vs John Snow
- Advertisement
- Is comparative advantage obsolete?
- The Subprime Problem
- Schumpeter
- Principles of Economics, Rap Version
- Autism and Economics
- The Elusive Phillips Curve
- Forecast Update
- Anti-Mankiw
November 2007
- Ambitious or Quixotic?
- A Quick Quiz
- Your preferences are in your genes
- Mishkin on Fed Policy
- Congratulations, Keith
- More on Social Security
- The Sock Market
- Inequality vs Injustice
- The Top One Percent
- The U.S. Budget Balance
- Larry says a recession is coming
- Shiller on Housing Problems
- A Conversation with Richard Freeman
- Moving Down the NX Curve
- Does your neighbor's BMW make you feel bad?
- The Political Divide
- Life's Inequities
- On Selling Votes
- More on Health Care Statistics
- The lost lesson of Thanksgiving
- Krugman vs Krugman
- The Milton Friedman Choir
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- "The situation is not hopeless"
- The Two-Year PhD
- In Ec 10 Today
- Generational Mobility
- Macroeconomic Games
- The Latest on Roland Fryer
- Inequality Everywhere You Look
- In Search of Ideologues
- My Whereabouts Today
- More Al
- A Small Step Forward
- Economics is everywhere
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Mobility is unchanged
- Working women are killers
- Faculty Cars
- Ken Rogoff talks to his son...
- Principles of Economics, Animated
- Interview with Milton Friedman
- The bond market opines on Iraq
- Paul Krugman is right about the dollar
- How to Lose Weight
- Where would you rather be sick?
- P(recession in 2008) = 0.44
- Is higher health spending valuable?
- A Defense of the New Deal
- Abel on Capital Taxes
- My Whereabouts Today
- When economists go bar-hopping
- Katz vs Krugman
- The Obama Tax Plan
- What I've been reading
- Congratulations, Gary
- Email from Baghdad
- Heathcare Q & A
- Several billion join the Pigou Club
- Would you rather be macho or an egghead?
- Write Well, Get Rich
- Don't be fooled with statistics
- Who was Milton Friedman?
- Symptoms
- Another Member
- The View from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
- Glaeser on Gender
- Taylor on Iraq
- Is cap-and-trade a tax increase?
- The Effects of Corporate Taxation
- For new econ PhDs only
- A National Income Accounting Puzzle
October 2007
- Interview with Larry
- The Evolution of Tax Rates
- The Deadweight Loss of Halloween
- Trick or Treat
- A Better Path to Tax Reform
- $ummers
- Something for me to think about
- Redistribution in the Rangel Bill
- Where have all the oil shocks gone?
- A Metaphor
- Krugman vs Obama
- RePEc Blog
- The Mother of All Tax Reforms
- Another Member
- Can food shortages be far behind?
- Correlation vs Causation
- Glaeser on Buffalo
- The Budgetary Cost of the War
- Middle Class Stagnation, Not
- If you don't want to join the Pigou Club...
- Data-free Empirics
- Ten Principles...
- A Dangerous Obsession Redux
- Kennedy on Krugman
- The Shrinking Pay Gap
- An Alternative to Foreign Aid
- A Small Accomplishment
- Bloomberg Podcasts
- I doubt the QJE will follow suit
- McCain on Climate Change
- The Tax Share
- How to be a Redistributionist
- What everyone has been waiting for
- More Competition
- My Whereabouts Today
- Update on the Federal Budget
- Al Roth
- Why Comments are Gone
- Explaining Mechanism Design
- Personal Taxes as a Percent of GDP
- Greenspan on Data and Models
- Bernanke on Financial Turmoil
- From the Campaign Trail
- When to Refinance
- The Envelope Please
- Feldstein on the Dollar
- Is our sense of fairness genetic?
- Strange Bedfellows
- Average Income Tax Rates
- Nobel Odds
- Pigou Club News
- A Defense of Baby Bonds
- Is academia serious about diversity?
- Ed on Paul
- What will the Fed do?
- Market in the Nobel Prize
- Why Economics Should Be a Required Course in High School
- The Case against Insurance Mandates
- My Bet on the Nobel
- Ed's Odd Pigovian Argument
- No Blogging Today
- Nobel Prize Pool
- The Latest in Trade Restrictions
- 3,000,000
- Daron's Twin
- Austan Goolsbee
- The populists are winning
- Furman on SCHIP
- POTUS on SCHIP
- No, really, it's up to you
- Why economists wear kevlar underpants
September 2007
- Finding the Right Precedent
- The Rationality of Harry Markowitz
- On the Ethics of Advising
- Blinder on the Mortgage Mess
- Good News about Marriage
- Behavioral Macroeconomics
- A New Entitlement?
- How the Rich Got Rich
- A Healthcare Quiz
- Night at the Mankiws
- Economic Misconceptions
- Naked Self-Promotion
- The Science and Art of Monetary Policy
- How big a problem is lack of health insurance?
- Plosser: Inflation Hawk
- He’s Happier, She’s Less So
- Am I a typo?
- A Jump in Expected Inflation
- Obama on Social Security
- The Social Security Challenge
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Summers on Moral Hazard
- Goolsbee on Real Estate
- Helicopter Ben
- The Rules of the Game
- Life after Ec 10
- Jon Stewart is a Genius
- DeLong on Greenspan
- A Question for Democrats
- Another Convert
- Politicizing Monetary Policy
- Lucas on Monetary Policy
- Hubbard and Cogan on Healthcare
- Elmendorf on the Subprime Problem
- Schumpeter and Galbraith
- Bernanke on the Great Depression
- Meltzer on Monetary Policy
- Merit Pay
- The Maestro
- The Pigou Club Manifesto II
- Super Crunchers
- UC Davis should be ashamed of itself
- Order and Disorder
- Raj Chetty
- Free Market Hall of Fame
- Hanson vs Cutler
- Google-Scholar vs SSCI
- A Secret Rate Cut?
- A Cross-elasticity Surprise
- What should the fed funds rate be?
- Bernanke on National Saving
- The Inequality Debate
- Harvard Profs on the Fed
- The End of an Era
- Pigou Club T-shirts
- Boys will be boys
- Clinton vs Obama
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Recession Coming?
- Glaeser on the Mortgage Problem
- The LIBOR Puzzle
- The Mismeasurement of Science
- Immigration and the Poverty Rate
- Robert Barro
- Ned Gramlich
- Thank you, Megan...
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- How much cash to hold
- Rogoff on the Fed (and on Marriage)
- Job Market Rumor Mill
- Economic Disaster 101
- House Prices in the Taylor Rule?
- Traffic Citations as a Revenue Source
- The Laibson Plan to End Mortgage Insanity
August 2007
- The Baker-Samwick Proposal
- Number Crunching
- Inequality Up, Mobility the Same
- Advice for the College Bound
- Clark on Africa
- A Subsidy for Country Clubbers
- Surprise of the Day
- The Clinton Rally
- The relative price of a professor
- The magic number 49
- My Last Beach Read of the Summer
- Romer on Growth
- Publish or Perish
- Saint Larry
- The Fair Tax
- Becker and Posner on the Fed
- Cato takes on the Pigou Club
- Susan Athey
- Life Expectancy as a Gauge of Healthcare
- Pigou on Steroids
- Lunch with Ned
- Did the Marshall Plan matter?
- May you live in interesting times
- An Introduction to Abstract Math
- Econ Blogs
- Ned Gramlich
- Econ in Cyberspace
- From Yoram Bauman
- Levy on China
- Professor Vickrey must be smiling
- Stock Market Valuation
- From Keynes to Whom?
- What I learned on my summer vacation
- How We Spend Our Time
- Frank on Economics Education
- PhD or not?
- Financial turmoil...
- Economics for Young Kids
- What I've been reading
- Are pigs flying yet?
- Pigou Club News: CEO Edition
- Puzzle Solved
- What are imaginary numbers good for?
- A Few Good Reads
- High School Economics
- Warning: Advertisement
- The Times on the Dollar
- Pigou Club Headlines
- Escape from Malthus
- A Few Good Reads
- The Sociology of Economics
- Medicare and Medicaid as a Percent of GDP
- Rogoff on Health Care
- Do people dislike being around the rich?
- Adios, Washington Consensus
- The Giuliani Health Plan
- Duopoly
- The Fundamental Theorem of Carbon Taxation
- The Top Three Economic Concepts
- What Makes a Terrorist
- 1,028 economists...
July 2007
- Kristof on Teaching Economics
- Summers on Sovereign Wealth Funds
- Blinder on Taxing Carried Interest
- The New Protectionism
- Brooks on the Economy
- Realpolitik
- Becker on Carbon Taxes
- Two Questions about TAA
- I confess: I am a Potter-Head
- The Taxation of Carried Interest
- Foreign Aid
- Rogoff on the New Red Threat
- A Real World Giffen Good
- Economics at the NY Times
- A Question from France
- On Political Advising, II
- Roland Fryer
- The Dems move left
- Taxing the Rich
- The Fairness Doctrine
- The Big Test
- Carried Interest
- The Current Fiscal Picture
- How to Be an Apostate
- We are caricatured at the NY Times
- The Size of Impending Tax Hikes
- The Phillips curve is alive and well...
- Clinton vs Clinton
- Don't oppose IDEAS
- Why crime has fallen
- Sad News for Harvard
- Why Landsburg is no Levitt
- A saboteur joins the club
- $$$ to Harvard
- Obamanomics
- The Bilateral Trade Deficit
- Michael and Scooter
- Finkelstein on Toll Roads
- On Charlatans and Cranks
- The Economist as Movie Critic
- Collier on Africa
June 2007
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Ranking Econ Departments
- The Odd Couple
- SCOTUS News
- Marron to the CEA
- Mr Buffett's Tax Bill
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Leonhardt on Unions
- The Social Value of a Wall Street Career
- The New Deal Revisited
- BerkShares
- Summers on Inequality
- Are game theorists immature?
- Readings for the Pigou Club
- New from the CEA
- Barro on Gates
- On Political Advising
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- U.S. vs Europe
- Incentive Pay
- The gas tax is now freaky
- QJE Special Offer
- Help me revise
- Unemployment Benefits around the World
- A Veto Threat
- How much progressivity is optimal?
- The Limits of Pigou
- Richard Rorty
- Stan
- MBA vs PhD
- A Carbon Tax North of the Border
- Lhs
- Networking
- "one of the smartest people in the world"
- Harvard Class of 2007
- Forecast Update
- Glaeser on Babeland
- Two from the Cape
- A Comeback for Comparable Worth
- A Reasonable Compromise
- Across the Atlantic
- Thompson's Economist
- Good job, Eliot
- Federalism
- Paying People What They Are Worth
- Quick Quiz
- Which blade of the scissors cuts the paper?
- Pigovian Taxes vs Cap-and-Trade
- A Brainiac for President?
May 2007
- The Wisdom of the OECD
- Hubbard endorses a carbon taxe
- Two from the Fourth Estate
- Preschool Pays
- Quick Math Review
- Verbosity
- Glaeser on Immigration
- Another Reading for the Pigou Club
- Rizzo vs Thaler
- Sunday Reads
- Turnabout
- Bpea
- Justin Wolfers
- Pay at the Top
- Arbitrage Opportunity?
- How not to pick a money manager
- More Competition
- Now we're just haggling over the price
- Slaughter on the Yuan
- How to Become Rich
- Ed Glaeser, Environmentalist
- What would Pigou do?
- Should the Fed cut rates by 3 basis points?
- The Height Tax goes to Alaska
- A New Job for Stan?
- Solow on Schumpeter
- Standup Economist in DC
- Readings for the Pigou Club
- Inequality among Dentists
- Price Gouging
- Advisers to the next POTUS? A Quiz
- Inequality among Economists
- Free Lunch Thinking at Harvard
- Charles Darwin versus Adam Smith
- A Fact in Search of a Theory
- The Danger of Spectator Sports
- Saving on Saving Medicare
- Becker and Murphy on Inequality
- Learn from Jordi
- The Obama-Bush Plan
- Jeremy's Crystal Ball
- Living Wage Redux
- Advertisement
- Blinder on Offshoring
- Help me keep my job
- Some money is not a medium of exchange
- Varian on Stock Market Investing
- Discrimination in the NBA
- Congestion Pricing
- Height Tax in WSJ
- Bernanke on Trade
- A Leak via Ken
- A Busy Afternoon
- Consenting Adults
April 2007
- You like me! You really like me!
- Summers on Climate Change
- Nativist Nonsense
- Bill Bradley on Social Security
- Determinants of Social Spending
- What I've been reading
- Ricardo vs Heckscher-Ohlin
- Taxes around the World
- An Anthropological Digression
- Does free trade lower prices?
- Good Advice
- Bundorf
- Why so much reality TV?
- How Not to Defend Your Dissertation
- Goldin on Academic Motives
- CBO on Cap-and-Trade
- If all else fails, try good policy
- Uh-oh, competition
- Is Steve Levitt ruining economics?
- Who has Obama's ear?
- Buy This Book
- Guess who reads this blog?
- The Economist on Vacation
- Easterly on Wolfowitz
- Sachs in Ec 10
- Inequality in Academia
- Naked Economics
- Road Pricing in NYC
- In Defense of Parlor Games
- The College Premium
- Congratulations, Susan
- Matchmaker, matchmaker...
- Barro on Friedman
- Resale Price Maintenance
- The QJE is now cool
- The Advisers
- The Optimal Taxation of Height
- Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
- A Reading for the Pigou Club
- Becker on the Romney Health Plan
- Clinton vs Friedman
- The Matthew Effect
- Do income effects matter for tax policy?
- Bob Frank replies
- Economics in Song
- On Fama and French
- Climate Change as Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
- Menu Costs
- The Romers on Tax Policy
- CBO on Supply-side Economics
- Plosser on Credibility
- A Teachable Moment
- Frank needs to read more widely
- More on Milton
- The Case against Cap-and-Trade
- A Good Trade Complaint
- On Academic Success
- Mark Your Calendar
- Harvard deans dis econ
- Warning: Spoiler Alert
- A New Reading for the Pigou Club
- A Goofy Debate
- Lunch with Jeff
- From the West Coast
- The Gray Lady
- Making the Case for Tax Cuts
- We are all supply-siders now
- Harvard students love the social sciences
- China's New Currency
- Varian on Fashion
- Does Wall Street prefer cap-and-trade?
- Book Recommendations
- Wisdom from Warren
- From Milton Friedman
- The economic isolationists win one
- What I've been reading
- Tax Incidence in Illinois
- Carbon Tax Problem
- To my ec 10 students
March 2007
- Do we tax energy enough?
- Barstool Tax Policy
- Goolsbee on Subprime Lending
- Two Op-eds from Harvard
- My Father is Darth Vader
- My Life as a Student
- Resale Price Maintenance
- Katz vs Lazear
- Happy Anniversary
- Is the Fed complacent?
- Striking Health Care Fact
- Eichengreen on Europe
- Easterly on Africa
- That explains it: I'm 49
- Banerjee on Development
- Age 53 is optimal...
- Courtroom Bonanza
- Cowen on Health Care
- Is Wage Insurance Optimal?
- Pigou Club News
- Oswald vs Bush on Homeownership
- Fun Fact
- David Friedman's Slippery Slope
- Politics Aside
- The Leisure Class
- Two on the AMT
- Pigou vs Cap-and-Trade
- Glaeser vs Acemoglu
- Twainonomics
- What I've been reading
- Listen to Tyler
- Stiglitz on Prizes
- McCain on the Laffer Curve
- Lessons from the VA
- Who's got the biggest...
- Black Students in the Ivy League
- Ignatius on Universities
- You can never have too many
- Minimum wage vs EITC
- Varian on Leisure
- Viard on Tax Fairness
- Bernanke on the GSEs
- Levitt on Tenure
- McCain on National Service
- Kling on Energy
- Ellison on Peer Review
- On Textbook Writing
- Interview with Eddie
- Myron Scholes
- Clintonomics, 2nd edition
- Paulson on Trade
- The Naked Pigovian
- Goolsbee on the Superrich
February 2007
- Principles of Economics, Translated
- Hcer
- Pedagogical Blogging
- Summers on China
- Teaching vs Research
- A Couple Morning Reads
- Advice for New Junior Faculty
- Sibling Harmony
- Efficiency Wages at Costco
- Budget Options
- Do we need a tax hike?
- Harvard Portrait...
- Anti-depressants and Suicide
- Minimum Half Median
- Nordhaus vs Stern
- Robert Shapiro joins the Pigou Club
- Jane Galt on Behavioral Economics
- Cheaper than Ec 10
- Growth Regressions and Policy Advising
- Nostalgia
- Spence on Schelling
- McFadden on Part D
- Four New Members
- Ec 10 Update
- Prescott on Globalization
- Frank on Health Care
- The Changing Face of Government
- Prediction Markets
- Paul Volcker signs up
- From the Helpdesk
- Littauer Lament
- Climate Change Commentary
- Rogoff on the Dollar
- Erp
- Phelps on Europe
- Vickrey's Ghost
- The Road Ahead
- Famous for Being Famous
- Jesse Shapiro
- The Secret to Happiness
- Not an Oxymoron
- Sometimes, Economists Agree
- Clinton on Energy Policy
- Mushroom Research
- Must See TV
- Mitchell on Retirement
- Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe
- FDR Revisited
- More on Inequality
- Applebaum signs up
- Two Edifying Graphs
- The Morality of Rising Inequality
- Lucas on Growth
- George Bush is almost a Pigovian
- Milton Friedman must be smiling...
- Pigou in Pictures
- The Dems on Trade
- Furman signs up
- Lindsey on Unions
- Corruption Travels
- Goolsbee on the Penny
January 2007
- Leonhardt on Prizes
- Rodrik
- Central Bankers as Celebrities
- Hassett signs up
- Milton Friedman Day
- Gliberalism
- Paul Mulshine signs up
- Hayek, Picture Book Edition
- Cruel Ironies
- Krugman on Friedman
- Krauthammer in the Club
- Frum on the SOTU
- POTUS: Closet Pigovian?
- The Pigou Club on NPR
- Cowen on Inequality
- On Charitable Giving and Foreign Aid
- Alternative to the Pigou Club
- What makes a person liberal or conservative?
- "a step in the right direction"
- Growth, Well Illustrated
- Post on the Bush Health Plan
- Pigou Club News
- How to Choose a Textbook
- Podcast
- You say potato, I say...
- Mac or PC?
- The Secret to Investment Success
- Richard Musgrave
- John Taylor's New Book
- Bush Health Proposal
- Why Econ Teachers Must Try Harder
- Five Minutes to Midnight
- Tribe on Obama
- Bernanke on the Fiscal Gap
- A Few Things to Read
- Robert Samuelson signs up
- Humility aside...
- Carbon Tax Coming?
- Ray joins the Club
- MLK Day
- New Taxes in Massachusetts
- Will the Fed become less independent?
- Dingell vs CBO
- Wessel on Global Poverty
- This blog will not be undersold!
- Internships
- The Power of Choice
- Rising Stars
- Fame is so fleeting
- The California Health Care Plan
- Minimum wage vs EITC
- Predicting Grad Student Success
- Federal Tax Progressivity: Just the Facts
- Criminals respond to incentives
- No gazebo left behind
- Mission Accomplished
- The Akerlof-Friedman Team
- 2007 = 1914?
- Mankiw vs Bush
- What I'm reading
- A Few Things to Read
- Publish or Perish
- Spence on the Trade Deficit
- Note to Debbie
- What I'm reading
- The Diminishing Role of Energy Prices
- Education and Health
- Passports for Sale
- Taxpayers respond to incentives
- Life at the Top
- Theater Recommendation