Oh, hey. That's now. And that's me.

so so good

The government should not intervene in the measles market, I guess.

This might be the most fun I've had in my academic career—trying my hand as a poetry critic as we dig into Martín Espada's poem on the meaning of labor. Plus it's kind of crazy to be appear alongside Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, John Turturro, Natasha Sarin and Betsey Stevenson.

Nine times out of ten when someone writes of “individuals,” they really mean “people,” and their sterile prose both strips the actors in their sentence of their humanity, and creates unnecessary distance between the reader and their subjects

Don't be one of those individuals.

mathing like a madman

Just astonishing that more oxygen was wasted on the 2022-23 recession that never happened than the deepest downturn since the Great Depression.
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We live in extraordinary times.

this is bonkers

Fortunately these facts will transform media reporting on crime and lead politicians to check their rhetoric.

trolling as policy

My favorite thing as a textbook author is helping shine the spotlight even more brightly on great instructors.

six cites to go.

The disjunction between economic fears and reality is astonishing. Have we just stopped talking about reality altogether?

Economics needs better critics.

Inflation is falling, and unemployment is near a fifty year low.

rainbow lorikeet

Lovely to see the Fed so engaged with the best and brightest minds of the time: Franco Modigliani, Jim Tobin, Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson and so many others.

Always so much fun to talk econ with Molly Jong-Fast because she makes me speak English, not econom-ese.