articles for economics blog

What do we mean when we call an idea or policy ‘neoliberal’? Does the term signify anything other than trends which are simply embedded in the process of capitalist develo...

http://ppesydney.net/once-more-into-the-neoliberal-breach/

It is long past time for a presidential debate in which the candidates thoroughly address the most pressing science-related topics, says the non-profit group ScienceDebate.org...

http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/QZ2zDSfacjA/207892

Global markets are in a "panic" [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/business/dealbook/china-shanghai-stocks-fall.html] this week, concerns are mounting about the possibility of...

http://www.charismanews.com/world/54320-is-a-coming-economic-crisis-inevitable

Robert VerBruggen says he's always had a libertarian view of drug policy: legalize 'em all. We'd get less incarceration, less gang and cartel violence, and an end to the war o...

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/oxy-epidemic-shows-what-happens-when-addictive-drugs-are-easily-available

This is a blog examining the use of signaling in applications that provide recommendations as a use case for graph databases. After reading books like “Freakonomics,” writ...

http://www.objectivity.com/peacocking/

There seems little doubt that recent volatility and uncertainty caused some to delay marketing decisions. It seems the recent market crash has pushed commercial producers to t...

http://beefmagazine.com/blog/managing-risk-more-important-ever

[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2182588]The motivation for this post is to respond to commentators--@Joshua [http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2015/12...

http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2016/1/3/enough-already-vs-can-i-have-some-more-pls-science-comprehen.html

Yesterday’s post had some of the new books being published by university presses in the months ahead. Here are the forthcoming titles from some other publishers. This select...

http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2016/01/forthcoming-economics-books-for-2016-part-2/

Naturally, everybody has made a New Year’s Resolution to read more economics books. Here are some forthcoming highlights. I’m starting with the university presses, and as ...

http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2016/01/books-to-look-forward-to-in-2016-part-1/

OUR TOP TEN blog POSTS BY READERSHIP IN 2015. This post was originally posted [http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/bill-easterly-and-denial-inconvenient-truths]  [http:...

http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/4-2015-bill-easterly-and-denial-inconvenient-truths

In an interview with the WSJ's CIO blog, Lawrence Lessig proposes that the existence of cryptographic tools that allow for "zero-knowledge" data-querying, combined with the p...

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/31/lessig-on-how-the-economics-of.html

Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse blog Did you know that there are 5 “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have exposure to derivatives contracts that is...

http://www.rightsidenews.com/us/economics/financial-armageddon-approaches-u-s-banks-have-247-trillion-dollars-of-exposure-to-derivatives/