Noahpinion

Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack !  Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpinion.substack.com/ Thanks for read...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/noahpinion-has-moved-to-new-website.html

Rabbits make great friends. Unfortunately, rabbits are not as popular of a pet as they ought to be, thanks to two big misconceptions. Let's start out by busting these myths. MYTH #1: RABBI...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/rabbit-good-friend-or-how-to-take-care.html

I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause of poverty in advanced nations. As evi...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-kevin-williamson-is-wrong-about.html

I know sweeping historical analogies are silly, but I've always been partial to the analogy between the Middle East's recent decades of war and the Thirty Years War of early modern Europe. ...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-middle-eastern-thirty-years-war.html

What is MMT, the heterodox economic theory that has captivated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , made its way into the Green New Deal discussion , and inspired dozens of thinkpieces and critiques...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/examining-mmt-model-in-detail.html

I'm a huge fan of living abroad, and I think many more Americans should do it. Living in a big, rich country with relatively few other countries nearby, Americans don't tend to travel over...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/where-should-americans-live-if-they.html

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm focused on the future of work. In this guest post, he explains what he thinks is wrong with the way the "ride sharing" companies tr...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/guest-post-roy-bahat-on-uber-lyft-and.html

Usually, Bloomberg Opinion understandably does not want me to repost my Bloomberg articles at this blog. But they made an exception for my Alternative Green New Deal plan. So here it is. ...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-proposal-for-alternative-green-new.html

If you do not read "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium ," by Martin Gurri, you will not be sufficiently prepared for the world to come. Well, you pr...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/book-review-revolt-of-public-by-martin.html

"He was ugly on the outside, and once you got past that you found the true ugliness on the inside." - Wesley Yang, "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho" Wesley Yang is not here to make you feel com...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/book-review-souls-of-yellow-folk-by.html

Tyler was good enough to give me a review copy of his new book, "Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals ", so here is my review! This...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/book-review-stubborn-attachments-by.html

YIMBYism is the idea that cities need to build more housing in order to relieve upward pressure on rents. In Northern California, where I live, YIMBYs tend to get into fights with progressiv...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/yimbyism-explained-without-supply-and.html

Now is a GREAT time to travel to Japan. The country has really opened up, thanks to Abenomics, a weak yen, and the impending 2020 Tokyo Olympics. New technology has also made it a lot easier...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/noah-smiths-japan-travel-guide.html

"Hey, there ain't no space between us!" - a flight attendant who saw me reading this book This is a very important book about a very important topic (segregation and race relations). It...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/book-review-space-between-us.html

I'm going to do the inadvisable, and argue with Brad DeLong. Hopefully this will turn out OK, since it's in response to Brad doing the inadvisable and arguing with Paul Krugman (thus breakin...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/delong-vs-krugman-on-globalization.html

Bryan Caplan is one of the most enthusiastic proponents of the signaling theory of education, and this theory plays an important role in his new book, "The Case Against Education ". But I've...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/sheepskin-effects-signals-without.html

I've sworn off macro-bashing . I said what I had to say. And I'm seeing lots of young macro people doing good stuff . And the task of macro-method-criticizing has been taken over by people w...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-cackling-cartoon-villain-defense-of.html

So, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize , which is pretty awesome. If you've read Thaler's memoir , you'll know that it was a long, hard, contentious fight for him to get his ideas accepted b...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/defending-thaler-from-guerrilla.html

There's a particular style of argument that some conservative economists use to dismiss calls for government intervention in markets: Step 1: Either assert or assume that free markets work...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/handwaving-on-health-care.html

On Twitter, I wrote that I disagreed with Brad's ideas about speech on college campuses . Brad then requested that I write my ideas up in the form of a DeLong Smackdown. So here we go. Br...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/speech-on-campus-reply-to-brad-delong.html

I recently wrote a fairly well-received Twitter thread about how the cyberpunk sci-fi of the 1980s and early 1990s accurately predicted a lot about our current world. Our modern society is ...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-we-didnt-get.html

Every so often, I see a news story or tweet hyping the fact that a modest but non-negligible percent of Americans said some crazy or horrible thing in a survey. Here are two examples: 1. "...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-margin-of-stupid.html

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the a16z podcast (a16z stands for Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm). The topic was free trade, and the other guest was Russ Roberts ...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/a16z-podcast-on-trade.html

Via Tyler Cowen , I see that Ljungqvist and Sargent have a new paper synthesizing much of the work that's been done in labor search-and-matching theory over the past decade or so. This is...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/realism-in-macroeconomic-modeling.html

In a recent essay about the racial politics of the Trump movement, Ta-Nehisi Coates concluded with a warning: > It has long been an axiom among certain black writers and thinke...

http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/an-american-whitopia-would-be-dystopia.html