Jacob Hacker is back with revised estimates on family income volatility (ht Mark Thoma ). In his earlier work he found a marked increase i...

Robert Frank's NY Times column on using Pigovian taxes as an "efficient" way to deal with the negative externalities of gas...

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The Conventional wisdom on deflation is that it is economically harmful and should be avoided at all costs. Consequently, no central bank e...

Mark Thoma points us to a paper by Jonathan Gruber and Daniel Hungerman titled " The Church vs. the Mall: What Happens When Religion...

Adding to the ongoing discussion of reserve currency status, Harold James warns the Euro constituents it is not easy hosting the main reser...