Physics Perspective

My most recent thing in Bloomberg touches on the Common Core standards for learning. It's amazing how some things that ought to be pret...

Excellent post by Noah Smith examining the question of why so many people who aren't trained economists like to weigh in with views o...

Lars Syll quotes an interesting passage from Hans Albert on the weird use of theoretical abstraction in economics; "weird" as ...

How many economists go out of their way to examine in public what they got wrong in their past views, and what they learned by making such m...

The idea of regulatory capture is a good one, and it’s the principal explanation that academic economists offer for why regulators...

I've just published a response to Paul Krugman's criticism of my recent Bloomberg article on limits to growth. It's over at ...

A few days ago, Paul Krugman made reference in one of his columns to some data compiled by the US Energy Information Administration on ...