Economic Freedom in the Alito Draft

I read the draft Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade . I was surprised that the draft so quickly prejudges economic liberty, which I thoug...

Fiscal Histories

Fiscal Histories  is a new paper, a second try at an essay on fiscal theory for the Journal of Economic Perspectives.  The basic concept i...

ECB word salad hubris

The   Speech  by the ECB's Isabel Schnabel, advertised on the official ECB twitter stream  caused a characteristically grumpy outbur...

AEA P&P, a measure of an organization

The American Economics Association papers and proceedings are out. This is a selection of the selection of papers presented at the AEA annua...

Climate finance emperor update

I wrote a review of Stuart Kirk's climate finance speech , which among other things criticized the Dutch Central Bank for putting finger...

The Phillips Curve

Behold the Phillips curve, one more statistical correlation treated as an eternal verity that our inflationary era has just undermined.  ...