Writing lesson, comment on Tom Friedman

 Don't piss people off unless you have to. Over at Substack.  from The Grumpy Economist https://ift.tt/FV6MgEu

Argue Honestly in the Claudine Gay Affair

 Post over at Substack . Firing Gay over plagiarism will not fix Harvard.   from The Grumpy Economist https://ift.tt/yz2OTBf

Conti on the future of universities

 A new post over at Substack, a nice essay by Greg Conti on the future of universities.  from The Grumpy Economist https://ift.tt/GnvXCs...

A Kind Word for the Fed

 This is my first post over at Substack. Follow me here  and let me know if it isn't working.  The post is in praise of interest on res...

Politics by Law

Colorado's Supreme Court kicks Trump off the ballot (WSJ). I wrote earlier forecasting constitutional crisis with  next election. Lega...

Bond risk premiums -- certainty found and lost again

This is a second post from a set of comments I gave at the NBER Asset Pricing conference in early November at Stanford.   Conference agenda ...

Time for a new (?) theory of regulation

What's the basic story of economic regulation?  Econ 101 courses repeat the  benevolent dictator theory of regulation: There is a ...

A Vision for the University of Pennsylvania

A group of faculty at Penn have written A Vision for a New Future of the University of Pennsylvania  at  https://pennforward.com/ .  They en...

Sociology Meetings

When Jukka Savolainen wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal  I couldn't quite believe it, so I had to go look. Indeed, on the websit...

New-Keynesian models, a puzzle of scientific sociology

This post is from a set of comments I gave at the NBER Asset Pricing conference in early November at Stanford.   Conference agenda here . My...

The Income Tax Paradox

The Supreme Court is hearing a case with profound implications for the income tax. WSJ editorial here  and good commentary from Ilya Shapiro...

FTPL news: discount and Economist list

  Just in time for the holidays, the perfect stocking stuffer -- if you have really big stockings. 30% discount on Fiscal Theory of the P...

Pro Dollarization

With President Milei's election in Argentina, dollarization is suddenly on the table. I'm for it. Here's why.  Why not? A stan...