stickman's corral

[My new post at the Recon Hub, which I'll repost in full here...] Ashok Rao has a provocative suggestion for stopping the rampant po...

Seriously. I've been reading a lot of (hard) scientific studies for my current dissertation chapter and it is striking how concise the...

Yesterday's post reminded me of a story that encapsulates much of my own feelings about credit rating agencies (and, indeed, the naivete...

 [Rather irritatingly, I wrote the below post at the end of last week and had been meaning to publish it on Monday. Unfortunately, I got sno...

Some background first: South Africa's power market is utterly dominated by (a) coal and (b) Eskom, the parasitical parastatal monopoly....

I used to be an avid reader of Joe Romm's " Climate Progress " blog. However, my enthusiasm has waned dramatically over the ye...

Seeing as it is very de jour to comment on this sort of thing in the econ blogosphere, here is a quick personal take: I know that this ye...

The subject line is taken from an email sent around my department by one of the finance profs. Here's the email itself: A curiosity: I...

Chris responded  last week to my previous post on the empirical (ir?)relevance of ABCT . I've been too busy to reply properly until now....

A new study by Lester and Wolff (2013) , hereafter L&W,  is set to cause a bit of a stir in Austrian circles. [HT: Daniel Kuehn] The...

In a bid to get back to regular blogging, below is a comment that I've just left under a Daily Maverick  column by Paul Berkowitz, e...

3:59.4 Roger Bannister's four laps of the Iffley Road Track on 6 May 1954 have been immortalised in the annals of sporting lore and hu...

Eric Rauchway has a post over at Crooked Timber  that's generating a fair bit of interest, since it compares real economic growth and in...

Chris has responded  to my previous post , which he frames as a criticism of his research. I should state upfront that this does not strike ...

Following an email exchange with Dan Kuehn and Jon Catalán , I decided that it was finally time to write up a review for Agnar Sandmo's...

As promised, here is an interactive Excel spreadsheet showing how utility changes in a debt-financing scenario versus the laissez faire case...

Since joining this debate, I have consistently argued that deficit financing is no less sustainable than taxation if economic growth is at...

Bob Murphy and another commentator have left some interesting observations underneath my last post . They basically want to distinguish betw...