Urbanomics

Arguably the most important macroeconomic debate of present times is whether inflation is transitory or persistent. Emerging signals and the...

1. The Economist has a fascinating survey of the harmful effects of  occupational licensing in the US. Sample this, In 1950 one in 20 ...

The breakdown of the Philips curve relationship between inflation and unemployment has been among the major casualties of recent macroecon...

Lars Syll has a nice post with several interesting links on the ongoing debate on the "intellectual regress" in macroeconomics....

Noah Smith identifies four different versions of macroeconomics and feels that the formal academic macroeconomics has failed everyone, ...

John Maynard Keynes said, "When facts change, I change my views. What do you do sir?" The latest adherent to this appears to be ...

Most often the long-term economic health of nations is about getting several basic things right. But unfortunately, when in trouble, the se...

Dylan Matthews (via MR) provides a short history of modern macroeconomics and this nice family tree of the subject.

In four years of reflection and rather intense involvement with this financial crisis, not a single aspect of dynamic stochastic general equ...

Mark Thoma is spot on in this passionate assessment of what ails the modern economic system, "It's distribution, not production th...

The biggest macroeconomic challenge now is to manage a recovery from the stubbornly persistent economic slowdown. But a fierce ideological b...

The big macroeconomic debate of our times is over whether economies facing the Great Recession should indulge in more fiscal and monetary ex...

As the debates on monetary and fiscal policy options during the sub-prime crisis and Great Recession have shown, macroeconomic theories can ...

The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the Great Recession have questioned several underlying assumptions of modern macroeconomics. Paul Krugman ...

Food for thought for the new year. Late last year, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) invited social scientists to document the grand...

Ben Bernanke's recent speech has set-off heightened speculation about a second round of quantitative easing (QE) being round the corne...