Whither Economic Growth? Finance & Development, March 2017, Vol. 54, No. 1 – http://www.imf.org/ Nicholas Crafts
U.S., European Economies and the Great Recession Monday, February 27, 2017 Thinkstock/Jupiterimages By Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Economist, and Maria Arias, Senior Research Associate As the U.S. ... Read More »
Inconvenient Facts Kermit L. Schoenholtz and Stephen G. Cecchetti February 27, 2017 – http://www.moneyandbanking.com/
China’s Continuing Credit Boom Jeff Dawson, Alex Etra, and Aaron Rosenblum Debt in China has increased dramatically in recent years, accounting for roughly one-half ... Read More »
Bubbles for Fama Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, Yang You NBER Working Paper No. 23191Issued in February 2017NBER Program(s): AP CF IFM We evaluate Eugene Fama’s claim that ... Read More »
Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades Nathan Nunn 27 February 2017 – http://voxeu.org/ Evidence suggests that Africa’s slave trades played an important ... Read More »
Inequality and economics: Tony Atkinson’s enduring lessons Andrea Brandolini 27 February 2017 – http://voxeu.org/ Sir Tony Atkinson, the doyen of inequality economics, passed ... Read More »
Farewell to Kenneth Arrow, a Gentle Genius of Economics My mother’s brother, the Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow, died this week at the age of ... Read More »
Timothy TaylorWasteful Health Care Spending Thursday, February 23, 2017 – http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.hu/