mainly macro

I gave a short talk yesterday with this title, which takes some of the main points from my paper in the  OXREP 'Rebuilding Macro'...

Noah Smith has a good piece on what seems like the never ending stream of popular articles in the UK slagging off economics (or economist...

When I wrote about why the BBC should treat a clear consensus in economics the same way as it now treated climate science, I got a number o...

Mainly for economists Ever since I started blogging I have written posts on macroeconomic methodology. One objective was to try and ...

I knew when I wrote this post some economists would not like it. These are economists who locate themselves outside the mainstream: heterod...

Mainly for economists Brad DeLong asks why the New Keynesian (NK) model, which was originally put forth as simply a means of demonstra...

Mainly for macroeconomists or those interested in economic methodology. I first summarise my discussion in two earlier posts ( here and he...

Macroeconomics tells you to (temporarily) raise, not cut, government spending when we have a recession caused by deficient demand and inter...

Where I argue that mainstream economics should think about the methodology of their subject more, but that to study this methodology it is...

Dear Professor Diamond Thank you for sending your paper ‘National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model’ to the American Economic Review...

For economists, and those interested in methodology Tony Yates responds to my comment on his post on microfoundations, but really just...