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Mark Thoma
Eugene, Oregon
Professor of Economics, University of Oregon
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Posted Dec 13, 2019 at Economist's View
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Posted Nov 28, 2019 at Economist's View
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How and why economics forgot Keynes’ warnings on panics - FT Alphaville In a new paper (hat-tip to the University of Washington’s Fabio Ghironi for drawing our attention to it), Nobel Prize winning economist George Akerlof does a brilliant job... Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2019 at Economist's View
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Manufacturing Ain’t Great Again. Why? - Paul Krugman When Donald Trump promised to Make America Great Again, his slogan meant different things to different people. For many supporters it meant restoring the political and social dominance of white people, white... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2019 at Economist's View
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Democracy on a Knife-Edge - Dani Rodrik The failure to protect minority rights is a readily understood consequence of the political logic behind the emergence of democracy. What requires explanation is not the relative rarity of liberal democracy, but its... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2019 at Economist's View
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No, We Don’t “Need” a Recession - J. Bradford DeLong I recently received an email from my friend Mark Thoma of the University of Oregon, asking if I had noticed an increase in commentaries suggesting that a recession would be... Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2019 at Economist's View
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I hope to begin posting again soon. I needed a break. Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2019 at Economist's View
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The Cost of America’s Oligopoly Problem - ProMarket An innovative new study finds substantial, increasing deadweight losses resulting from oligopolistic behavior and points to the important role that startup acquisitions—particularly by large tech firms—played in driving this trend. Helicopter money... Continue reading
Posted Sep 25, 2019 at Economist's View
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How we make decisions depends on how uncertain we are - EurekAlert! A new Dartmouth study on how we use reward information for making choices shows how humans and monkeys adopt their decision-making strategies depending on the uncertainty of information... Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2019 at Economist's View
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Do Immigrants Threaten U.S. Public Safety? - Dallasfed.org Abstract: Opponents of immigration often claim that immigrants, particularly those who are unauthorized, are more likely than U.S. natives to commit crimes and that they pose a threat to public safety. There... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2019 at Economist's View
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I have been traveling and got a bit distracted by shiny objects. Here are a few links (in no particular order): Whither Central Banking? - Lawrence H. Summers & Anna Stansbury In an environment of secular stagnation in the developed... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2019 at Economist's View
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Irving Fisher Demolishes the Loanable-Funds Theory of Interest - Uneasy Money In some recent posts (here, here and here) I have discussed the inappropriate application of partial-equilibrium analysis (aka supply-demand analysis) when the conditions under which the ceteris paribus assumption... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2019 at Economist's View
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Why Rate Cuts Don’t Help Much Anymore - Austan Goolsbee Now that it has finally happened, don’t expect the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited rate cut to make all that much of a difference for the economy. The Invention of Money -... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2019 at Economist's View
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Why Critics of a More Relaxed Attitude on Public Debt Are Wrong - Blanchard and Ubide Both of us have recently developed arguments for a more relaxed attitude toward public debt and deficits (for example, this address by Blanchard at... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2019 at Economist's View
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Posted Jul 20, 2019 at Economist's View
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Why Is Inflation Low Globally? - FRBSF A hot economy eventually boosts inflation. Such is the simple wisdom of the Phillips curve. Yet inflation across developed countries has been remarkably weak since the 2008 global financial crisis, even though unemployment... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2019 at Economist's View
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Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency - Joseph E. Stiglitz Only a fool would trust Facebook with his or her financial wellbeing. But maybe that’s the point: with so much personal data on some 2.4 billion monthly active users, who knows... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2019 at Economist's View
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Opportunity cost, MMT and public spending - Crooked Timber ... In the “chartalist” reasoning underlyng MMT, the fact that governments can issue their own sovereign currency means that there is no need to “finance” public spending by taxation; rather taxation... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2019 at Economist's View
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Notes on Excessive Wealth Disorder - Paul Krugman In a couple of days I’m going to be participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on “excessive wealth disorder” — the problems and dangers created by extreme concentration of income and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2019 at Economist's View
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The Decline of American Journalism Is an Antitrust Problem - ProMarket Weak antitrust enforcement set the stage for Facebook and Google to extract the fruits of publishers’ labor. We won’t be able to save journalism and solve our disinformation problem... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2019 at Economist's View
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Is Labour’s fiscal policy rule neoliberal? - mainly macro That is the charge some on the left, particularly followers a movement called MMT, have laid against Labour's Fiscal Credibility Rule (FCR). MMT stands for nothing very informative, but it is... Continue reading
Posted Jun 14, 2019 at Economist's View
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This time might not be different ~ Antonio Fatas Estimating the probability of a recession over a short horizon has so far proven to be a challenging task for economists. Each cycle looks slightly different from the previous one and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 10, 2019 at Economist's View
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What to Do About China? - J. Bradford DeLong By attempting to "get tough" with China, US President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the extent to which America's star has fallen this century. If the US ever wants to reclaim... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2019 at Economist's View
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After Neoliberalism - Joseph E. Stiglitz For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2019 at Economist's View
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Trump Tantrums the Dems Out of a Trap - Paul Krugman I gotta say, it was very clever of Nancy Pelosi to steal Donald Trump’s strawberries, pushing him over the edge into self-evident lunacy. As everyone knows, Trump stormed out... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2019 at Economist's View
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