Economics Profession
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How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
Sep 27, 2021
“School choice” aimed to block the choice of equal, integrated education for Black families
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Working Paper Series
How Milton Friedman Exploited White Supremacy to Privatize Education
Sep 2021
“School choice” aimed to block the choice of equal, integrated education for Black families
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Bibliometrics or Peer Review for Research Assessment: Is That the Right Question?
May 6, 2021
A low agreement between bibliometrics and peer review at the level of individual article indicates that metrics should not replace peer review at the level of individual article.
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Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
Jan 3, 2021
On the occasion of the ASSA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (Jan. 3-5), Peter Bofinger presents a “10 Best of” Mankiw list
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Young Scholars Want More Voices Heard in Economics
Dec 3, 2020
No one person or perspective holds the key to solving economic problems, says Jay Pocklington of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Affluent Authoritarianism: McGuire and Delahunt’s New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
Nov 2, 2020
New INET research shows once again that it’s large firms and the 1%—not the “median voter”—who drive U.S. policy
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Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities?
Aug 3, 2020
Mainstream economics ignores historical and structural factors by design
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Why We Need Solidarity Economics
Apr 22, 2020
Economists have gone to great lengths to write humans out of economics, pushing self-interest and generally providing two choices—faith in markets or the state.
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Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy?
Jan 31, 2020
How Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
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Working Paper Series
Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy? Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy
Jan 2020
To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology
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Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego
Jan 16, 2020
The AEA and the Crisis of Expertise
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Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”
Jan 3, 2020
A critique of Mankiw’s Macroeconomics
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Learn the Language of Power
Oct 30, 2019
Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.
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How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
Oct 3, 2019
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
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In Defense of Economic Theory
Oct 2, 2019
Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient