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An Open Letter to the American People...

This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in......

Jean Tirole wins 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics

French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work that has shed light on how governments should regulate powerful companies that dominate markets, the Royal Swedish......

What good are economists, anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a......

Stimulus: To spend or not to spend?

As the House of Representatives prepares for a Jan. 28 vote on the $825 billion Obama fiscal stimulus bill, politicians want to know: How much does boosting government spending or cutting taxes......

Fixing those castles in the air

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost," said Henry David Thoreau, an outstanding American author, poet and philosopher of the 19th century. "That is where they should be,......

Importance of being Krugman

I read Paul Krugman's now much-reproduced column 'Gordon Does Good' in the online New York Times on the morning of October 13. A few hours later, I spoke to a colleague in Bonn and told her about......

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Paul M Friedman

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An Open Letter to the American People...

Jean Tirole wins 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics

What good are economists, anyway?

Stimulus: To spend or not to spend?

Fixing those castles in the air

Importance of being Krugman

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