…environmental protection and economic growth. It boosts the market for energy-efficient products and benefits companies that design appliances that earn the label. A home that decides to buy Energy Star…

…Leisure. Schor explains why “recent bad economic news means it’s time for working less”. Policymakers today can hardly be persuaded, she says, to pursue an economic policy that does not…

…who was a coeditor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control for a while.  Anyway, the policy angle that Flaschel especially came to advocate, along with Proano and Asada…

…strictly economic issues involved here, aside from the political ones, there are three that stick out prominently: ownership, allocation, and distribution. The first may be the most important, or at…

by Joseph Joyce Greece’s Missing Drivers of Growth Analyses and discussions of Greece’s economic situation usually begin—and often end—with its fiscal policy. The policies mandated by the “troika” of the…

…my vote. That may seem unusual because I voted for Obama, and my economic views are probably best described as slightly left center. Now, I’m nobody special, and my endorsement…

…that economic policy and economic thought walks on two legs. Conservative economists hypocritically but strategically embrace both the crowding out arguments for austerity and the projected lump-of-labor fallacy claims against…

…could even rationalize it. You could talk about monetary policy, or, likely, you talk about fiscal policy. We were over-spending all this time, what about exchange-rate policy, what about Chinese…

…and retard its economic development. Meanwhile, in places served by more than one railroad, typically large mid-Atlantic cities, the competing carriers often engaged in price wars, giving those places an…

by Linda Beale The right-wing’s “breadwinner conservatism”–starve the state; support traditional families (only) Many of us who think about tax and economic policy have been confounded by the tendency of…