Reviving Economics

Dedicated to dismantling the Ivory Tower and attempting, in some small way, to help revive the social science of economics.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Or perhaps economics will remain a discipline that forgets most of what it once knew and allows itself to be continually distracted, confuse...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Changing the NCAA

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I would suggest that Becker / Posne r doesn't go far enough.  To me, we need to call a spade a spade and recognize that the really good ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Reviving Macroeconomics

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I hope Prof. Stiglitz is correct that there can be some se rious movement on reform (or reviving as I prefer).  But, to write the entire ar...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

When Jobs Stats Are Meaningless - and When the Media Confuses

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...Typically always true from November - January imop. But this one is particularly f***ed up.  News is reporting that according to BLS o...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

You Can Believe in the Terribleness of Bubbles and Bursts, or That We Are Facing Mainly Cyclical Unemployment Only, But Not Both

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Today I'm giving a lecture on unemployment - and a portion of it will be devoted to this year's hot debate about whether or not our ...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Brad Delong, in denouncing unexciting alternatives, promotes the same unexciting alternatives...

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Brad posts about the Obama administration's apparent lack of exciting ideas.  In it, he promotes 4 ways the administration could have ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Is Education the Key?

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Hunter Richards recently asked me to comment on an article post entitled " Technology, Unemployment and Our Children's Future...
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Garth A Brazelton
Indianapolis, IN
I work for the Indiana Economic Development Corporation as the Director of Operations and Business Systems, and I teach macroeconomics at Indiana University (Indianapolis). Previously, I was an Economist at the US DOT in Cambridge, MA. This blog does not represent the opinions of any of these organizations.
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