Reviving Economics

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

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Crowding Out And Its Relation To Bullshit

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A topic I've been hearing from some of my conservative friends is a refrain often found in mainstream macroeconomic textbooks - crowding...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

The True US Debt Burden

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In macroeconomics, it is often taught that that the US debt burden (ie., the metric we should gauge how concerned we should be about the nat...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

How Classical Economics Misleads On "Government Debt"

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The classical model is mandatory reading for most macroeconomics classes.  I teach it because I have to, but I teach it in a way that the ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

"Gender Gap"

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The gap exists, but is it a problem?  Women make 20+% less than men depending on what study you point to.  Ok.  So what.   Just saying it, d...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Krugman - Still pacing the halls of his ignorant tower.

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Rather that me attempting to write a long post about Paul Krugman's lack of understanding endogenous money, I'll let Naked Capitalis...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

"Price Gouging": Both Sides Get It Wrong

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I was reading my facebook feed recently and someone mentioned something about how firms that price gouge (like gas stations) are shameful, e...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Part Time for Economics Reasons: Hardly Obamacare

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The quacks are out in force suggesting that our economy is undergoing a transformation whereby we have less full-time workers and more peopl...
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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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