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In a speech last week the President of the Minneapolis Fed, Narayana Kocherlakota, made the following rather startling claim: Long-run ...

Back in 1980, Avraham Beja and Barry Goldman published a theoretical paper in the Journal of Finance that explored the manner in which th...

The latest in the series of consistently interesting dialogues between Glenn Loury and John McWhorter has been posted: Among the themes ex...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala believes that sub-Saharan Africa "is on the verge of joining the ranks" of the so-called BRIC nations: What ...

In a recent post on his (consistently interesting) blog, David Murphy questions the value of equilibrium analysis in economics and finance,...

William Easterly has recently argued that contemporary poverty in African nations may largely be accounted for by technological differences...

The renowned mathematician David Blackwell died on July 8 at the age of 91. I first came across Blackwell's name in a widely-cited pape...