CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

The February 2012 issue of Economy and Society is a special issue focused on a theme of "Strategic unknowns: towards a sociology of ign...

Everyone knows that the U.S. spends far more on health care than other countries, but do you know how much more? In 2009, the U.S. spent 17....

Pretty much everything I know about the economics of occupational licensing I learned from Morris Kleiner, a colleague from the days when I ...

Here is a classic problem of cause and effect. Teenagers who give birth are more likely to be from households with lower income levels. Also...

I was hired by Joseph Stiglitz 26 years ago to start a new economics journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives . It took us a year from...

The Spring 2012 issue of my own Journal of Economic Perspectives is now freely available on-line, along with earlier issues back to 1994, c...

The price we pay for energy in part reflects the cost of production. But the primary sources energy involves other costs not captured in the...