CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

The recovery of the U.S. economy since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009 has been sluggish and weak--and still much better than in...

The basic student experience in many schools is quite similar to what it was a half-century ago. Te school day is divided into periods, each...

For economists, why people vote has  long been a puzzle. After all, why go to the time and trouble of turning up at the polls for any big el...

It's hard for me to care much about the details of t he proposed fiscal year 2015 budget just released by the White House, because no on...

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of a combustible great powers confrontation, the natural reaction of any economist is:...

Anna Jacobson Schwartz is probably best-known today as co-author with Milton Friedman of the 1963 classic, A Monetary History of the United...

A identity is a equation that is true because of the way the terms are defined. Thus, when an economist says that "gross national produ...