CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Say that you are someone who believes strongly that human-driven emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases are leading to substantial c...

Since 1986, my actual paid job (as opposed to my blogging hobby) has been Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives . The jour...

Luigi Zingales may seem like an unlikely person to ask, "Does Finance Benefit Society?" When he critiques the social benefits of t...

How do minimum wages around world compare, and how have they changed in the last few years? The OECD offers an overview in a May 2015 FOCUS ...

Although the US corporate income tax is an almost continual subject of dispute, most people don't know any details about what kinds of c...

One paradox of income inequality in our time is that although the distribution of income has become more unequal within many countries, from...

When a country runs a trade deficit and imports more than it exports, like the US economy, producers in other countries are by definition re...