CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

The United States, like most places, an ambivalent view of big business. When big firms are making high profits, we are concerned that they ...

Uwe Reinhardt had the remarkable skill that even when he was discussing a subject where you felt that you already knew a lot, he offered the...

There's a long-standing controversy over whether those who donate a kidney should be able to be paid for doing so. Whatever one's vi...

One of those things that "everyone knows" is that continued technological progress is vital to the continued success of the US eco...

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has "determined that China is a Currency Manipulator"  (with capital letters in the press release...

A group of recent research studies have argued that "markups" are on the rise. As one of several prominent examples, a study by Ja...

For the later decades of the 20th century, the most common source of data for economic studies was government surveys and statisticians. The...