At a recent Stanford Senate meeting, President Tessier-Lavigne declared he did not want the Faculty Senate “to set itself up as a thought police.” I also do not want to see anyone at Stanford act as “thought police”, but experiences during my 34 years at Stanford tell me that some people at Stanford do act as “speech …
I just became aware of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative webpage at Stanford. You may not be able to see it if you are not affiliated with Stanford. I would love to post a pdf printout of it but I am sure someone at Stanford would claim I violated some rule. I will report …
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Yesterday a friend of mine told me about economist Claudia Sahm and her blog Stay-at-Home Macro. I suspect all of you know about her blog but if you don’t you definitely should look at it. Claudia’s blog covers many topics including the Fed (her past employer), child tax credits, and inflation. Today’s post “Be the …
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized excellent work in economics. No one will dispute that. However, the Nobel committee did not display the kind of even-handedness we have seen in the past. I remember when the Diamond-Dybvig model was first put forward. It energized discussion of the role of central banks and supported their …
The 2022 Nobel prize in economics will be announced tomorrow, Monday, October 10. Of course, it is not a “real” Nobel prize but rather the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” but I will use the conventional phrase “Nobel prize in economics.” The official name does raise an interesting question. Why …