At the end of August, 2023, Marc Tessier-Lavigne (MTL) resigned his position as President of Stanford University. Jerry Yang, Chairman of the Stanford Board of Trustees, summarized the situation in his July 19, 2023, statement. The Scientific Panel created to investigate MTL made had three conclusions. First, they “did find evidence that some members of […]
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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
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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
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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
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I have documented errors in economics papers and pointed out the arguments for why economists say they can’t do better. In a real science, authors would fix errors others have found before publishing their paper. Not in economics. In 2001, I became aware of a working paper version of “Equilibrium Welfare and Government Policy with
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