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My Final (We Hope!) Word on Paul Krugman and Inflation Predictions

In my last post, I suggested that Paul Krugman has not been entirely candid with his readers on the issue of how economists from the Keynesian versus rival camps predicted the movement of prices as the recession struck. Yes yes, the Austrian purists don’t like to even talk about this stuff, but it’s Krugman’s only […]

Potpourri

I’m just outside Chicago for the Illinois Libertarian Party annual extravaganza. Some “Freedom Karaoke” tonight, followed by lectures tomorrow. In the meantime: ==> Nick Rowe writes another blog post in which he calmly and methodically destroys the foundation of mainstream central banking theory. (You may recall a few months ago Nick showed in a standard […]

Potpourri

==> The WSJ and I are pen pals. ==> Next week on Friday (September 27) I’ll be giving a talk at San Jose State on interventionism in the Austrian tradition. (I’m in California because on Saturday I’m giving the keynote address for a celebration of Mises’ birthday. I still haven’t gotten his present, gah!!) ==> […]

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

You’ve been reading Free Advice for years, but have never had the pleasure of seeing me in person? Well now’s your chance! ==> I will be speaking at the Libertarian Party of Illinois’ convention. On Friday September 20 I’ll be hosting “Freedom Karaoke” (really), and on Saturday September 21 I’m giving a talk on Keynesian […]

Australia’s Carbon Tax: Lessons for the United States

That’s the title of my blog post summarizing the key points from Dr. Alex Robson’s new study (commissioned by IER) on Australia’s experience with a carbon tax. I don’t want to reduce your incentive to follow the link, so I won’t give any quotes here. There are some purdy graphs and everything, so it’s easy […]

My Thoughts on Formalism in Economics

Recently many econobloggers have offered their thoughts on what is often called “mathematics in economics,” but I think is really more about formalistic model building in economics. Here’s a very interesting post that has links to some of the other people in this dispute. For my part, just some scattered observations with no necessarily overarching […]

We’re #75! We’re #75!

According to a new ranking of the “most influential economics blog,” Free Advice weighs in at #75. I couldn’t have done it without both of you. I have to say, though, that I wonder about the method used here to calculate “influence.” According to the site, they use an “input output model” to generate the […]

MIT Economist’s Audacious Paper on Economic Climate Models

I’ve been traveling so much I just realized I haven’t blogged about this yet. I have two IER posts summarizing some of the key points from a forthcoming paper (in the September issue of the Journal of Economic Literature) that is surprisingly scathing in its treatment of the “social cost of carbon” estimates coming out […]