Semi-daily messages and responses to them, related largely to economics and government policy. Personal messages not intended for the group should be sent to larrywillmore@yahoo.com.
Zombie ideas are ideas that refuse to die, no matter how often they are refuted. I was delighted to learn from Steven Landsburg (www.thebigquestions.com) that
The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and Chile) We rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature births) and
[Nearly two weeks ago, the Financial Times published an editorial defending the UK's universal child benefit against demands that it be transformed into a
[Martin Wolf has another excellent column today.] If we are to understand where we are, we must understand where we have been. This is particularly true if we
[Columbia University macroeconomist Edmund Phelps thinks that economic fallacies abound because spokesmen on each side of the "theory wars" ignore past
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