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.
[Investors are worried that Greece might default on bonds issued by its government. Harvard economist Ken Rogoff points out that, for Greece, such an event
Early economists and philosophers, such as Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, were serious about the study of happiness. Yet with the rise of quantitative methods
[This is the first instalment of a blog that proposes to teach all of mathematics, in a series of easy lessons starting with pre-school.] I have a friend who
[Surprisingly little has been written on school choice in the Netherlands, despite its long history - 100 years - of equal funding to public and private
[John Kay thinks that a new book by Joseph Stiglitz is the best so far on the global financial crisis.] Stiglitz's account is distinguished by its emphasis on