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[David Beckworth offers this reply to Robert Murphy:]

Richard K. Vedder is professor of economics at Ohio University.

In an extraordinary piece

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This segment of “This American Life” is act

Here’s a simple quiz:

For a mayor running for reelection, which situation would cause the most worry?

Leonard Read’s classic “I, Pencil” is a staple of introductory economics classes the world over.

While the real world has switched from defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution plans (e.g.

In 1998 Paul Krugman declared “It’s Baaack” in a silly article heralding the return of the Keynesian liquidity trap, a chimera th

Four years after housing prices peaked the number of foreclosures