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[David Beckworth offers this reply to Robert Murphy:]

In an extraordinary piece

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

Here’s a simple quiz:

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

• Panic of 1792
• P

This segment of “This American Life” is act

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

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

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