ECONOMY

Singapore’s Pay Model Isn’t India’s: Market Wages vs. Civil-Service Rents
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 27, 2025
In my post How High Government Pay Wastes Talent and Drains Productivity I pointed to evidence that high government compensation

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Paul Krugman and I
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- . August 24, 2025
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use

Keep Politics Out of Data
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- . August 21, 2025
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use

The Danger from Japan
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- . August 18, 2025
Answer: America won. Every generation launches a new competitor to America and the people who don’t like capitalism and America’s

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Economics Teaching Conference
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- . August 15, 2025
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Our Dollar, Your Problem
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . August 12, 2025
I just finished Our Dollar, Your Problem by my Harvard colleague Ken Rogoff. It is a great read for econonerds like

What to Watch (or Not): Ballard, Perfect Days, Billy Joel
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- . August 9, 2025
Ballard (Amazon Prime) — I liked Bosch, so I had high hopes for this spinoff. The core premise—a team of

Genius, Rejected: Emergent Ventures Versus the System
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- . August 6, 2025
Quanta Magazine has a good piece on a 17-year-old student who disproved a long-standing conjecture in harmonic analysis: Yet a paper

The economics of the U.S. auto industry, a brief history
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- . August 3, 2025
From Adam Ozimek: The economic value of the cars being made has climbed substantially through the years. As a result,

Design Your Own Rug!
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- . July 31, 2025
For my wedding anniversary, I designed and had hand-woven in Afghanistan a rug for my microbiologist wife. The rug mixes