The Grumpy Economist

An essay. It's an overview of what a growth-oriented policy program might look like. Regulation, finance, health, energy and environment...

The Wall Street Journal Monday Oct 19 offers a reflection on deflation in Switzerland . "It’s as close to an economic consensus as you ...

A new working paper by that title (pdf).  Some of the main ideas are in a longish post from last August . The fact that inflation is so sta...

Ed Lazear has a nice WSJ oped, " How not to prevent the next financial meltdown ." (Also available here via Hoover .) The main poi...

I talked a bit to Binyamin Applebaum about his article in the New York Times,  Behaviorists Show the U.S. How to Improve Government Operatio...

Deflation returns to Japan. Tyler Cowen has a thoughtful Marginal Revolution post , expressing puzzlment. Scott Sumner discussion here , and...