Capitalism and Freedom

Financial Times reports ( link ) on the new measure of poverty proposed by economists from Oxford University. The authors suggested the modi...

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ( link )

Ever since the original proposition by a 19th century German economist Adolph Wagner, Wagner's law has undergone significant theoretical...

Greg Mankiw ( link ) and David Leonhardt ( link ) have opened a debate on whether govenrment policymakers should levy a tax on soda and othe...

In WSJ, Vaclav Klaus, the president of Czech Republic, draw important conclusions from the long-term economic sustainability of the Eurozone...

Gary Becker ( link ) and Richard Posner ( link ) have initiated an interesting debate on low economic growth as the main macroeconomic conce...

The OECD Factblog highlighted a comparison of tax burden across the OECD countries. The main findings of the comparison is that overall tax ...

The $140 billion rescue package to Greece is a milestone in the European Monetary Union. A lively debate on recent macroeconomic imbalances ...

Urska Zagar posted two very interesting empirical articles ( here and here ) about the connections between corruption, economic freedom and...

Source: Office of Budget and Management (2010)

Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently published quarterly productivity and costs figures in the US nonfarm business sector ( link ).

NY Times recently reported on the agreed financial rescue assitance to Grecce from EMU (€110 billion) and IMF ($145 billion). Alongside Irel...

Here ( link ) is an article by Barry Eichengreen discussed in the previous post.

Barry Eichengreen wrote a thorough defence of China's exchange rate policy response to the global demands for letting the renmimbi appre...

Here's a brief Sunday reading list on the issue of China's exchange rate and US manufacturing jobs. Simon J. Evenett and Joseph Fran...

I published a brief analysis ( link ) for the European Enterprise Institute , discussing a pattern of a growing income differential between ...

Gary Becker ( link ) and Richard Posner ( link ) opened an intense debate on the issue of a growing US income inequality since 1980s onwards...

Dan Mitchell wrote an interesting op-ed in NY Post ( link ) concerning the prospects of adopting a European-style value-added tax (VAT) in t...

From BLS ( link ): " Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in March, and the unemploymentrate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. B...

The Economist published a fascinating overview ( link ) of the macroeconomic indicators in Europe's most vulnerable economies in the cur...