Capitalism and Freedom

Recently, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) celebrated its 50th anniversary ( link ). The organization was founded in...

In 2009, the median weekly earnings of workers with bachelor's degrees were $1,137. This amount is 1.8 times the average amount earned b...

According to some preliminary estimates ( link ), China's trade balance is on the course for a significant surplus this year. IMF's ...

Carlos Pereira of the Brookings Institution ( link ) has reviewed the dismal productivity growth and the consequent macroeconomic indicator...

A recent paper by Jennifer Hunt ( link ) finds that the increase in foreign-born graduates strongly contributes to the innovation in the Uni...

In the recent edition of Yale Economic Review ( link ), Ed Glaeser, Matthew Kahn and Jordan Rappaport ponder one of the most difficult and ...

An intriguing empirical finding from the institutional perspective of economic development from Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. R...

Dani Rodrik argues ( link ) that political dictatorship is damaging to economic growth since democracies not only outperformed countries wit...

Source: The Economist, Sovereign Debt: Wiggle Room , September 2, 2010 ( link )

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 ).