Economics

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No Need to Oversimplify Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty, Geography, Economics, Bill Easterly, Paul Collier, Africa, Corruption, Adam Smith, World News

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a constellation of special challenges, with greater or lesser impact in different parts of the region. These challenges should be addressed forthrightly and in an integrated manner.

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Indiana Governor: Cap and Trade Unfair to Hoosiers. Really?

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Mitch Daniels, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey, Economics, Climate Change, Global Warming, Indiana, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

Daniels's argument about cap-and-trade dollars going to social programs that would harm Indiana's economy is specious.

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Must-Read Study: "The Media's Decision to Play the Stenographer Helped Opponents of Climate Action Stifle Progress"

Joseph Romm | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Media, Economics, Global Warming, Green News

One of the country's leading journalists has written a searing critique of the media's coverage of global warming, especially climate economics.

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Three Cheers for Robert E Rubin

Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rhodes College Seidman Award in Economics., Robert E. Rubin, Dwight Eisenhower, Wall Street, Economics, Citigroup, Secretary of Treasury, Politics News

As an Electrical Engineer who has functioned in the business of Television for almost 50 years, it surprises most people that I have been fascinated b...

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Does Bad Economic News Equal Good News For Women?

Claire Shipman and Katty Kay | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Womenomics, Economics, Women's Issues, Economic Recession, Living News

It does. And we call this shift Womenomics: the emergence of a new workforce dynamic that is giving women the power to tailor their work lives to better suit their needs.

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Jack Kemp: Bleeding-Heart Conservative

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, Leadership, Football, Children, Economics, Washington, Common Ground, Conservatism, Congress, Legacy, Black, Bleeding Heart, Republican Jack Kemp, Compassion, Civil Rights, Republican, Conservative, Racism, White, Housing Projects, Housing, Bill Bradley, Political Leader, Development, Poverty, Housing and Urban Development, Partisan, African Americans, Politics News

Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.

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Neurofinance: Gaming the Human Brain?

N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Wall Street has come up with a new twist on "insider trading": brain science. Neuroeconomics and Neurofinance give new meaning to the term "Pandora's Box."

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Energy Efficiency vs. Neoliberal Economics

David Roberts | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Economics, Environment, Resources, Energy, Environmentalism, Green News

We have a problem -- the deterioration of the atmosphere -- that presents us with great urgency, and a solution -- resource intelligence -- that requires our active intervention.

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PhD Economists: 0% Unemployment Rate

Carpe Diem | Mark J. Perry | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Academia, Economics, Phd Economics, Economics Phd, Academia Economics, Business News

Economics has long been called the dismal science. The general economic outlook today is indeed dismal, but that doesn't mean job prospects in the fie...

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Drip Dropping Away

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Conservation, Aging, Consumerism, Beauty, Economics, Recession, Money Saving, Style News

Though I admit to shallowness, cosmetics and toiletries were trappings of my middle class comfort.

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Reliable Sources (and the People Who Love them)

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Obama, Perez Hilton, Economics, Opinions, New York Times, Old Media, Death of Media, Big Thinkers, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Newspaper Business, Media News

I'd rather the Times continue publication of the weekend City section than employ Krugman and other columnists to tell me things I (normally) already agree with.

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Cash for Clunkers, Here and There

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Economics, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Cars, Dianne Feinstein, Fuel Economy, Automobile, Transportation, Green News

A arrives in your driveway with several thousand tons of CO2 emissions embedded in it. So you'd better be sure that there is a big t differential between the mileage of your old car and new one.

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New York Times' Tierney Wrong on "Saving the Planet"

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, John Tierney, Economics, Science, New York Times, Climate Change, Pollution, William Kristol, Green News

Tierney's laissez-faire attitude seem pretty irresponsible. We need a revolution for energy on the scale that the internet was a revolution for information.

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Why Did Financial Journalists Miss the Financial Crisis?

Neena Satija | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Financial TImes, Mad Money, Economics, Lionel Barber, Yale, Newspapers, Jouralists, Financial Journalism, Media News

Financial journalists failed because they're in the same straits that most journalists have been in for a while now: Understaffed and unduly influenced by their revenue sources and by the public.

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The Reverend Billy Position Paper On Banks

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Community Finance, Too Local to Fail, Banks, Economics, Green Banking, Green News

The Reverend will release a new report that shows that there are so many identical bank logos everywhere that New York City children are getting lost walking home!

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How It Was: Fatuosity and the Great Depression

Dan Agin | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Business, Economics, Recession, Great Depression, Fatuosity, Business News

Fatuosity, an archaic term for idiocy, is such a marvelous word it needs rejuvenation in our modern era of buffoon economists, smirking corporate charlatans, and giggling business journalists.

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Economics for Pessimist Dummies

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Economists, Wal-Mart, Economics, Wmt, Pessimists, Dummies, Business News

Today come reports that the gloom and doom peddlers are still at it, looking a gift market in the mouth. The S&P is showing a heartbeat lately. But wait a minute, they say. We're not out of this yet.

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The Un-Malling of America

Bob Giloth | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Suburbs, U.S. Economy, Poverty, Economics, Business, Capitalism, Economy, Business News

"More than 400 of the 2,000 largest malls in the U.S.have closed in the past two years...[I]n the past 12 months, retail sales have dropped an unprece...

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Obama Officials Think Krugman Is Naive: Newsweek's Evan Thomas

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Krugman, Obama Administration, Economics, Krugman Naive, Naivety, Paul Krugman, Obama White House, Economy, Politics News

Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who has the big cover story on the rather prickly relationship between the White House and Paul Krugman, offered a rather surp...

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Libertarian Madness

Ben Cohen | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matt Ridley, Northern Rock, Libertarian, Banks, Economics, Politics News

As a free market ideologue, Matt Ridley should embrace the death of a bad idea -- it is natures way of saying "sorry buddy, you're wrong."

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A Tale of Two Taxes

Robert Stavins | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs, Environmental Policy, Economics, Gas Tax, Taxes, Oil Prices, Oil, Green News

A gas tax increase could make most American households better off, while reducing oil imports, local pollution, urban congestion, road accidents, and global climate change.

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A Family-Friendly Recession?: Cut Hours, Not Jobs

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Shared Work Program, Family Friendly Policy, Women's Careers, Ellen Galinsky, Economics, Breaking News, Forbes Magazine, Glass Ceiling, Cut Hours Not Jobs, Work Share, Recession, Culture of Care, Obama Inaugural Address, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Women's Work, Breaking Living News, Business News

During a recession, gains for women earned through years of effort may be swept away in the undertow of layoffs, when flexibility and diversity efforts suddenly disappear.

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Ford To Get Greener: "We Really Have Lost A Generation" (VIDEO)

wsj.com | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Alan Mulally, Ford, Cars, ECO:Nomics, Green Business, Green Cars, Green Technology, Green News

Ford CEO Alan Mulally says that his company is going to turn it all around to get with the times -- but will it be soon enough? A humbled Mulally spok...

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As Reservoirs Fall, Prices Should Rise

Robert Stavins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Economics, Water, Water Usage, Drought, California Drought, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Water Crisis, Green News

Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available.

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Economic Meltdown or Back to Normal?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Politics, Debt, Financial Meltdown, Wealth, Economics, Inflation, Finance, Money, Stocks, Trade, Economic Crisis, Monetary Policy, Business, S&P, China, Business News