Category:Noah Smith

1

• 101ism in action: minimum wage edition

A

• A failed economic theory of everything (Real Business Cycle Theory)
• A Job Is More Than a Paycheck
• A Job Is More Than a Paycheck/dignity
• A Nation’s People Offer the Best Return on Investment
• A Nobel for economics that really works
• A parable of one-way free trade
• Are libertarians ready to embrace a broader notion of freedom?/kinds
• Are macroeconomic methods politically biased?
• Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms

B

• Bangladesh is the new Asian Tiger
• Blockchain Hype Missed the Mark, and Not by a Little

C

• Calm down, Will Wilkinson! Joe Stiglitz is not the problem.
• China Isn’t the Only Reason to Question Free Trade
• Climate change isn't THAT hard: Relax, it's just the end of the world
• College Isn't a Waste of Time
• Craft Brewing as a Model for Helping the Middle Class
• Crypto Cynics Stand to Profit the Most

D

• Do property rights increase freedom? (Japan edition)
• Does mercantilism "work"?
• Don't Count on Tech to Set You Free

E

• Econ 101 No Longer Explains the Job Market
• Economists Are Warming to Government Intervention
• Economists used to be the priests of free markets -- now they’re just a bunch of engineers
• EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary

F

• Faster Growth Begins With a Land Tax in U.S. Cities
• FDR’s New Deal Worked. We Need Another One.
• Finding Better Ideas to Rebuild America
• Free Trade With China Wasn't Such a Great Idea for the U.S.

G

• Growing a Nation Won't Always Grow Its Economy

H

• How 'Keynes' Became a Dirty Word
• How Noah Smith Should Have Criticised Austrian Economics

H cont.

• How the New Classicals drank the Austrians' milkshake
• How the poor can (and should!) save money
• How to Limit Hoarding and Keep America’s Hands Clean
• How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton

I

• I get what you get in ten years, in two days
• In which Steven Landsburg utterly flips out
• Is America's health care underperformance a myth?
• Is economics an excuse for inaction?

L

• LBJ's Great Society Won the War on Poverty
• Libertarianism and the Tamerlane Principle
• Libertarianism's Time Has Come and Gone
• Libertarians embracing public goods, Tim Lee edition
• Libertarians: Only now, at the end, do you understand...
• Libertarians: Only now, at the end, do you understand.../Proxy Army

M

• Markets Don't Work for Everything
• Microfoundations would be nice if we had them
• Military Spending on R and D Is a Boon for the Private Sector
• Monopolies Are Worse Than We Thought
• Monopolies May Be Worse for Workers Than for Consumers

N

• National Health Insurance Might Be Good for Capitalism
• Neither Real, nor Business, nor Cycles
• Noncompete Agreements Take a Toll on the Economy
• Noncompete Clauses Make Your Economy Sick

P

• People Actually Use Food Stamps to Buy More Food
• Private Prisons Are a Failed Experiment
• Public Housing Isn't Wasted on the Poor

R

• Rational Markets Theory Keeps Running Into Irrational Humans
• Republic of Science or Empire of Ideology?
• Revive the Middle Class by Bringing Back Unions
• Robot Takeover Matters Less If We're All Shareholders

S

• Seven principles for arguing with economists
• Should We Trust Economists?

T

• The Best Reason to Protect Workers From Covid-19
• The Case for Low Capital-Gains Taxes Grows Weaker
• The Case for Protecting Infant Industries
• The Choice Isn’t Between Capitalism or Socialism
• The Connection Between Work and Dignity
• The economists' revolt
• The libertarian solution to inequality
• The libertarian solution to inequality/damage
• The liberty of local bullies
• The Man Who Made Us See That Trade Isn't Always Free
• The Market Power Story
• The Promise and Peril of South African Land Reform
• The Shouting Class
• The siren song of homogeneity
• The Virtues and Vices of Econ 101
• The Virtues and Vices of Econ 101/employers
• The War on Poverty was a success
• There's Too Much Red Tape (But Only a Little)
• Try to Answer the Hardest Question in Economics
• Tyler Cowen's anti-Piketty crusade

U

• U.S. Companies Were Hurt by Trade With China Too
• Understanding the Meaning of 'Power'
• Unions Did Great Things for the Working Class

V

• Vast literatures as mud moats

W

• Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
• What ResistCapitalism Gets Wrong
• Why America Stopped Being a Startup Nation
• Why bother with microfoundations?
• Why the 101 model doesn't work for labor markets

Y

• Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes.
• Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without "supply and demand"

Z

• Zoning Reform Alone Won’t Make Housing More Affordable