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Paul Ryan Doesn’t Want to Cut Medicare (Yet)
In the often-maligned new Aaron Sorkin TV show, The Newsroom, news anchor Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, takes it upon himself to deliver objective news with Murrow-like commentary as a public...
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Dommage for Catalonia: Identity and Economic Crisis
Since the beginning of the Euro crisis, there has been a substantial amount of analysis, and more than a bit of hand-wringing, over the (arguably counterproductive) resurgence of nationalism among the...
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Re-Reading Juan Linz at the Fiscal Cliff, Contd.
I just saw that another person–in addition to Matt Yglesias and me–thinks Juan Linz’s old writing on the crisis-prone nature of presidential systems is increasingly applicable to the United States,...
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David Cameron and Centrifugal Crises
British Prime Minister David Cameron made waves in late January when he announced plans to hold a referendum on the U.K.’s continued membership in the European Union. Should the Conservatives win...
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Replication: The Heart of Science
There are allegations that the Reinhart and Rogoff paper “Growth in a Time of Debt,” which has informed the current debate about debt and spending as much as any economic paper could hope, is wrong....
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Replication: The Heart of Science, Cont’d
Aha! I knew it. Herndon’s critique of Reinhart and Rogoff “began life as a replication exercise for a term paper in a graduate econometrics class.” More here.
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Survivorship Bias, Sample Sizes, and the Oregon Medicaid Study
I think most coverage of the Oregon Medicaid Study [gated] has been bad. Very bad. I wanted to flag one way that it has been especially bad. We don’t do very much U.S. domestic politics on the...
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What We’re Reading
Fair and balanced: ”Over the past few months, the (state-run) People’s Daily in China has launched a lovely series called “Dishonest Americans.” Supposedly this is meant to give Chinese readers a...
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Bringing the State Back In (to the discussion on redistribution and innovation)
In recent months, the New York Times has published a series of opinion pieces that read like an abbreviated syllabus in comparative political economy. An analytic piece from late April chronicling the...
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What We’re Reading
From the Monkey Cage: John Huber asks whether theory is getting lost in the “identification revolution.” David Ignatius with a great overview of the difficulties with Obama’s new approach to Syria....
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