From Prospect, the relatively new science of human behaviour might also define ethics for us — ethical economics would then emerge from one of the least likely places: economists themselves. Mark Thoma on why politics and economics are a toxic cocktail. Jeffrey Frankel on the economist’s stone. Mark Buchanan on the insupportable equilibrium of economic thought. Steven Horwitz reviews Friedrich Hayek: The Ideas and Influence of the Libertarian Economist by Eamonn Butler. Is Austrian economics too popular for its own good? Stan Tsirulnikov investigates. Neil Irwin on what the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle tells us about the mysteries of macroeconomics. Dylan Matthews goes inside the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, the offbeat economics department that debunked Reinhart-Rogoff. Which (macro)-economists are worth listening to? Dean Baker on worms, pond scum and economists.
