Three Cheers for Kevin Hassett

Numerous news reports suggest that President Trump will tap Kevin Hassett to chair the Council of Economic Advisers.  This would be an excel...

You have got to be kidding me

If I did not know the source , I might have thought that this report was from The Onion : The Trump administration is considering changing h...

The Path Ahead on Climate Change

Click here to read an article in today's  NY Times  that I coauthored with Martin Feldstein and Ted Halstead.

Macro/Finance Summer Camp

Grad students and young faculty with interests in macro and finance should consider this opportunity .

Policy Summer Camps

Undergraduates with interests in public policy should consider this opportunity and this one as well .

Econ Theory Summer Camp

Graduate students with an interest in economic theory may be interested in considering  this opportunity .

Good News at Harvard College

The Crimson reports: Economics 10b: “Principles of Economics” is the most popular course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the fourth...

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

My friend Joshua Gans alerts me to the following: The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto is offering to help scholars and s...

The Demise of the CEA?

This is not good news : CEA DOA?… MM hears there’s a chance Trump will simply pass on filling the CEA Chair job that at one point appeared ...