Economics Roundtable
NOTICE 4/30/18
The Economics Roundtable is back. The technical problem that has limited the set of blogs has been resolved. The RSS feed is, however, still not working.
Flushing caches will likely cause some old posts to show up for a day or two.
Employment as a Percentage of Population
The graph below shows employment as a fraction of population for people over 16 years old.
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March 2017 Payroll Employment
Payroll employment has not grown impressively since 2000. Some baby-boomers retired, but that does not totally account for this graph.
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May 2014 Payroll Employment
After 76 months, we finally got back to the prerecession level of payroll employment.
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Graph-of-the-Year Candidates
Donald Marron likes European interest rates. Click on the image to get a bigger version. Can you find three distinct subperiods?
Brad DeLong favors the U.S. gdp gap.
Crooked Timber
"Out of the CROOKED TIMBER of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Here were are, at the edge of the Brexit precipice, and I find myself disagreeing with friends about Jeremy Corbyn and his attitude towards it. It is surprising that, with three months to go, we don’t actually know what that attitude is. Some people think he’s playing a long game, ...
Today I sent off the corrected proofs of Economics in Two Lessons to the publishers, Princeton University Press #PrincetonUPress. They won’t look at it until New Year, but it doesn’t matter. The book is done, and I can sit down to Christmas dinner with the family knowing it’s off my ...