Timothy Taylor

"The Wealth of Nations: A Classic of English Literature." Henry Oliver makes the case for Adam Smith as a great writer in a short and readable essay just posted at the Econlog website econlib.org/econlog/the-we…

When Keynes Did Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/26/whe…

The Growth of Big Business: 1900-2020 conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/25/the…

Interview with Erika McEntarfer: Firings and Federal Statistics conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/24/int…

Snapshots of “Cross-Border Financial Centers” conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/18/sna…

The US Postal Service Hits Its Debt Ceiling conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/17/the…

The Wealth of Nations: What’s It all About? conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/16/the…

Interview with Daniel Kuehn about his recent JEP article on early marginalist work by W.E.B. Du Bois--for example, Du Bois was among the first to frame individual labor supply in a labor-leisure tradeoff aeaweb.org/research/du-bo…

Christopher Sims has died

StatGPT: The Dangers of Asking AI about Statistics conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/13/sta…

Canada’s Economic Challenges conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/12/can…

Who is Buying All the Global Debt? conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/11/who…

For some basic intuition on why to use robust standard errors, and why they can lead to smaller standard errors, Uri Simonsohn has your back datacolada.org/133

When Fiscal and Monetary Policy Row Together–and Not conversableeconomist.com/2026/03/10/whe…