He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in ...

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his ...

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For Barack Obama, the Great Foreboding is both an enormous burden and a splendid opportunity. We are suffering from more than depressed retail sales, stock prices and production. Americans have ...

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott (W. W. Norton, 385 pp., $28.95) Macroeconomics has come a long way in the last century. We’ve learned a lot about the forces ...

The writer sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years.