• OPINION

  Middle East migrants give US a boost

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 26/07/2017

  » A little over a week ago, Stanford University mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died aged 40 after a battle with cancer. In that short lifetime, she accomplished more than most of us ever will. Mirzakhani was one of the world's greatest mathematicians -- a recipient of the Fields Medal, maths' highest honour.

• OPINION

  Economists in the age of Trump

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 12/01/2017

  » Economists are going to have to approach things a bit differently if they want to stay relevant in the Trump age. Research is going to become more important. Some humility wouldn't hurt. And they should look someplace other than the federal government to test their ideas.

• OPINION

  How to fill the void once Trump kills off the TPP

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 01/12/2016

  » The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would have created trade links between the US, Japan and a number of other Asian countries, is dead. Donald Trump has vowed to kill the pact on his first day in office. That won't be a hard promise to keep, as the trade deal was already effectively dead -- Mr Trump's move is just a flourish.

• OPINION

  Economists face reality of figures

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 12/12/2016

  » Economics has always had to grapple with questions of moral philosophy. Unlike most natural sciences, econ deals directly with issues of government and social policy.

• OPINION

  Kudlow is a troubling economics adviser for Trump

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 21/12/2016

  » Donald Trump is reportedly close to picking Larry Kudlow to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. This will doubtless annoy many economists and policy wonks because Mr Kudlow isn't an economist -- he didn't even major in econ in college. He's an econ commentator, much like me, but without the academic training.

• OPINION

  Dumbing down of education policy is a very bad sign

  News, Noah Smith, Published on 22/09/2015

  » Most people who follow news from Japan will be paying attention to the economy, or possibly to the fist-fight that broke out in the Diet over security policy. But there was a huge and very worrying change in Japanese education policy that somehow hasn't received much public notice. 

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