Author: Noah Smith

About three years ago, someone asked me why, with my physics undergrad background and a PhD in economics, I had decided to become a professional […]

The photo above is not from China; it’s from Japan. In the 1970s, Daiei was Japan’s top retailer. But after Japan’s asset bubble burst around […]

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m pretty ambivalent about trade barriers as an economic policy. On one hand, I think targeted tariffs and other trade […]

For many years, I was a big proponent of the idea that increased market power was harming the US economy in various ways. In the […]

I get a lot of flak from progressives for being a “both sides” kind of commentator. I spend a fair amount of time criticizing leftist […]

Drone warfare has been a fascination of mine for a very long time. When I read Daphne du Maurier’s “The Birds” as a kid, I […]