Files containing subject forecasting error

For twenty-two years we have peered into a crystal ball trying to discern our economic future. In retrospect, if we could have picked another time to forecast, it would have been from 1970 to 2000 when the economy behaved...well...more predictably. [READ MORE]

A course in regional economics often begins with a deceptively simple question: what is a region? The word is commonly used in the context of politics (the middle-east region), climate (the arctic region), and topography (the Appalachian region). [READ MORE]