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The Winter 2020 issue ( vol. 34, no. 1 ) of the Journal of Economic Perspectives contains an article that looks at The Consequences of Trea...

From the IEA in London comes their annual review of the last year: Find out in our round-up of 2019, who the IEA’s Director General Mark ...

" The Theory of the Firm: An overview of the economic mainstream " https://www.routledge.com/The-Theory-of-the-Firm-An-overview-o...

Tyler Cowen (Economics professor, George Mason U.) joins Dave to discuss his new book “Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free...

There has been, not too surprisingly, much discussion of the government's idea of a compulsory 'gun buyback' scheme, see for exa...

From History Twins Podcast comes this interview with Dr. Stephen Davies of the IEA involving topics from the Norman Conquest all the way t...

The Journal of Economic Literature , a journal of the American Economic Association , sets out to fulfil the following policy: Our policy ...

An interesting, if somewhat counterintuitive, question. One could expect that a firm with more managerial ownership would be worth more sinc...

The Cato Institute Human Freedom Index is out for 2018. The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on...

From the History of the World podcast comes these two podcasts on the development and spread of farming.

From the Cato Institute comes this audio of an interview of Peter J. Boettke by Caleb O. Brown about Boettke's new book on F. A. Hayek...

If you, or your students, are looking for somewhere to publish your unsurprising results think about the new journal Series of Unsurprising ...

There is a new NBER working paper out on The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unkn...

A new working paper looks at the effects of the forced removal of Jewish managers affected the performance of firms in Nazi Germany. The is ...

Professor Peter Boettke has been talking to a number of people about his new book, F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Phil...

Stephen Kotkin talks about his new book Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 . In 1941, history’s largest, most horrific war ever broke o...

In the latest issue of  Insights from the New Zealand Initiative Matt Burgess writes on the problems he's been having with the "n...

The Journal of Economic Literature , a journal of the American Economic Association , sets out to fulfil the following policy: Our policy ...

When people abandon a country in droves, it is rarely a sign of a healthy economy. 2.3 million Venezuelans (7% of the population) have fle...

Using data on Portuguese firms this new working paper looks at the relationship between competition and firm productivity. And, not too surp...