Anti-Dismal

As the US economy slows people from Larry Summers to Martin Feldstein are calling for a fiscal stimulus while Alex Tabarrok is against. N...

Roger Kerr asks Can The Media Help Promote Economic Literacy? in a column in the Otago Daily Times on Friday 11 January 2008. Kerr points ...

In an article in the New Zealand Herald , John Minto, spokesperson for Global Peace and Justice in Auckland, shows he completely misunderst...

The latest econblog rankings are out. Freakonomics at 1, Marginal Revolution at 2 and Greg Mankiw's Blog at 3. Anti-Dismal, at ........

Arnold Kling responds to my post 1500 year old markets with Truck and Barter or Bandits? Kling argues And it could very well be that the d...

From the New York Times comes a report that the ancient Maya civilization may have had a market economy, Scientists using improved methods...

This is the question Michael Munger asks in his essay Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms? T...

Samuel Brittan from his Financial Times article, It is time to jettison the forecasts : "More than 30 years ago, Denis Healey, a UK L...

Stefan Theil, Newsweek's European economics editor, has an article - Europe's Philosophy of Failure - in the January/February 2008 ...

The Becker-Posner Blog ask this question. Becker's comments are here , while Posner responds with Terrorism and Economic Development .

At Organisations and Markets , Peter Klein notes An interesting result from Aaron Schiff’s survey of econo-bloggers (I was a respondent): ...

One problem with state ownership commonly pointed out by economists today is the politicisation of public firms. For example, Sowell (2007) ...

David Friedman writes , Economists, especially those familiar with Gary Becker's analysis of altruism, find the practice of giving gifts...

Don Boudreaux has another excellent message on mercantilist trade policy at Cafe Hayek . Boudreaux writes The January 5th edition of The Ec...

Greg Mankiw points us towards this New York Times article by Alan Blinder on trade and inequality . Blinder writes, Many Americans are jus...

This is the question address by Murray Rothbard in an article which was written in the mid-1950s under the byline "Aubrey Herbert,...

In a recent New York Times article Paul Krugman again suggests that trade with low-wage countries poses real problems for high-wage Americ...

From Dave Barry we get a retrospective of 2007. An Inconvenient Year: Relive the zany antics of Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna and a ca...

Bryan Caplan has a article in the Washington Post on 5 Myths About How Americans Vote . 1. People vote their self-interest 2. Unselfish vot...

The answer given by Peter Klein at Organisation and Markets is " not really ". Klein writes, Thompson (formerly ISI) uses an impr...