Anti-Dismal

The subtitle of Kenneth Rogoff's recent article in the Washington Post says a lot, No More Creampuffs: The Government Is Willing to Let...

Reading Not PC has drawn my attention to the stupid comment made by Peter Leitch that scalpers selling high priced tickets to the Warriors...

Tyler Cowen reviews Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" in the New York Sun . He writes Naomi...

Andy Eggers at the Social Science Statistics Blog writes In a working paper entitled "Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer Review?...

In the current issue of Econ Jounal Watch Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys ask Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Fra...

In 1997 a furor was created a by the publication of John Lott and David Mustard's paper "Crime, Deterrence and Right-to-Carry Conc...

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution on the subject of the The Wisdom of Bailouts , Thanks goodness we bailed out Bear Stearns back in Marc...

Robert Shiller of Yale University talks with the host of EconTalk Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related financial market...

At the Becker-Posner Blog, Richard Posner discusses Prediction Markets and the Election . This post covers mainly the Iowa Electronic Market...

David Zetland has a second guest post at Freakonomics . The topic this time, Oil and Water . Zetland opens by saying Over the past few month...

At Marginal Revolution Alex Tabarrok lives dangerously and tries to explain economics to his mother. He starts by pointing out to her Many...

This comes from a Miami Herald story Airline seeks bald men as walking billboards WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's national air...

Is it any different in New Zealand? (HT: Carpre Diem )

Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck once observed Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city--e...

Michael Burda,Professor of Economics at Humboldt University Berlin, is interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam in this VoxEU.org audio. They dis...

Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain: It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse. Steve Horowitz at The ...

In this VoxEU.org audio Edward Paul Lazear, Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Stanford Universit...

Earlier I commented that Closing the trans-Tasman income gap will take time . I have now read the NZIER working paper that the NBR news art...

A lot of time it seems if we don't change our economic policies. The National Business Review has an article which states It will take ...

An interesting question given we have an election not too far away. At EconLog Bryan Caplan points us to a paper by philosopher Jason Bren...