Anti-Dismal

Previously I have commented on the article by University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales on Why Paulson is wrong? Now Zingales says it...

Many people have many reasons for not liking the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Paul Krugman and to be honest I share many of them. But I al...

Patri Friedman, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, talks with Russ Roberts at EconTalk about seasteading, the creation of au...

Peter Timmer of Stanford University and the Centre for Global Development talks to Romesh Vaitilingam in this audio from VoxEU.org about t...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to P...

This is the somewhat strange sounding question asked over at Oxonomics . In a posting, Is there too much competition in English Football? , ...

Earlier I commented on Arnold Kling's Fantasy Testimony on the US financial problems. Now over at EconLog Kling give us More Fantasy ...

In a couple of recent posts I have referred to the work of economic historian Robert Higgs. Now Eric Crampton has sent me this link to an a...

In two recent posts, here and here , I made comment on the idea that "regime uncertainty" was one factor which prolonged the depr...

From the Free Exchange blog comes a link to this NBER working paper, Will the TARP succeed? Lessons from Japan by Takeo Hoshi (Universit...

Eric Crampton sent me the following Limerick due to Samuel Bostaph, There was a Fed head named Bernanke Whose money supply hanky panky Creat...

This cartoon comes via Mark Perry at the Carpe Diem blog,

Roger Kerr's latest piece in the Otago Daily Times, Back to Basics on Property Rights (pdf), relates to my posting yesterday on Regime ...

The European Society for New Institutional Economics runs a yearly School on New Institutional Economics . This paper comes from the 2007 s...

In some of the recent commentaries on the current financial problems in the US an idea that is being mentioned is that of "regime uncer...

George Mason University economist and author Russell Roberts, who blogs at Cafe Hayek , talks with Reason.tv about the problems with the U...

The Economic Logician on Why is prostitution so well paid? Walter E. Williams on Lessons From the Bailout Stephen J. Dubner reviews The Pric...

Greg Mankiw points us to this posting at the Growth Blog by Paul Romer entitled Fundamentalists versus Realists . In part Romer writes Th...

Stan J. Liebowitz looks at the Anatomy of a Train Wreck: Causes of the Mortgage Meltdown . Liebowitz is Research Fellow at The Independent I...

William Bernstein, author of A Splendid Exchange , talks about inequality with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bernstein is worried about it; ...