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Given the readerships statistics for Anti-Dismal, in short bloody awful,there is no point in continuing the blog. Demand does matter, a prod...

This is the title of a guest post by economic historian Price Fishback at Freakonomics . Fishback looks at the issue of whether the New Dea...

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. Thomas Babington ...

This audio comes from VoxEU.org . In it Vincent Crawford of the University of California, San Diego talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the r...

Kiwiblog's type is here , The visible hand in economics's type is here , Greg Mankiw's blog type is here , Homepaddock's typ...

The visible hand in economics on A carbon tax? Not PC asks Should we worry about deflation? The Economic Logician asks Are democracies good ...

Recently there has been discussion on a number of blog about productivity, here at Anti-Dismal I wrote this and this , at tvhe there was t...

Here’s video of the November 3rd 2008 Economist Debate on “The Business of Business is Business.” (HT: Will Wilkinson )

Steve Pierson on the Labour Part site The Standard has been talking about productivity again. He writes It’s exam season for high school s...

Nicholas Bloom, assistant professor of economics at Stanford University, has an article on VoxEU.org on 2009 will be the nightmare on Main ...

Thanks to The Inquiring Mind for this cartoon:

According to Steve H. Hanke's new Hyperinflation Index (HHIZ) at the Cato Institute, Zimbabwe's annual inflation is 89.7 sextillion ...

George Selgin of West Virginia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about free banking, where government treats banks as no di...

The St. Lawrence University communications staff recently sat down with their professor of economics, Steve Horwitz, for a podcast interview...

Daniel Hamermesh at the Freakonomics blog points out There’s a shortage of sperm in Britain! Apparently, Britain needs donations for about ...

Steve Pierson over at the Labour Party site, The Standard , has been writing on productivity , and again he is largely wrong. Pierson writes...

Mark J. Perry blogs at Carpe Diem on Two Very Dangerous Words: "Fair" and "Fairness" . He writes, In "The Armchair...

I have The Inquiring Mind to thank for this link to Willem Buiter's discussion of Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Board. A...

Kiwiblog gives details here . The actual agreement is here in pdf form. Save the Humans comments here . The Standard comments here . No Rig...

... on macroeconomics. His lecture can be found on the EconLog bog. Lecture 1 is here , 2 here , 3 here , 4 here , 5 here and 6 here . En...