Anti-Dismal

Peter Leeson, author of "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates", sits down with Reason.tv 's Nick Gillespie to d...

Homepaddock asks Do you want a sermon with that? It appears customers are being charged extra for something that will be better for the env...

The problem of piracy is much in the news these days. The freeing of American ship captain Richard Phillips from a band of Somali pirates re...

Recently I commented on the fact that one thing missed in the debate over the Auckland supercity was the effect it would have on competitio...

For the past 20 years, the U.S. has maintained a Minimum Legal Drinking Age of 21 (MLDA21). Recently more than 100 college and university pr...

How can you not read a posting with a title like that?! The posting comes from William Easterly's blog Aid Watch . Easterly writes that...

This is not a posting to be read by those over at The Standard. I picked up on the following Newsweek article " If It's In the Grou...

Over at Defective Equilibrium , Tom M puts forward the interesting argument that It is often assumed by defenders of largely unregulated pr...

From MIT World this video is of a lecture by Robert C. Merton on Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance . The le...

In an article on the BBC website, the BBC News website's world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds asks Could 19th-Century plan stop pir...

Over at Organizations and Markets , Peter Klein is blogging on Antitrust and the Theory of the Firm . Klien notes that in the past the pione...

F.A. Hayek is interviewed by John O'Sullivan, for The Foundation for Economic Education . The interview was done in 1985 and is more tha...

A long question, but an important one. It is asked by William Easterly in his review of Alan Beattie’s new book " False Economy: A Sur...

Don Boudreaux, of George Mason University, talks with Russ Roberts, the host of EconTalk , about the microfoundations of macroeconomics and...

Having discussed pirates here , I was interested to find this quote on Marginal Revolution In the "City of God," St. Augustine te...

In the past I have, as have a number of others, written on President Obama's views on trade. He has always seemed to be too protectionis...

This from the telegraph.co.uk website. Up until now the Department for Transport discouraged such schemes, increasing motorists' frustr...

At the NPR website Peter Leeson - an economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics ...

At his blog, Aid Watch , William Easterly points out there is no secret , [...] there is no secret. One approach to a successful aid project...

TVHE on Americans growing more tolerant of gay marriage Brad Taylor on Same-sex Marriage and the Neutral State . Homepaddock on Biosecurity ...