Anti-Dismal

That the government isn't the best provider of many goods and services is a common enough argument, with plenty of empirical evidence to...

Will Wilkinson on the recently passed " cash for clunkers " legislation in the US: OK. Let me get this straight. I can get $4500 t...

The "Epilogue: Mechanics and Causes of Economic Growth" from Introduction to Modern Economic Growth by Daron Acemoglu is availabl...

Riccardo Rebonato of the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of Plight of the Fortune Tellers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about th...

Roger Kerr has a piece in the Business Forum column that appeared in the Dominion Post , 10 June 2009 in which he asks, Last Rites for the...

Indeed in the absence of transactions costs there seemed to be no reason why firms should exist at all. Martin Ricketts, "The Use of Co...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) seem to offer a solution to a common problem for economies which have been hampered by the poor quality o...

At his blog Aid Watch Bill Easterly comments on "rights" at the UN . He writes But let’s talk about rights at the UN. The UN publ...

A question I'm sure you ask yourself several times a day. Well the answer according to Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. ...

Eric Crampton at Offsetting Behaviour reports on vote buying in Tanzania. It looks likely that both the government and the opposition boug...

A posting at the Homepaddock blog lead me to this very strange article, by one Martin Feil, in The Age : 'Buy Australian' and free...

Over at the ThinkMarkets blog Gene Callahan asks does Daddy Knows Best? He writes Does economics have to assume that Daddy (or anyone else...

(HT: Carpe Diem )

This comes from a group of second-year Harvard MBAs: The MBA Oath . As a manager, my purpose is to serve the greater good by bringing p...

Raising taxes on alcohol to prevent problem drinking is akin to raising the price of gasoline to prevent people from speeding. Edward Peter ...

The link below is to a video of Maroš Servátka of the University of Canterbury, Rudolf Sivák of Ekonomická univerzita and Mary M. Shirley o...

Homepaddock has an interesting post on British dairy co-op in receivership . In part she writes Dairying in Britain is not in a healthy stat...

This comes from an article in the Economist magazine: Canadians are already worried at signs of rising protectionism in their neighbour’s ...

I blogged earlier on a NBER working paper by Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin that looks at Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity (NBE...

George L. Priest writes in the Wall Street Journal on The Justice Department's Antitrust Bomb . He says As if commandeering the banking...