Anti-Dismal

William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ...

Paul Buchheit, developer of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Gmail project...

Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of Create Your Own Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his r...

In this audio from VoxEU.org Bruce Sacerdote of Dartmouth College talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his research on the academic performa...

Tim Harford at FT.com asks what is the economic price that America has paid for the September 11 attacks. He writes, Early estimates sugge...

During a beer tasting which I attended last week, which included a number of the medal winners from the recent Beervana, the discussion turn...

Thanks to Brad Taylor for pointing out this video of economist Hernando de Soto:

its just that some people don't what you to know it. The simple truth is that nanny state public health interventions really are nanny s...

Viral Acharya on Systemic risk and deposit insurance premiums . Financial institutions enjoy a large number of government guarantees. This c...

An interview including Alex Tabarrok (of Marginal Revolution fame), Sally Satel, and Frank Delmonico, covering the range of viewpoints on t...

Many economic historians would argue that living standards stagnated for millennia before the Industrial Revolution. New work by two economi...

At EconLog Bryan Caplan asks Where Does Monopoly Power Come From? He writes, You can't analyze the consequences of monopoly if you do...

In this audio from VoxEU.org Avinash Dixit of Princeton University talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about game theory in economics: its emergen...

Caleb Crain reviews Peter Leeson's book The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates in the New Yorker . A brisk, clever new b...

Not only in New Zealand, but also, it would appear, in the UK. But some see this as a bad thing. This from David Rawcliffe at the Adam Smit...

(HT: Homepaddock )

This from the New Zaland Herald , BERL chief economist Ganesh Nana agreed with Mr Hickey that property was the problem. Economic literacy ...

At least banks do, according to Kiwibank chief executive Sam Knowles , Most banks are only interested in making as much money as possible ou...

Earlier I noted The least surprising correlation of all time . This is a graph from Greg Mankiw's blog showing that kids from higher in...

See here for a link to videos of talks given at the NBER on the subject of Field Experiments in Economics. Using Field Experiments in Eco...