Anti-Dismal

This 79 minute audio is of Professor Oliver Hart's inaugural Coase Lecture delivered on the 22 February 2007 at the London School of ...

In this 10 minute video Reason.tv 's Nick Gillespie talks with economist Arnold Kling and journalist Nick Schulz about their new book, ...

I'll be at the 4th Australian Workshop on Experimental Economics which is taking place at Canterbury on Friday and Saturday. Alan Wood,...

At Cato Unbound the topic of the moment is Hayek and the Common Law . Among non-economists, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek is perhaps be...

My question of the day. In a recent paper I used a 1989 quote from Oliver Hart about the state of our understanding of the theory of the fir...

The incentive effects of taxes are well appreciated by most people, if not by governments. The following comes from a piece, Hundreds of bos...

Over at the Austrian Economists blog Peter Boettke has a posting on Paul Samuelson . With regard to Samuelson two most famous books, Econom...

Arnold Kling of EconLog and the author (with Nick Schulz) of From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasti...

At Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen offers up some Facts about FairTrade . Cowen writes, We might think of sub-Saharan subsistence economi...

I reckon things haven't changed all that much in 60 years.

Steven Horwitz at the Austrian Economists blog explains that Apparently a number of communities in the Green Bay, WI area recently installe...

At VoxEU.org Simon J Evenett has a column on The Unrelenting Pressure of Protectionism: The Global Trade Alert's Third Report . The ful...

This from the New York Times . Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the...

In this audio from VoxEU.org , Jim O’Neill, head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the crisis...

Roughly the resource curse says that countries and regions with an abundance of natural resources , specifically point-source non-renewable ...

This question is asked by Steve Horwitz. On December 2, 2009, Horwitz gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “ Econ...

Strange but true. Thanks to Homepaddock we learn that News release – South Island wool price movements reflect levels of supply NZ Wool Se...

This 28 minute video is of the Nobel prize lecture on "Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems...

This 38 minute video is of the Nobel prize lecture on "Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression" given by Oliver Willi...

An article in Policy Review by Paul R. Gregory and Kate Zhou on How China Won and Russia Lost . The article looks at two dissimilar paths t...