Anti-Dismal

From the New Zealand Herald : A squeeze on cigarettes is already causing fights in prison, says an ex-inmate just released from Waikato...

At AidWatch they note that Celebrities urge G8 to make new unkept promises to keep previous unkept promises .

Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two books: Eugene Richter's Pi...

No seriously! Read Eddie's post on Why you don’t give the State too much power . Its about the police abusing their powers to take DNA...

From the New York Times , An examination by The New York Times highlights the chasm between the oil industry’s assertions about the reliab...

Scott Sumner of Bentley University and the blog, The Money Illusion, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the last 30 years of econo...

On C-Span Jeffrey Miron talks about his book, Libertarianism, from A to Z and he responds to telephone calls and electronic communication...

A new paper by Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya on Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Eviden...

From the Economic Logic blog comes this comment on Expectations and the employment effect of minimum wages . In many markets it is known th...

He writes , Death penalty supporters rely on three arguments. First, that the possibility of capital punishment deters crime by increasing ...

(HT: Aid Watch )

In this audio from VoxEU.org Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his new book, co...

Hands up who is surprised to hear that! Donald J. Boudreaux writes to the Wall Street Journal Justin Lahart accurately reports that, as ...

A new paper by Daron Acemoglu, Tarek A. Hassan and James A. Robinson looks at Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust i...

The Press tells us that, with regard to the Christchurch mayoralty race, Canterbury University senior economics lecturer Eric Frampton , wh...

I have just come across a 2004 NBER working paper on " The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: the Case of Drugs " by Gary S. Becker...

Johan Norberg on the financial crisis. He is discussing how bailouts, stimulus packages and zero interest rates create new bubbles, especial...

Johanna Blakely of the University of Southern California talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fashion industry and the role of i...

Matt Ridley, bestselling author of The Red Queen , Nature via Nurture , and other books, tells the story of human cultural and economic evol...

Not PC has recently put up his Blog Stats for May . Seeing these I took a look at some of my own stats. And yes nobody reads Anti-dismal. Ok...