Anti-Dismal

so says Eric Crampton in this morning's Press here in Christchurch. And he is right. The figures in question are the Ministry of Healt...

The NBR reports that Current government policies show no sign of delivering the growth rates New Zealand needs to close the large income g...

Or so says Philippe Legrain over at VoxEU.org . Legrain argues, While the debate over global imbalances often focuses on China, this colum...

Hayek and Keynes Battle at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering : On October 25th, an audience of financial managers and CEOs, politician...

So writes Donald J. Boudreaux in this article Free Trade and Globalization: More than "Just Stuff" . Boudreaux concludes by saying...

And the answer seems to be, not much. At least this is the outcome of a new working paper by Simon John Commander London Business School; In...

John Quiggin of Crooked Timber and the author of Zombie Economics talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ideas in economics that sho...

In the current issue of The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Polic y an article by Jeffrey Miron makes The Case Against the Fiscal Stimul...

High marginal taxes do matter: The Stones are famously tax-averse. I broach the subject with Keith [Richards] in Camp X-Ray, as he calls his...

An interesting observation from Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution : Nearly a quarter of South Korean men over 75 are still in the la...

An age old question. And one that keeps coming up in policy circles when talking about job creation. And when are policymakers not talking...

Matt Ridley seems to think this is a good idea. In a piece in the Wall Street Journal Ridley argues that behavioural economics needs to be...

Previously I noted that Stephen Hickson has written a good piece in the Christchurch Press on foreign ownership. Thanks to Offsetting Behav...

Economist Susan Athey talks to NPR : Did you know that every time you do a search on Google or Bing, you are improving the quality of the ...

Lasse Lien at Organizations and Markets gives a nice example of Survivor Bias: WW2 ed . One fascinating anecdote is how these pioneers used...

"There was another man who took out insurance with 28 or 38 companies," said Murray Armstrong, an insurance official for Liberty N...

The question of why the players in professional sports don't own the teams they play for is one I have been thinking about recently. On ...

EconStories.tv has three new videos available in which Lawrence H. White talks about the work of F A Hayek. Part one, Fear the Boom , foc...

Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing rivalry between Apple and Google. It is c...

As noted in the previous posting the Smoot-Hawley Act in the US invited trade retaliation from the US's trading partners. Jim Powell has...