Anti-Dismal

Bernard Hickey, who wishes to lecture all of us on things economic, writes : I wonder too, why can't Treasury and the government appoin...

The standard of debate on the topic of asset sale isn't great but this extract from a letter to the Editor of the DomPost (thanks to The...

Previously I wrote about the aims of privatisation programs and said: Another issue which is getting much press is how much would the gove...

There has been a lot of rubbish written recently about the idea of the partial privatisation of some state assets. There has also been some ...

Research by Daniele Nosenzo, Theo Offerman, Martin Sefton and Ailko van der Veen looks at the question, Why pay mangers a bonus for doing we...

For non-economists the idea of rational addition seems weird but there is data that supports the theory. From the Economic Logic blog comes...

(HT: Turbulence Ahead. )

According to this news report : A new study by Canterbury University's GeoHealth Laboratory showed fast-food outlets were 5 1/2 times ...

It should be obvious that China has been one of the world's most dynamic economies in recent decades, but why did it need to play catchu...

The cool picture below comes from a posting by Laura Freschi at the Aid Watch blog. The idea is that the amount of light that can be seen ...

Paul Krugman recently wrote in the New York Times that, It’s true that we’d have more jobs if we exported more and imported less. But is ...

According to the University of Otago, Scientists at the University of Otago have found that regular consumption of school milk significan...

Mark Perry at Carpe Diem writes , Paul Kedrosky reported yesterday that copper thefts are rising again, due to the all-time record high pr...

Eric Crampton points me to this piece by Kevin Dick at the Emergent Fool blog on Thoughts on the Theory of the Firm . On a quick read of t...

Steve Fazzari of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of Keynesian stimulus. They d...

In this Cato Institute book forum Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary Research Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh, talks about his book ...

At his blog Mankiw offers his comments on the paper “Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs” by Wendy A Stock, John...

In this book “ Adam Smith ” (well worth a read) Gavin Kennedy writes His [Smith's] criticism highlights his common theme about the eigh...

In this brief (around ten minutes) podcast , from the Cato Institute , noted Adam Smith scholar James R.Otteson talks about on Adam Smith a...

This is from Physical Review Letters 105, 252303 (2010). Title: Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Colli...