Anti-Dismal

A big question asked by Allen Sanderson in the Chicago Life magazine. The basic message in his argument is  in the last paragraph: In the...

Los Angeles Times debates the issue of whether there should be a market for kidneys for transplants. For: People who need kidneys are d...

On the AMI bail out: Matt Nolan here and here Eric Crampton here Not PC here Paolo Manasse on The trouble with the European Stability M...

In this audio from VoxEU.org , Michael Spence of Stanford University talks to Viv Davies about growth prospects in the U.S. and developing ...

This is from a blog posting by Philip Booth, from the IEA blog, on competition policy. I am increasingly of the view that competition poli...

or not. John Taylor explains the budget debate going on in the U.S. right now: perhaps the biggest difference is that the House Budget b...

From Greg Mankiw 's blog: Mankiw Says Higher Taxes Won’t Increase Revenue The brief article alleges to summarize what I said in an in...

Gavin Andresen, Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about BitCoin, an innovative attem...

The Boston Globe has a piece on Alvin Roth one of the leading market design economists, Academically speaking, Roth is a pioneer of so-ca...

Paul Krugman has responded (on 31 March) to a reply (of March 31) by John Taylor to two of Krugman's critiques ( afternoon and evenin...

Ed Dolan on Why we are losing the war on drugs No one who has ever taken Econ 101, or read the works of Friedrich Hayek, should be the least...

John Taylor argues that the most effective way to reduce unemployment is to raise investment as a share of GDP. His blog post is Higher Inve...

Yes there is a second edition of The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford due out in the U.K. in Apirl. What's new? From Tim Harford...

The stuff.co.nz has an article on the Commerce Commissions decision to investigate milk prices which makes more sense than most of the medi...

Its April 1st, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised to learn that the Continued Existence Of Edible Arrangements Disproves Central Tenet...

The point that Matt Nolan and myself have noted about the claim that raising your price can be anti-competitive raises another question wi...

There have been some seriously weird things said about the price of milk recently but this comment in an article from stuff.co.nz has to b...

Allen R. Sanderson, who teaches economics at the University of Chicago, has had enough. For too long, he says, the U.S. has been far too dep...

Mark Pennington writes on a recent judgement from the European Court of Justice. Pennington says, Classical liberals claim that theories o...

At the Adam Smith Institute blog James Paton is discussing a balanced budget law . He writes, In 2009, the German constitution was amended...