Anti-Dismal

Or so Homepaddock points out in a recent post . She writes, Getting broadband into rural areas could help arrest the urban population drif...

What do pirates and football teams have in common? It may not be obvious, but I would argue they are both examples of human-capital based ...

From VoxEU.org comes this audio in which Paul Collier of Oxford University talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about how low-income countries that...

Or so says a Canadian economist whose name I forget. Chris Kenny writes in The Australian that the social costs of alcohol in Australia ...

There is an interesting piece on Robert Barro in the U.K.'s Telegraph . Barro is reported as saying: Stimulus packages, when they are...

Henry G. Manne, Dean Emeritus, George Mason University School of Law, discusses "The Power of Law and Economics." Henry G. Man...

Tim Worstall on Ban PowerPoint! Here’s the answer to the European economic woes: ban PowerPoint. Yes, really, that’s the suggestion from a...

In this short video from the Cato Institute , Jeffrey A. Miron speaks about the effects of 40 years of drug prohibition.

From the Cato Institute comes "Policy Analysis no. 679" on The Subprime Lending Debacle: Competitive Private Markets Are the Solu...

Yes there is econ blogger life in Wellington again. Well as much as there is any form of real life in Wellington! At TVHE rauparaha covers ...

David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about bankruptcy and the government bailout ...

At the CIS website, Oliver Marc Hartwich makes the point that the idea that sending profits overseas is somehow bad for the local economy ...

From Fox News we learn that, North Korea has shut down its universities for the next 10 months so students can work in factories to help r...

No, I'm not making this up. Steven Baker is the MP for Wycombe in the U.K. and he writes , I had the great pleasure last night of spe...

Steven Rattner on The Great Corn Con FEELING the need for an example of government policy run amok? Look no further than the box of cornflak...

Art Carden writes , “But these drugs are so dangerous!” people might contend. Indeed, they are. But this overlooks the fact that drugs have...

Clearly one of the most important economic issues of the age! Because they brew at home, those evil economy wrecking homebrewers don't b...

or so argues Steve Horwitz at the Free Banking blog. Some economists, especially Austrian economists, see fractional reserve banking as on...

James Otteson of Yeshiva University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith. The conversation begins with a brief sketch of ...

As Eric Crampton notes over at Offsetting Behaviour Steve Maharey, Vice-Chancellor of Massey University, has decidied he is a labour econo...