Anti-Dismal

This is from to the io9 webpage : University exams are never anyone's idea of a rollicking time, particularly when your professor ram...

Institutions are a key determinant of economic development and indeed many developing institutions are deeply dysfunctional. A new column a ...

Just don't tell Winston Peters! A new paper in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy looks at Firm Productivity and the Fore...

There is much heat and little light being generated over the funding of the Christchurch City Council's spending plans via increased deb...

In these times of increased unemployment an interesting question is Does job search help with finding a job? And the answer appears to be th...

Eric Crampton writes over at Offsetting Behaviour The National Business Review reports that the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Bill ...

Don Boudreaux has been writing to the Washington Post about the assumptions underlying the economic case in support of free trade. In fac...

Lawrence H. White, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, testified before the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and...

Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago and author of A Capitalism for the People talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea...

A common story told about the U.S. economy, and many other economies, is that World War II got the U.S. out of the Great Depression and thus...

At the Unlearning Economics blog some advice is given on How Not to Criticise Economics . The advice is don't, Criticising early assu...

At the Stumbling and Mumbling blog Chris Dillow asks , What is, or should be, the link between morality and narrow economic rationality? w...

As we have just had a new Governor of the Reserve Bank appointed, perhaps it is timely to ask this question. Steven Horwitz gave this lect...

As the NZAE meetings are on right now I would hope that one issue being discussed is how can we be, what Donald J. Boudreaux calls, The ‘goo...

From Stuff comes the news that The Government has written down the value of KiwiRail's land and network assets from $13.4 billion to...

There is always much discussion of what Adam Smith meant or said about this or that. One of the most discussed ideas is the "invisible ...

Earlier I posted on a paper that asked Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine...

Ceyhun Elgin and Oguz Oztunali are two economists who have been looking at the size of black-market economies around the world. Using a dat...

Enrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkeley and the author of the New Geography of Jobs talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts a...

From the New York Times BRUSSELS — For most Europeans, almost nothing is more prized than their four to six weeks of guaranteed annual vac...