Anti-Dismal

Yes, robots takeover even more jobs! The US Navy’s most adorable employees are about to get the heave-ho because robots can do their job f...

Michael Giberson writes over at the Knowledge Problem blog about the effects of allowing prices to adjust when a disaster hits. That is, t...

2012 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: What if governments can't pay their debts? Date: Wednesday 5 December 2012 Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00...

So suggests Lasse Lien at the Organizations and Markets blog. He writes, Here’s a link to the “online first” version of a new Org. Scien...

Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about th...

David Friedman sat down to talk with Reason TV at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego. Friedman reflected on the impact of his landmark book, ...

An interesting question asked by Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman at VoxEU.org . Increasingly...

Having been working on a survey of the theory of the firm I noted that an often neglected topic in the literature is that of state owned fir...

What If alcohol was not as socially costly as everyone says? Presented by Dr Eric Crampton, Wednesday, 28 November, from 7.30pm to 9.00pm,...

A question asked at the Homepaddock blog and we are offered this picture claiming it was, Let us assume the numbers themselves are to...

This video is of a talk by Matt Ridley, given at the Adam Smith Institute , entitled Adam Darwin - Spontaneous order in biology and economic...

Dr. Richard S J Tol, Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute; and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Vrije Uni...

I have come across a survey article on the efforts of WalMart on local economies. The abstract reads: This article reviews the literature...

Eric Crampton on Do Costs Matter (Revisited) Crikey's Bernard Keane has been questioning the taxpayer-subsidised anti-alcohol campai...

Marcia Angell of Harvard Medical School and the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about t...

The Conversable Economist , Timothy Taylor, writes If we want people to be serious about recycling, having a policy of 5-10 cents for retu...

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Next week's University of Canterbury " What If? " lecture will be given by Dr Eric Crampton on the topic: What if alcohol ...

When writing, at the Groping towards Bethlehem blog, about how to make government more innovative Bill Kaye-Blake says that private busine...

In a piece in December 2012 issue of The Magazine Coase writes about Saving Economics from the Economists . He opens his article by noting,...