Anti-Dismal

Or so says Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. The Economist reports that , ENDING the consumption and the trafficking of illega...

Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life as a small organic farmer. She describes her working da...

From Ronald Coase and Ning Wang's "How China Became Capitalist": The tragedy of the Great Leap Forward illustrates that the ...

Homepaddock writes , The Remuneration Authority has recommended a small increase in pay for MPs and that has resulted in the usual carping...

From the New Zealand Herald . France's leading actor Gerard Depardieu says he will give up his French passport after the prime ministe...

Tyler Cowen notes this paper on Cash transfers and domestic violence . The abstract reads: Violence against women is a major health and h...

Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks wit h EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of F. A. Hayek, particularly his writings on ...

Eric Crampton points us to this wee gem from the West Island: The Director of the Centre for Research & Action in Public Health at th...

Earlier I argued with regard to Fonterra's "Milk In Schools" program that, Or if you get the kids drinking milk now and the...

even for milk. In a PR piece on the free milk in schools trial in Northland Fonterra writes Research conducted by the University of Auc...

This is the video of Eric Crampton's "What if?" lecture on "What if alcohol were not as socially costly as everyone says?...

A new version of my "The Past and Present of the Theory of the Firm" paper is up at Scribd . The abstract reads: In this surve...

On December 3rd 2008 Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales published an article in the Wall Street Journal under the title "Economists Have A...

Chris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book--the story of ho...

Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo on Trade, geography, and the unifying force of Islam Islam spread remarkably q...

As Canterbury is starting up its journalism program again this interview with The Economists's Greg Ip could be of use to would be eco...

Another fun econ video from Econ Stories :

Steve Keen has a another paper out on Debunking the theory of the firm—a chronology . Its by Keen and Russell Standish and appeared in issue...

For those who could not make it.

These headlines come via the Freakonomics blog . Thank you Stephen Dubner! Some of these are brilliant. ...