Anti-Dismal

Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College talks on The French Gold Sink and the Great Depression . The discussants are Charles Calomiris of Columbi...

Hylke Vandenbussche and Jozef Konings argue in an article at VoxEU.org that there is evidence to suggest that old-fashioned protection can...

In their book The Marketplace of Christianity Ekelund Jr., Robert F. Hebert and Robert D. Tollison note that in 1805: Spanish Index of Fo...

Chris Dillow at the Stumbling and Mumbling blog misses the point of the gains from trade: Mario Balotelli's transfer to AC Milan high...

Recently we had the Ministry of Education releasing figures on what students can earn after they graduate. Now we have Jason Sorens writing...

Over the past few decades one of the things that management gurus, consultants and the popular business press have argued is that firms are ...

Peter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Living Economics . Boettke argues for embrac...

It is often said that economists always disagree, but is this true. If the results of a recent NBER working paper are anything to go by econ...

A question asked by Greg Mankiw over at his blo g. He points us to two possible answers. This first of these is The Growth of Modern Fina...

This article from the National Journal argues in favour of a carbon tax: To paraphrase Ronald Reagan paraphrasing Will Rogers, some peop...

This is a topic much discussed at universities ........ by non-administrators. Arnold Kling writes at his askblog blog In universities, ...

Peter Boettke over at the Coordination Problem argues that , [Dani] Rodrik claims that "The liberal model has become severely tarnis...

Eric Crampton writes , Students choosing majors may well worry about employment options after graduation. The NZ Ministry of Education has...

Debates about the economic effects and the merits of the minimum wage date back at least as far as the introduction of minimum wages. In a 2...

The problem noted in the previous post on how to measure productivity in the internet age is just one example of the problems with measurin...

Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy ...

These nine facts will not be of any concern to most of you, but they will be very important for a small subset of you. So those in the subse...

I have made a few changes to my paper "The Past and Present of the Theory of the Firm". The new version is available at SSRN The...