Anti-Dismal

From the Independent Institute comes an article by Mary Theroux on the shameless and hypocritical use of the Oscars to promote the Obama s...

Pharmaceutical promotion, to doctors and consumers, is controversial in most countries. New Zealand has one of the more liberal sets of regu...

Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and the economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk...

The Gunderson report referred to in the previous posting on the effects of the minimum wage in Canada also has a short section on the effe...

What we know about the effects of the minimum wage are largely based on work from the USA. But there is evidence from other countries includ...

A video from a ceremony to honour Dr. Israel M. Kirzner's contributions to market process theory and entrepreneurship studies, (HT:...

From the TVNZ website comes this comment: Any Government bailout of beleaguered state-owned coalminer Solid Energy must not further devas...

Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise ...

Bob Higgs on Alchian Alex Tabarrok on Alchian Peter Boettke on Alchian Barkley Rosser on Alchian Doug Allen on Alchian David Henderson...

Another of the great old guard of economics has gone. As a theory of the firm man I think of Armen Alchian as one of the developers of the n...

Multinational firms are an obvious part of the economic landscape, and have been for a long time, perhaps the oldest still existing multinat...

This is the latest video from the recording of Tim Harford's radio series, “Pop Up Economics“.

Over at TVHE Matt Nolan has a good rant and gets things right in the process. He writes, Let me start this by underlying everything with...

Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her journey from Wall Street to ...

Cycle helmet laws are old hat here in New Zealand. But what are the effects of such laws? There is a new NBER working paper out that looks a...

Its nothing personal, its all about the cost-benefit analysis .

From the late, great, and Canadian, trade economist Harry Johnson: Second-best policies are usually recommended by third best economists w...

A talk by Israel M. Kirzner in which he responds to to the ethical critics of the market order.

Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the United States Constitution. Seidman argues t...

This is the title of a new paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine which appears in the latest issue (Vol. 27, Issue 1 Winter 2013) of...