Anti-Dismal

That governments often behave badly is clear, but what would be the worst things a government has done?For the U.S. there is now an answer. ...

A question that its not even clear makes much sense. Jason Brennan at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog argues why it doesn't. Fi...

This is a question asked at the Economist's blog Free Exchange . The profitability, or otherwise, of slavery is one of the most enduri...

In this video from the Mises Institute Peter G. Klein discusses the demise of Blackberry and how the market, not regulators, should pick te...

One of the great unanswered questions in economics is, Do beer mergers cause the price of beer to increase? Well the answer, based on U.S. e...

From the Bleeding Heart Libertarian blog comes this video of a 1981 debate between George Smith and David Friedman on the role of ethical ...

Gary Becker on Capitalism’s Return from the Financial Crisis Karl Marx saw every major depression in the nineteenth century as the final ...

At the Forbes website Steve Denning asks Did Ronald Coase Get Economics Wrong? I would say not, but Denning does get Coase wrong. Dennin...

Paul Lewis writing in the New Zealand Herald points, without intending to I'm sure, to the big positive that comes from Oracle winning...

In a previous post on the history of globalisation I quoted from Elhanan Helpman's book Understanding Global Trade . With regard to lon...

At his blog Greg Mankiw has posted some observations on the minimum wage debate. Mankiw was discussing the topic of the minimum wage with a...

Steve Mariotti at the Huffington Post has an article on Saving the Ludwig von Mises Papers: How the Holocaust Museum Helped Uncover a Nazi ...

At the TVHE blog William Taylor points us to a Economics themed beer: Hopportunity cost IPA The reason for this post is that an NZ Brewer...

A good question. But is there a good answer? The Free Exchange blog at the Economist website has asked this question  and as part of their...

Outsourcing is still a controversial practice in most countries around the world. This is just as true for emerging markets as it is for the...

David Epstein, writer for ProPublica and author of The Sports Gene , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book. Epstein discusse...

The first two postings on this topic are available here and here . In this third message the economist in question is Dr Sam Richardson of ...

The short answer, at least for political advertisements, seems to be yes. A recent article at VoxEU.org looks at Heterogeneous response a...

The video below comes via ReasonTV . "We haven't had an adult conversation about drugs in America," says acclaimed neuroscie...

If there was a humour section to this blog I'm sure this article would appear in it. The, unintended, humour comes from an article, at E...