Anti-Dismal

Emily Oster of the University of Chicago and author of Expecting Better talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book on pregnancy ...

From the Economics of information blog comes this wonderful insight to French economic thinking: According to an article on FT.com today:...

It is often assumed that the tulipmania was the result of financial market irrationality and the mania is often used as an example of said i...

For those with an interest in Austrian capital theory Nicolai Foss points us to a new paper on the formalisation of Eugen von Böhm-Bawer w...

Via Mark J. Perry comes this classic 1980 Milton Friedman video on the minimum wage. Professor Walter E. Williams makes a guest appearance....

When considering the issue of the benefits of of big events Shamubeel Eaqub writes at the TVHE blog that, In the lead up to the RWC, we ...

Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck on rent control, 'Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient techniqu...

This is an audio of a talk Professor White gave at CEVRO Institute in Prague earlier this month. White begins at around 6:30 minutes in. ...

Writing at the blog of the Adam Smith Institute Tim Worstall says , Forgive me but this is going to be a bit of a rant on one of my bugb...

We are often told by politicians and interests groups how many jobs this project or that project will create, as if jobs are somehow a benef...

Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book Avera...

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...