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Tuesday, 8 October 2013

EconTalk this week

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Emily Oster of the University of Chicago and author of Expecting Better talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book on pregnancy ...
Monday, 7 October 2013

You just have to love the French

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

Was tulipmania irrational?

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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...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

A new paper regarding Austrian capital theory

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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...

Friedman on the minimum wage

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Via Mark J. Perry comes this classic 1980 Milton Friedman video on the minimum wage. Professor Walter E. Williams makes a guest appearance....
Friday, 4 October 2013

The ex ante and ex post benefits of events

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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 ...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Quote of the day

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Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck on rent control, 'Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient techniqu...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Prof. Lawrence White asks Can the monetary system regulate itself?

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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. ...

Markets v. capitalism

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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...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Jobs are a cost

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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...

EconTalk this week

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Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book Avera...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

Governments behaving badly

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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. ...
Saturday, 28 September 2013

Is Bill Gates wealthier than 140 nations?

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

Did slavery make economic sense?

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

Blackberry: lessons from the smartphone wars

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

Did U.S. beer mergers cause a price increase?

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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...
Friday, 27 September 2013

George Smith and David Friedman on defending libertarianism.

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

Interesting blog bits

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Gary Becker on Capitalism’s Return from the Financial Crisis Karl Marx saw every major depression in the nineteenth century as the final ...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

Misunderstanding Coase.

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

The good news from the America's Cup

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