Anti-Dismal

This video is of Alvin Roth's second, of two, 2014 Marshall Lectures given at Cambridge University, February 20 2014. The topic of this...

While reading a chapter in Ben Powell's new book Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy I came across the following comment, ...

Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a college education. ...

The following video is of an interview of Milton Friedman by Gary Becker. It was recorded in Chicago in November 2002.

Or so says Simon Johnson at The Baseline Scenario blog. Johnson writes, No doubt there is still a lot of shouting to come, but this week...

Previously I have noted papers that deal with the effects of long-term unemployment, see here , here , here and here . Now Tim Harford is w...

The following comes from a blog post , by Kurt Schuler, at the Free Banking blog, Since the revival of interest in the history of free ba...

is the title of a new paper by Claudia Goldin in the American Economic Review (104(4): 1091-1119.) which looks at the gender gap in pay. T...

John Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online cours...

In this audio from VoxEU.org Eswar Prasad talks to Viv Davies about Prasad's recent book, ‘ The Dollar Trap: How the US dollar tighten...

you really want to read. Yes you do!!! Simple models of a human-capital based firm: a reference point approach by Paul Walker

A question I'm very pleased to see Sam Richardson asking . As I'm sure most of you will have heard by now the Minister for Economic ...

In a response to my previous post on Football as a workers cooperative - or lack thereof the always interesting Tim Worstall says, at The ...

This video is of a presentation by Professor Peter G. Klein at the Mises Circle in Newport Beach, California in November 2009 on "Are B...

Everyones third favourite Marxist, Chris Dillow, wants to discuss Football as Financial Economics while the not-so-Marxist Jim Rose asks Wh...

John Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama i...

One of the more obvious problems with economic regulation is the law of unintended consequences. You can end up with results that are the op...

This is the question asked by Timothy Taylor at this blog Conversable Economist . Important here is the claim, popular among economists, th...

In this interesting audio from VoxEU.org Charles Calomiris talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about Calomiris's recent book, co-authored with...

One of the strangest things about basic microeconomics is that we write demand curves in the form, q=D(p) that is, quantity demanded is a...