Anti-Dismal

From the IEA blog comes this piece by Sam Collins, It is easy to pick up a newspaper, watch television or look on a blog and assume the ...

This video is of a talk given given by Professor John H. Cochrane at the Mercatus Center / CATO conference " After Dodd-Frank: The Futu...

Continuing with the application of the Coase Theorem to reclining seats in aircraft, Jodi Beggs writes at the Economists do it with Models ...

A bit of interesting weekend reading: Steven G. Medema on Neither Misunderstood Nor Ignored: The Early Reception of Coase's Wider Chal...

From the comments on one of my previous posts comes this from Economists Do It With Models Actually, one of the articles on the subject m...

Following on from my posting yesterday I see that someone does get the Coase Theorem. Writing at the Wall Street Pit Donald Marron says S...

Another in the series of posts from The Economics of World War I project at VoxEU.org Walking wounded: The British economy in the afterma...

This comes from Matthew E. Kahn's Environmental and Urban Economics blog: My fellow University of Chicago economists, stop reading K...

especially if you are female. A new NBER working paper looks at Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women . The paper is by...

This is a 30 minute video of Alvin Roth's recent lecture at Lindau , on Repugnant Markets and Forbidden Transactions .

There is a new organisational form, called the non-practicing entity (NPE), in the world of intellectual property. NPEs have recently emerge...

From the TVNZ website we learn that The New Zealand dollar dropped sharply in mid morning trade today, shedding half a US cent in about f...

Daphne Koller of Coursera talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about online educational website Coursera and the future of education both ...

An obvious and important question in industrial economics is does competition raise productivity and if so, through what mechanism? In a 201...

In City A.M. Guy Bentley writes The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has announced plans for a major mandatory fingerprinting syst...

The unlikely sounding answer to this question is yes. This answer comes from a paper in a recent issue of The American Economist (Vol. 59, ...

Carlos Vargas-Silva asks Are Migrants Good for the Economy? Two studies about the impact of migration on the UK economy have been publishe...

Terry Anderson, Distinguished Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, tal...

This is a question that Professor, and Nobel Prize winner, Alvin Roth was asked  by a reporter from Brazil. The questions and Roth's ans...

An obituary of Ronald Coase appeared in the first issue of the new journal he helped set up, Man and the Economy . The piece is by Ning Wa...