Anti-Dismal

A number of people seem more excited by this award than me, see for example, A Fine Theorem , Joshua Gans at Digitopoly and Tyler Cowen at ...

From the New Zealand Herald comes this gem , Research funding from the dairying and soft drink industries could be declined on ethical gro...

Another in the series of posts from  The Economics of World War I at VoxEU.org Endowments for war in 1914 Avner Offer 19 September 2014 ...

Elizabeth Green, author of the new book Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach it to Anyone) , talks with EconTalk...

From the Stuff website comes this news : Labour is promising to create a new national asset buying fund, giving at least $100 million a y...

In this audio Deirdre McCloskey is interviewed on the Tom Woods Show. Deirdre McCloskey, author of The Bourgeois Virtues , among many other ...

One of the most discussed issues to do with the New Zealand economy is New Zealand's less than stellar history of productivity growth. ...

From the back of a packet of throat lozenges I saw in the supermarket: [...] Lozenges have been formulated to give effective and rapid rel...

.... at least in Russia. Understanding consumer behaviour is crucial for many economic questions. A new column -  The persistence of consu...

An intersting new working paper by Per L. Bylund considers Signifying Williamson's Contribution to Coase's Transaction Cost Approach...

In the comments section to my previous post on this topic Donal Curtin makes the point that However, unfortunately but unavoidably, it i...

Someone else get it! James Johnson at the Monkey Cage gets the point that the Coase Theorem doesn't apply to the reclining seats in ai...

At the Offsetting Behaviour blog Eric Crampton reminds us of one of the great stories about the inefficiency of the old Eastern Block. Eri...

Over at the, ever interesting,  Economics New Zealand blog Donal Curtin writes , Chorus got bowled like ninepins this morning by the Cour...

What are the effects of the size of the market in which a firm operates on the efficiency and productivity of the firm? According to a new w...

Paul Pfleiderer, C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, talks with Eco...

From VoxEU.org comes this video in which Edmund Phelps and Mark Thoma discuss a number of topics including Phelps's argument that a los...

Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief technology officer of Airbnb, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Airbnb, one of the earli...

From Avinash Dixit's new book, Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction , comes this discussion of costs and the supply curve. Dixit is...

This from the Economist magazine: Venezuela is in trouble. Such trouble, in fact, that the central bank (BCV) has not published GDP figur...