Anti-Dismal

Wouter den Haan, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics, London School of Economics and CEPR Research Fello...

I have written before on The firm in classical economics and noted Mark Blaug's famous point that that the classical economists simply ...

James Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools...

Governments sometimes promote reforms, normally with little thought as to what the actual outcomes will be, that increase access to educatio...

In a followup to the previous posting on the talk by Israel Kirzner, the other presentations given that day are embedded below. Dr. Peter ...

An often asked question. In a 2013 column at VoxEU.org Anton Cheremukhin, Mikhail Golosov, Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski attempted to a...

Two more in the series of posts from  The Economics of World War I  at  VoxEU.org The US learned the wrong lessons from WWI Hugh Rockoff,...

To reflect on the significance of Hayek’s Nobel Prize and the various strands of influence his work has had in subsequent decades of scholar...

This is an important question since one good reason for supporting having a minimum wage would be if it is an effective antipoverty policy m...

Recently Tim Worstall has been  reminding us of a 2004 paper on Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement by W...

From Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist by Antoin E. Murphy Before dealing with the complex interrelationship between [John] La...

One of the most important questions in economics has to do with whether pressure from home crowds affects decision making of sports official...

The following comes from an interview with Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom available online at " Econ Focus ", the e...

The following four principles come from the 2014 Nobel prize winner in economics Jean Tirole. The original column was posted at VoxEU.org o...

Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the craft of econometrics--how to use...

The Past and Present of the Theory of the Firm: A historical survey of the mainstream approaches to the fir...

Gary Marcus of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). While Marcus is ...

Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to Econtalk host Russ Roberts about...

A new collection of essays on Adam Smith has been announced. The following is from Gavin Kennedy at his Adam Smith's Lost Legacy blog:...

This is from the website of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics 2014 FEE Prize for the best book in Austrian economics ...