Anti-Dismal

From Fox News Latino , Pope Francis has added his voice to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work, saying it's "scandalo...

We all know how this feels (HT: Organizations and Markets )

Things just keep on getting worse in Venezuela. From the BBC we get this bit of news, Venezuela says it will cut the working day for pub...

At his blog Tim Harford has been writing on The truth about inequality . He says, How serious a problem is inequality? And if it is seriou...

Taxation is always a problematic issue but the taxation of very high income earners is becoming an even more controversial subject in a numb...

Leonard Wong of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about honesty in the mil...

Inequality is the trendy topic of the moment. Wage inequality being part of the story. We hear about differences in wage between males and f...

Man has been inventing labour saving technology ever since, well, man has been man. And it has yet to lead to long-term mass unemployment. A...

And one topic on which they do agree is the case for free trade. As Gregory Mankiw has recently written in The New York Times , Among eco...

From the Financial Times , Mr Maduro’s escalating nationalist agitprop — including the unveiling of Venezuela’s longest flag — comes as he...

As the economy changes so should competition policy. But does it? The "new economy" or the "information economy" or the ...

Some weekend reading: Chris Dillow on Bonuses and productivity Big bonuses for bosses can have adverse effects upon productivity Jérém...

Over at the Offsetting Behaviour blog Eric Crampton comments on how bad the business plan for a new $156 million cycleway for Christchurch...

One new and growing area of modern economics is what is commonly referred to as "repugnant markets". This area is most often assoc...

Over at the Forbes website Tim Worstall writes an interesting article making the basic point that Welfare Payments Really Are Not Subsidies...

Of all the government policy ideas that have been implemented over the last 40 years or so "the war on drugs" may well rank as one...

Scott Sumner, of Bentley University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about interest rates. Sumner suggests that professional economist...

The idea of "mathematical Austrian economics" would seem to many Austrian economists, especially those of the older generation, to...

This video is of the Nobel Prize winner Professor Kenneth Arrow talking on the topic of "Future Directions of Research in the Coasean T...

Thanks to Jim Rose at the Utopia - you are standing in it blog our attention is drawn to this video of Professor Sam Peltzman talking on t...