Anti-Dismal

There is a cool new book and website available on the work of F. A. Hayek designed for the general reader. The book is the The Essential H...

A couple of days back I downloaded the Kindle version of Ilya Somin new book on the problems with eminent domain, " The Grasping Hand: ...

From the Free Thoughts series at Libertarianism.org comes this interview with Professor Peter J. Boettke of George Mason University in whi...

A bit over a week ago in the comments to a post James asked, Can I make a request for a topic? Since you're the resident expert on th...

Just when you thought things in Venezuela couldn't possibly get any worse, they do. This from Yahoo! News : Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan...

The double marginalization problem is a classic problem with applications in industrial organization, innovation policy and development. The...

This short video comes from The Economist magazine: Rocketing prices and limited construction are putting home ownership out of reach fo...

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...