Anti-Dismal

There is much written about the effects that automation and robots will have on human employment and normally we are told it's all bad. ...

An article at Voxy.co.nz tells us that English concedes NZ farms better off in NZ ownership - NZ First . The article states, The governme...

How important are basic skills for economic success and growth? Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with Ec...

Up until now I have never really gotten the reason for people getting so excited about the effects of housing on productivity. When the Prod...

Wences Casares, bitcoin evangelist and founder and CEO of Xapo, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how bitcoin works, the genius o...

That is the headline on an article at stuff.co.nz . In the article Aimee Gulliver writes, Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga announces th...

This is a question asked by Jeff Cisyk and Pascal Courty in a new column at VoxEU.org . That performance-enhancing drugs are used and tha...

With all the xenophobic rubbish we are getting from Labour and bizarre calls for bans on foreign ownership of housing by the likes of the BN...

Lee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. R...

Michael O'Hare of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the management of art museums. O...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the U.K. has produced a report  (pdf) which looks at the the theoretical and empirical evide...

New Zealand Economic Papers has some interesting papers due to appear in future issues. From complete to incomplete (contracts): A surve...

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...