Anti-Dismal

"The main point is that having commercial economic incentives in place causes us to perceive new information in more positive-sum terms...

The great economic historian Douglass North died a few days ago and today while reading a book chapter on "Coase and the 'sharing e...

From stuff.co.nz comes this bit of crazy news . Prediction website iPredict is to be closed down, with the Government deciding it repres...

Michael Munger of Duke University makes his 29th appearance on the 500th episode of EconTalk alongside EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He talks ...

International Business Lecture: Standing on the Shoulders of Midgets: Dominant Firms and Innovation Incentives Presenter: Luís Cabral P...

In his book Whither Socialism? Joseph Stigliz writes, Coase went wrong in assuming that there are no transaction costs and no information...

One of the big questions in the theory of the firm is about determining the boundaries of the firm. This is normally thought about as a ...

No Kiwi will ever tire of watching this.

A question worth asking is what damage did the Soviet era do to economics in Russian. Well now we may have, at least part of, the answer. ...

Professor Daniel Klein pleads with conservatives and libertarians to not call progressives and left-oriented people ‘liberals.’ The lectur...

Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and the Center for Open Science talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Reproducibility P...

From the IEA in London. The Influence of Coase on Economic Policy – The Next 50 Years The late Professor Ronald Coase made huge contr...

An argument made by Alchian and Demsetz (1972) in their discussion of the reasons for the formation of a firm is that in situations where th...

is the title of a new book  edited by Cento Veljanovksi from the IEA in London. It provides an introduction to the ideas of Ronald Coase. ...

Should women get routine mammograms? Should men get regular PSA exams? Robert Aronowitz of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of ...

Michael Matheson Miller of the Acton Institute and the Director of the documentary Poverty, Inc., talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts ab...

Dr Terry L. Anderson Condliffe Lecture 2015 Environmental Markets: Lessons from and for Fisheries Management The Department of Econ...

Cesar Hidalgo of MIT and the author of Why Information Grows talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of knowledge and know-...

Here are two lectures given by Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Nor...

Yuval Harari of Hebrew University and author of Sapiens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of humanity. Topics discus...