Anti-Dismal

May be not immediately but over time they do. Tyler Cowen makes the point in an article at Bloomberg . Most likely, there is a big differ...

Recently Tyler Cowen asked Adam Ozimek about the five biggest open questions are in the current economic debate. @ModeledBehavior ...the f...

In a new column at VoxEU.org Brock Smith, Thomas McGregor and Samuel Wills make a simple but important point about poverty. That is, one o...

"Once here you will discover that one of the University of Chicago’s defining characteristics is our commitment to freedom of inquiry ...

the poor. This is the conclusion of a new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (Volume 131 Issue 3 August 2016). The basic reason fo...

In this audio from the Chicago Booth Review Eugene Fama and Richard Thaler discuss this question . A fun and interesting discussion on issu...

At the IEA blog Ryan Bourne writes , ‘On average, women in paid work receive about 18% less per hour than men’. So reads the opening line...

Sadly the webpage for my favourite theory of the firm book has had to have a section on errata added to it. Yes I've already come acr...

Matt Ridley sums up the current state of economic liberalism in just a few words: It is the same around the world. Economic liberty is ou...

A specimen of the once thought only mythical beast has been spotted in the wild, well on my desk anyway, The only known example of this...

From the Economist magazine comes the 2016 Big Mac Index : While it is not shown in the graphic above if you look at the more detailed...

At Cafe Hayek Don Boudreaux makes a good point about the effects of robots on employment: Robots not only do not threaten to increase lon...

I've just received an email telling me that the greatest book ever written, aka The Theory of the Firm: An overview of the economic main...

That Adam Smith was not a huge fan of the joint stock company is well known. But what exactly did he think and why did he think it? And why ...

From the American Journal of Public Health , Volume 106, Issue 9 (September 2016): Key Findings on Alcohol Consumption and a Variety of Heal...

Maximilian Rowoldt and Dennis Starke discuss " The role of governments in hostile takeovers – Evidence from regulation, anti-takeover p...

This is the title of a forthcoming article in the  European Journal of Political Economy by Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson. The abstra...

So writes Ilya Somin at the FEE website. The Olympic Games cause a great amount of harm to many people in the host city, in particular to ...

At the Entrepreneur website Per Bylund, author of The Problem of Production: A new theory of the firm (well worth a read if you are into t...