Anti-Dismal

Neolithic Revolution the Caucasian Resurrection.

Out of the Stone age and into the Neolithic one of human's most incredible accomplishments 6000 yrs before the pyramids. The story of Ne...

Has Trump actually come up with something right to do with trade? Are global subsidies a bad thing? Should we complain if other countries su...

Chang-Tai Hsieh, IGC steering group member, explains why some firms are more successful than others, using Indian firms as a case study. The...

A challenge from Don Boudreaux at the Cafe Hayek blog. Boudreaux issues the following challenge to any protectionist/mercantilist/economic...

This material is covers chapters 3 and 4 of Wernerfelt (2016). These chapters are, in turn, based on Wernerfelt (1997) and Wernerfelt (2015)...

"The division of labor is not a quaint practice of eighteenth-century pin factories; it is a fundamental principle of economic organiz...

Related to my previous posting on the withdraw of public funding for the Parker fight in Auckland comes this news from the New Zealand Heral...

This bit of good news comes from nzherald.co.nz . Just as they appeared set to announce Parker would fight Andy Ruiz Jr for the WBO title...

An interview of Joel Mokyr by Ana Swanson from the Washington Post . Why did the industrial revolution start in Europe, rather than in Ch...

Is the title of a new working paper by Richard N. Langlois. This paper is a draft chapter from an ongoing book project I am calling The C...

From Sam Richardson's Fair Play and Forward Passes blog comes some good news and some bad news with regard to the Joseph Parker fight....

A group of 370 economists, including eight Nobel laureates in economics, have signed a letter warning against the election of Donald Trump. ...

Donal Curtin at the Economics New Zealand blog writes . We had a session at last week's RBB Economics conference in Sydney on "H...

Kevin Bryan writes at VoxEU.org on Oliver Hart's contribution to the theory of the firm . Bryan writes, Grossman and Hart (1986) in...

A quote from Greg Mankiw's blog I don't care who writes a nation's laws, or crafts its advanced treaties, if I can write its e...

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka writes on Oliver Hart, Nobel laureate at VoxEU.org . As is well known by now Oliver Hart has been jointly awarded ...

Import tariffs v. free trade, argued by Donald Trump and Milton Friedman. One of these two guys knows about economics ..... and the oth...

From Morning Report this morning. A specialist in sports event economics, Dr Sam Richardson of Massey University, says the economic argumen...

A new paper, by Simon James Greenwood and Andrea Kutinova Menclova, has been published online for New Zealand Economic Papers on the above...