Anti-Dismal

From David Beckworth’s podcast series, Macro Musings comes this audio of an interview with Josh Zumbrun on the challenges and angst facing...

Today I received a note from my publisher telling me that the greatest book ever written has sold a total of 82 copies! Ok a few fewer than...

This video comes from the Brookings Institution : Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, unpacks the security, ec...

The publisher, Routledge , of my book " The Theory of the Firm: An Overview of the Economic Mainstream " is offering 20 percent of...

This thought experiment is from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek . Imagine that you’re given the option of buying ten-dollar bills for $5 a pi...

From the Cato Institute comes this Cato Daily Podcast in which Vanessa Brown Calder talks to Caleb O. Brown about the effects of mandate pa...

A recent discussion on twitter went as follows: The basic point is that relative prices changes and inflation are not the same thing des...

David Ricardo is probably most famous because of his introduction of the idea of comparative advantage into economics. Today comparative adv...

Is it a good idea have a ceiling on the interest rate, be that zero or some positive rate. We study the effects of interest rate ceilings ...

Often even well intentioned policies can have harmful unintended consequences. One such example is the "Ban the box" policies that...

The problem of airline overbooking has made headline over the last week. An obvious question this gives rise to is, how do we deal with the ...

From NPR 's Plant Money comes this audio on A few years ago, Jestina Clayton started a hair braiding business in her home in Center...

and one of those things is the benefits that immigrants to a country bring. The following is the text of An Open Letter from 1,470 Economist...

Sonny Bill Williams has made the news over the last week for this objection to the BNZ logo on his Blue's jersey. My first reaction to h...

Financial institutions have made the news over the last few day, albeit for very strange reasons. But why, you could ask, do such institutio...

From Stuff: Man dragged off overbooked United flight by police as fellow passengers look on in horror Passenger Audra D. Bridges posted th...

From David Beckworth’s podcast series, Macro Musings comes this audio of an interview with Tyler Cowen on complacency, immobility, and sta...

From the Pro-Market blog comes this short interview with Austan D. Goolsbee (Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics and the University of C...

From Conversations with Bill Kristol comes this interview with N. Gregory Mankiw. Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at ...

From the Pro-Market blog comes this short interview with Professor Sam Peltzman (Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor ...