Anti-Dismal

This essay, Pigs Don't Fly: The Economic Way of Thinking about Politics by Russ Roberts is well worth rereading, especially as we are o...

From the Cato Institute comes this Cato Daily Podcast audio in which Michael Munger is interviewed by Caleb O. Brown about Nancy Maclean...

No. 4.42 minutes stating the obvious.

The ever disintegrating Venezuela gives us a great illustration of why politicians should be kept out of businesses. Trying to gain politica...

One of the few interesting bits of monetary policy is the central banks role as the lender of last resort . For many, the "lender of ...

you get these kind of things happening, In a hastily organized plebiscite on July 16, held under the auspices of the opposition-controlle...

Dr. Mike Munger (Professor, Political Science & Economics at Duke University) is interviewed by Dave Rubin to discuss political science,...

Towards a Political Theory of the Firm is a new NBER working paper by Luigi Zingales. Abstract: Neoclassical theory assumes that firms...

I have just come across an article by Per Bylund at the Mises Institute website on the question  Was Ronald Coase an Austrian? At one po...

A new NBER working paper looks at the effects of the first and second phase-in of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raised the mini...

A two minute answer to the question from Oliver Hart.

This is a distinction every economics student knows. But where did it originate? A clear distinction between positive and normative econom...

An interesting new article from the Journal of Law, Economics and Organisation -- Volume 33, Issue 2 May 2017: 193-236. The Emergence of...

From David Beckworth’s podcast series,  Macro Musings  comes this audio of  an interview  with Daniel Griswold on the Basics of Trade. Dan...

These guys really know how to make trouble ......... Replicating Anomalies Kewei Hou, Chen Xue, Lu Zhang NBER Working Paper No. 23394 ...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 58 , April 2017) of the  NZAE  magazine  Asymmetric Information

From the 2017 Royal Economic Society Conference comes this video of the talk by Oliver Hart, the Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic...

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...