Anti-Dismal

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 59 , August 2017) of the  NZAE  magazine  Asymmetric Information

An interview from the Libertarian Christian Institute with economist Art Carden about immigration. THE LIBERTARIAN CHRISTIAN PODCASTEp...

An interesting new paper which develops a theory, incorporating the division of labour and specialisation and a stochastic ('O-ring'...

Bob McManus writes at the City Journal : Stephen Colbert, with arguably the sharpest tongue among America’s late-night TV ankle-biters, ma...

An interesting looking new book series from Palgrave . Call for Proposals - Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies Announcing a new seri...

Yes the police, like criminals, respond to incentives. A new NBER working paper makes this point. Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and P...

From the IEA comes this podcast in which Kate Andrews and Steve Davies talk about the good and bad aspects of intellectual property rights....

From the IEA comes this podcast in which Kate Andrews and Steve Davies talk about the rise of economic nationalism. From the left-ward sh...

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...