Anti-Dismal

To appreciate why market prices are essential to human well-being, consider what a fix we would be in without them. Suppose you were the...

One obvious risk that firms face, especially these days, is political risk, but how does it effect firms and what do they do about it? The...

I have just signed a contract with Routledge for them to publish my second book, "A brief prehistory of the theory of the firm". ...

An interesting looking revised version of a working paper from the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University on "...

An interesting new NBER working paper on Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age by Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem...

In this audio from EconTalk Russ Roberts interviews Dennis Rasmussen about Rasmussen's new book " The Infidel and the Professor:...

Claudia Goldin (Professor of Economics at Harvard University) writes, in the New York Times , on How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay...

What does populism mean? Why do people buy it? Is the critique against the established elites valid? What are the main causes of the populi...

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...