Anti-Dismal

These videos come from Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institution . Robinson interviews Victor Davis Hanson about Han...

Hal Varian is interviewed by James Pethokoukis of the AEI . Varian is, of course, well known by all economics students due to his undergrad...

A new working paper from M E Brady will not go down well with everyone. " G. L. S. Shackle Was J. M. Keynes's Rival and Opponent...

A round-up of 2017, featuring the IEA's Director General Mark Littlewood and Communications Director Stephanie Lis. Interviewed by th...

Not sure I totally believe the calculations that underlie the figure but it does still give an indication of just how large companies like D...

Brink Lindsey of the Niskanen Center and Steven Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University talk with EconTalk host Russ Rob...

Three cheers for the stud! The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900 Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qia...

As the manuscript for " a brief prehistory of the theory of the firm " has been delivered to the publisher its worth giving a sho...

From David Beckworth’s podcast series,  Macro Musings  comes this audio of  an interview  with Doug Irwin on the history of US trade policy....

Yes that is a serious question. Brendan O’Neill (Editor of Spiked Online) joins Dave to discuss why he defines himself as a ‘Marxist Li...

From Conversations with Tyler comes this interview between Tyler Cowen and Douglas Irwin about trade policy. Well worth the hour it takes t...

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