Anti-Dismal

An interesting graph from Steve Hanke showing Venezuela's rate of inflation. Not a pretty sight.

A question asked by Jason Brennan at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog. Trump is the worst president ever? So say an important subs...

From VoxEU.org comes a column by Anna Stansbury and Lawrence Summers on the relationship between pay and productivity in the US. Since 1...

In this audio economist Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of economics at Smith College and the author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Be...

you get paid in eggs! A Wall Street Journal report on the situation in Venezuela  tells us One U.S. dollar now fetches around 236,000 b...

An interesting looking article by Timur Kuran forthcoming in the Journal of  Economic Literature goes sunder the above title. The abstra...

From the IEA comes this audio on scalping and the value of it. The resale of tickets has been around for as long as humans have charged ...

At the 2018 ASSA meeting Luigi Zingales delivered a lecture honouring Oliver Hart, co-winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for economics. In pa...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 60 , December 2017) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .

On this episode of The Big Question , Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wie...

Writing at the IEA blog Kristian Niemietz says, Now we’ve finally learned what went wrong in Venezuela: it wasn’t real socialism. At the...

The book is now in the hands of a production editor. The publication of the hardback version is due in June 2018. You can, however, pre-or...

On Radio New Zealand Nights , Dr Eric Crampton of the New Zealand Initiative talks through the findings of the Initiative's latest repo...

The example of Mumbai, India. In this video , from  Marginal Revolution University , Alex Tabarrok discusses the effects of rent controls ...

In this podcast, IEA Research Director Dr Jamie Whyte is interviewed by Kate Andrews and they discuss Oxfam's latest report on global i...

The album Silent Revolution by The Benevolent Dictators is an album in which the songs draw on material from the works of Adam Smith. Four...

A new working paper by Teodoro Garcia (grad student, Department of History, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley) on  Alexander the Great...

At the Marginal Revolution blog Tyler Cowen writes on the new biography of economist Edith Penrose, No Ordinary Woman: The Life of Edith P...

The Economist ’s Big Mac index gives a flavour of how far currency values are out of whack. It is based on the idea of purchasing-power pa...

From the Economic Rockstar podcast come this interview of Emily Oster by Frank Conway. Professor Oster (Economics, Brown Univeristy) is the...