Anti-Dismal

From NPR 's Plant Money comes this audio involving Doug Irwin on the Worst. Tariffs. Ever. About a month ago, President Trump walked u...

Warburton was interviewed on Radio New Zealand 's  Morning Report . The Auckland venue for New Zealand's Americas Cup defence was ...

From Trade Talks comes this interview with Douglas Irwin on the Smoot-Hawley tariff, its effects and its relevance for today: Soumaya Key...

A couple of graphs make this point. and These graphs come from a column at Vox . The column is A stunning chart shows the true cau...

The senselessness of trade wars is well expressed in an adage attributed to the British economist Joan Robinson: Even if your trading part...

The IGM Economic Experts Panel at the University of Chicago 's Booth School of Business were asked their views on the statement Impo...

From RNZ's Morning Report comes this discussion  with Professor Steve Hanke of Trump's recent protectionist policies. China has r...

Protection is, unfortunately, in the news again. The US may be starting a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum...

From David Beckworth’s podcast series, Macro Musings comes this audio of an interview with Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on Rent-Seeking ...

A couple of years back in an email about my book The Theory of the Firm: An overview of the economic mainstream  I wrote: The other thing ...

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...