Anti-Dismal

Dave Rubin interviews Jeffrey Tucker (Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research) in two parts. Part 2 here covers...

Dave Rubin interviews Jeffrey Tucker (Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research) in two parts. Part 1 here covers...

Who owns a firm and why? Investor-owned firms are the most common form of ownership for large-scale enterprises in most of the world, but in...

Peter Robinson at Uncommon Knowledge of the Hoover Institution interviews Stephen Kotkin about his book Joseph Stalin: Waiting For Hitler....

Peter Robinson at Uncommon Knowledge of the Hoover Institution interviews Stephen Kotkin about Joseph Stalin and collectivisation and the ...

Using data on Portuguese firms this new working paper looks at the relationship between competition and firm productivity. And, not too surp...

Codetermination is the practice of workers of a firm being able to vote for representatives on the board of directors in an enterprise. It h...

From the  Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast comes this interview of Ross Emmett by Scott Scheall. In this...

It has long been recognised that vertical integration can enhance efficiency. It can deal with hold-up problems etc. But horizontal integrat...

From the IEA comes this interview of Professor Vernon Smith by Kate Andrews. Professor Smith gives his analysis of current economic trend...

From the Hayek Program Podcast comes this audio in which Peter Boettke interviews Bruce Caldwell on the life and work of F.A. Hayek. On t...

From The Economist magazine comes their latest iteration of the Big Mac Index : On the raw data version, shown above, the New Zealand ...

Dan Anderberg spends a couple of mintues talking about his research on the link between unemployment and domestic violence.

At a time when economics and politics are both increasingly polarized between left and right, this book, Adam Smith: What He Thought, and W...

This note is a brief explanation for comments I made in an interesting twitter exchange with @LewSOS. To start lets us define a socialist ...

I've just noticed that the Book Depository is offering 20% off on my two favourite books right now. The Theory of the Firm: An...

The short answer is, most likely, no. Two minutes on this question from Dave Donaldson. Examples of geographical clustering in industries,...

I was beginning to wonder. Now go out and buy it! All of you!!

The sources of racial disparities in income have been debated for decades. This column uses data on 20 million children and their parents t...

While it is a widely held belief that youth and entrepreneurship go hand in hand, research finds that more successful entrepreneurs laun...