Anti-Dismal

Widely considered as one the most influential economists of the 20th century, F. A. Hayek continues to command the attention of scholars wi...

From the Peterson Institute for International Economics comes this interview in which Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown talk with Stephen Reddi...

Harold Demsetz has passed away. He was a longtime member of the UCLA economics department and one area he wrote on was the theory of the fir...

From  Newmedia at UFM.edu comes this 2001 video of   A Conversation with Ronald Coase .

CEO's face relatively stronger incentives from their compensation package than from the threat of dismissal, so a firm should put a l...

This seems an obvious question which many people would assume would have an obvious answer. And yet it doesn't. No one can agree on a ...

From the Peterson Institute for International Economics comes this interview in which Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown talk with Paul Krugman ...

Welcome to our Christmas special - 2018: A Year in Review. Joining our Associate Director Kate Andrews today is IEA Director General Mark...

Peter Robinson at Uncommon Knowledge of the Hoover Institution interviews Thomas Sowell about the myths of economic inequality. Thomas So...

From the Cato Insitute comes this Cato Daily Podcast in which Caleb O. Brown interviews David Bier on the question of How effective would...

From History Twins Podcast comes this interview with Dr. Stephen Davies of the IEA involving topics from the Norman Conquest all the way t...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 62 , August 2018) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .

The Journal of Economic Literature , a journal of the American Economic Association , sets out to fulfil the following policy: Our policy ...

Up to December 31st Routledge is having a sale which gives a 20% discount if you buy one book and a 25% discount if you buy two. So you c...

An interesting, if somewhat counterintuitive, question. One could expect that a firm with more managerial ownership would be worth more sinc...

The Cato Institute Human Freedom Index is out for 2018. The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on...

From Conversations with Tyler comes this audio in which Tyler Cowen interviews economic historian Professor John Nye. Is John Nye the fi...

This essay looks at the contribution made by pre-1870 writers to what would later become the neoclassical theory of the firm. In particular ...

From Conversations with Bill Kristol comes this interview with Scott Lincicome on a defense of free trade. Scott Lincicome is a leading i...

From David Beckworth’s podcast series, Macro Musings comes this audio of an interview with Don Boudreaux on Free Trade, Protectionism, and...