Anti-Dismal

From ReasonTV . When The New York Times launched its 1619 Project last year, it sought to "reframe the country's history by placi...

From NPR 's Planet Money comes this podcast on Lives Vs. the Economy . Hosts Sarah Gonzalez and Kenny Malone interview Betsey Stevenson...

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight talks to Kristian Niemietz (@k_niemietz). Kristian is Head of Political Economy at IEA London a...

The second draft of a chapter which looks at attacks made on the neoclassical theory of production in the period 1940-1970 The neoclassic...

From the Capitalisn't podcast comes this episode on the cost-benefit analysis of the coronavirus crisis in which Luigi Zinglas and Kat...

Thanks to a comment from Michael Reddell my attention has been drawn to the discussion of Socal Credit that appears in the report of the Ne...

There is a new NBER working paper out on Measuring the Cost of Regulation: A Text-Based Approach by Charles W. Calomiris, Harry Mamaysky ...

Of the ideas that economists have to deal with every so often, one of the stranger ones is that of Social Credit monetary theory. Here in N...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 66 , December 2019) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information

A basic assumption of the neoclassical model of production is that production is carried out in a technically efficient manner.(1) Leibenste...

The Winter 2020 issue ( vol. 34, no. 1 ) of the Journal of Economic Perspectives contains an article that looks at The Consequences of Trea...

A brief chronology of the development of the idea of perfect competition. We start with Counot and end with Knight A very brief history o...

Rent controls really are a bad idea. There isn’t much disagreement among economists about what a national rent control policy would do to ...

From Uncommon Knowledg e comes this interview of Sir Roger Scruton by Peter Robinson. Sir Roger Scruton was an English writer and philosop...

From LearnIOE comes this video of Professor Peter Klein discussing the empirical literature on the firm. The research literature on the e...

From the IEA in London comes their annual review of the last year: Find out in our round-up of 2019, who the IEA’s Director General Mark ...

From Bloggingheads.tv comes this interview of David Neumark by Glenn Loury about the effects of the minimum wage.

The recently released Renationalisation: Back to the Future? by Julian Jessop and Len Shackleton is number 72 in the IEA 's Current Con...

From the IEA comes this audio of an interview of Steve Davies by Kate Andrews: How can we make sense of the political realignment taking...

This podcast from Words and Numbers discusses the advantages and disadvantages of patents. The patents discussion starts around 12 minutes....