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David Henderson

Don Boudreaux Responds to Me and I Respond to Don

Trade and Exchange Mar 26 2025

A Rare Disagreement with Veronique de Rugy and Don Boudreaux about International Trade

International Trade Mar 24 2025

My Weekly Reading for March 23, 2025

Energy, Environment, Resources Mar 23 2025

My New Thought about DOGE

Fiscal Policy Mar 20 2025

Manuel Klausner, Joyous Libertarian

Liberty Mar 19 2025

Social Security: The Proposal

Social Security Mar 17 2025

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for March 16, 2025

Economics of Health Care Mar 16 2025

Social Security: Flawed from the Start

Social Security Mar 14 2025

Tariffs

International Trade Mar 13 2025

Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme

Social Security Mar 11 2025

David Bier on Legal Immigration

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Mar 10 2025

My Weekly Reading for March 9, 2025

Central Planning Mar 9 2025

Herb Stein on Balance of Payments

International Macroeconomics Mar 7 2025

Henderson on Canada as a 51st State

Competition Mar 6 2025

Was this Kuznets Idea "Stupid"?

Economic Methods Mar 3 2025

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for March 2, 2025

Liberty Mar 2 2025

Pierre Poilievre on Canada's Dysfunctional Energy Policy

Energy, Environment, Resources Feb 28 2025

Russ and Pete's Excellent Adventure into the Socialist Calculation Debate

Austrian Economics Feb 26 2025

My Weekly Reading for February 23, 2025

Foreign Policy Feb 23 2025

Why I’m Not Very Worried about the 2032 Asteroid

Cost-benefit Analysis Feb 21 2025

The Benefits of Free Trade Are at Risk

International Trade Feb 20 2025

The Tension in Discussions of Tariff Burdens

International Trade Feb 19 2025

Stephanie King on Getting Rid of the Penny

Monetary Policy Feb 18 2025

I, Can

Business Economics Feb 17 2025

My Weekly Reading for February 16, 2025

Regulation Feb 16 2025

Are Conflicts of Interest at the FDA a Big Problem?

Economics of Health Care Feb 15 2025

California's New Fuel Standards Hurt the Poor, with Little Environment Benefit

Energy, Environment, Resources Feb 12 2025

The Limits of Deep Research

Cost-benefit Analysis Feb 11 2025

My Weekly Reading for February 9, 2025

Economics of Education Feb 9 2025

The 1989 Repeal of an Entitlement

Economics of Health Care Feb 7 2025

Deadweight Loss From Taxes is Proportional to the Square of the Tax Rate

Taxation Feb 4 2025

Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both

Taxation Feb 3 2025

My Weekly Reading for February 2, 2025

Economics of Health Care Feb 2 2025

California Burning: Causes and the Way Forward

Property Rights Jan 31 2025

Some Numeracy About Tariffs on Tequila

Business Economics Jan 28 2025

Tariffs on Canada and Mexico Are Way Worse Than Tariffs on China

International Trade Jan 27 2025

My Weekly Reading for January 26, 2025

Jan 26 2025

Cat Cardiologists, Howard Hughes, Symphony Music, and Economic Growth

Economic Growth Jan 24 2025

I Win My Recent Inaugural Bet

Politics and Economics Jan 20 2025

My Weekly Reading for January 19, 2025

International Trade Jan 19 2025

A Coase Story about Gambling

History of Economic Thought Jan 17 2025

Thank Goodness He Didn't Spend All of It

Fiscal Policy Jan 16 2025

Why A Canada/U.S. Union is a Bad Idea

Public Choice Theory Jan 15 2025

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for January 12, 2025

Competition Jan 12 2025

Critics of Free Markets Strike Out

Free Markets Jan 9 2025

A Longer-Term Simon/Ehrlich Bet

Economic Growth Jan 8 2025

The Reluctant Activist, or Not Only Can You Fight City Hall, You Can Actually Win

Public Choice Theory Jan 6 2025

My Reading and Viewing for January 5, 2025

Economics of Health Care Jan 5 2025

Saving Money by Not Spending

Economic Education Jan 3 2025

My Top Ten EconLog Posts of 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jan 2 2025

Taxocracy

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Dec 30 2024

My Weekly Reading for December 29, 2024

College Economics Topics Dec 29 2024

Two Thalidomide Disasters

Economics of Health Care Dec 26 2024

We're Number 17! We're Number 17!

Economic Institutions Dec 23 2024

My Weekly Reading for December 22, 2024

Economics of Health Care Dec 21 2024

Confusing Wealth and Consumption

Finance Dec 20 2024

Tariffs Hurt Canadians and Americans

International Trade Dec 19 2024

Working for Change in Democratic Politics

Politics and Economics Dec 16 2024

My Weekly Reading for December 15, 2024

Cross-country Comparisons Dec 15 2024

Crypto, Investment, and Intrinsic Value

Cryptocurrency Dec 11 2024

How to Get Rich Slowly

Finance Dec 10 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for December 8, 2024

Economics of Crime Dec 8 2024

Does National Security Justify Trade Restrictions?

Adam Smith Dec 6 2024

Jeff Hummel on Tether

Dec 5 2024

What Cass Sunstein Omits in Discussing DOGE

Regulation Dec 4 2024

The Bitter Irony of the Attack on U.S. Steel

International Trade Dec 3 2024

My Weekly Reading for December 1, 2024

Fiscal Policy Dec 1 2024

Is Econ Grad School a Good Idea?

Economic Education Nov 30 2024

Would Cutting the Number of Medicare Employees Save Money?

Economics of Health Care Nov 27 2024

My Weekly Reading for November 24, 2024

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 24 2024

The Wall Street Journal's Misleading Subhead About Oil Companies

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 23 2024

Great Moments in Compulsory Government IDs

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 20 2024

Should You Be a College Professor?

College Economics Topics Nov 18 2024

My Weekly Reading for November 17, 2024

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 17 2024

A Nobel Prize in Economics for the ‘Inclusive’ Free Market

Economic Growth Nov 15 2024

Find the Math Error

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 13 2024

Juliette Sellgren Interviews Henderson on the Latest Nobel Prize Winners

Economic Growth Nov 11 2024

My Weekly Reading for November 10, 2024

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 10 2024

My Personal Prediction Machine

Economic Institutions Nov 7 2024

Martin Anderson on Ronald Reagan's Smarts

Central Planning Nov 5 2024

The "Opportunity" to Get Cancer

Economic History Nov 4 2024

My Weekly Reading for November 3, 2024

Economic Growth Nov 3 2024

Why Trade Should Be Free

Free Markets Oct 30 2024

Thomas Gale Moore RIP

Energy, Environment, Resources Oct 29 2024

Californians, If They're Like the Rest of America, Have Already Answered

Energy, Environment, Resources Oct 28 2024

My Weekly Reading for October 27, 2024

Central Planning Oct 27 2024

We're Number 4; We're Number 4!

Economic Education Oct 24 2024

Bryan Caplan on the UAE

Labor Market Oct 21 2024

My Weekly Reading for October 20, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 20 2024

Trafficking versus Voluntary Prostitution

Economics of Crime Oct 18 2024

Acemoglu and Robinson Basically Ignored Adam Smith

Adam Smith Oct 17 2024

U.S. Politicians Push for Ukraine to Reduce Freedom Further

Labor Market Oct 15 2024

Henderson on the Latest Nobel Prize in Economics

History of Economic Thought Oct 15 2024

Are Sex Workers Necessarily Engaged in Trafficking?

Business Economics Oct 14 2024

California Bureaucrat Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

Public Choice Theory Oct 14 2024

My Weekly Reading for October 13, 2024

History of Economic Thought Oct 13 2024

Notes on Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society"

Central Planning Oct 9 2024

NBA Players' Average Height and Canada's Fall in Real GDP Per Capita

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Oct 8 2024

My Weekly Reading for October 6, 2024

International Trade Oct 6 2024

How to Help Consumers

Competition Oct 4 2024

My October 1 Talk at OLLI

Fiscal Policy Oct 2 2024

My Weekly Reading for September 29, 2024

Central Planning Sep 29 2024

Is There a Good Case for Requiring Gasoline Sellers to Carry Minimum Reserves?

Energy, Environment, Resources Sep 27 2024

A Possible Correction on Milton Friedman's "Isolation"

History of Economic Thought Sep 26 2024

My Weekly Reading for September 22, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 22 2024

A Blind Economist's Insight

History of Economic Thought Sep 20 2024

The Loss in Revenue to Pharma from Medicare Price Negotiation

Business Economics Sep 18 2024

The Perversity of Medicare for All

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 16 2024

My Weekly Reading for September 15, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 15 2024

Lipow on the Relationship Between Home Ownership and Unemployment

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 13 2024

Subsidies to the Press Endanger Free Speech

Liberty Sep 12 2024

Whatever Happened to Equal Pay for Equal Work?

Economics and Culture Sep 10 2024

My Weekly Reading for September 8, 2024

History of Economic Thought Sep 8 2024

Benson Interviews Henderson on COVID, Lockdowns, and Monetary Policy

Monetary Policy Sep 6 2024

The Isolated Milton Friedman

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 4 2024

My Weekly Reading for September 1, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 1 2024

Final Notes on The Nazi Officer's Wife

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 31 2024

The Supply Web

Business Economics Aug 29 2024

Further Thoughts on The Nazi Officer's Wife

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 26 2024

Highlights of My Weekly Reading, August 25, 2024

Business Economics Aug 25 2024

Economic Vignettes from The Nazi Officer's Wife

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 24 2024

The Nazi War on Wealth

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 23 2024

Bryan Caplan Understates Case for Immigration

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 21 2024

News on My Health

Economics of Health Care Aug 20 2024

Competition Works, Even in Health Care

Business Economics Aug 17 2024

CVS's Clever Marketing

Business Economics Aug 15 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for August 11, 2024, Part 2

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 11 2024

My Weekly Reading for August 11, 2024, Part 1

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 11 2024

Drew Benson Interviews Henderson on COVID Lockdowns, Hayek, and Behavioral Economics

Behavioral Economics Aug 9 2024

The Draft Would Reduce Skin in the Game for Most Citizens

Labor Market Aug 5 2024

My Weekly Reading for August 4, 2024

Economic Education Aug 4 2024

The Case Against Compulsory National Service

Liberty Aug 2 2024

Teaching Economics

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 1 2024

My Weekly Reading for July 28, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 28 2024

Happy 100th Birthday to Arnold Harberger

History of Economic Thought Jul 27 2024

What Happened to the Mixed Economy?

Free Markets Jul 23 2024

Timmons on Occupational Licensing

Labor Market Jul 22 2024

My Weekly Reading for July 21, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 21 2024

Progressive Jonathan Lipow Defends Economics

Adam Smith Jul 19 2024

Jonathan Lipow Is a Fair-Minded Progressive

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 18 2024

A Contradiction in Hayek's Famous 1945 Article

Information Goods, Intellectual Property Jul 16 2024

Highlights of My Weekly Reading for July 14, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 14 2024

Alan Reynolds on "Shelter Prices" and Inflation

Money and Inflation Jul 13 2024

A Win-Win-Win-Win on EV Policy

International Trade Jul 8 2024

My Weekly Reading for July 7, 2024

Labor Market Jul 7 2024

Jeopardy's Defective Understanding of Inflation

Money and Inflation Jul 5 2024

Comments on Richard Ebeling and Geoffrey Lea on the Austrian School

Austrian Economics Jul 3 2024

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Need to Be Extended Because They Don't Expire

Taxation Jul 2 2024

The South Royalton Discussion is All Online

Austrian Economics Jul 1 2024

My Weekly Reading for June 30, 2024

Business Economics Jun 30 2024

Henderson on Burns on Milton Friedman

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 28 2024

Ray Kurzweil on How AI Will Transform Energy, Manufacturing, and Medicine

Business Economics Jun 27 2024

My Weekly Reading for June 23, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 23 2024

Henderson Review of Build, Baby, Build

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 20 2024

Should Advising Clients on How to Find Customers for a Legal Good Be a Crime?

Business Economics Jun 18 2024

Bonus Weekly Reading for June 16, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 16 2024

My Weekly Reading for June 16, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 16 2024

Should We Reexamine Adam Smith's Views of Animals?

Free Markets Jun 13 2024

Henderson on South Royalton Austrian Conference

History of Economic Thought Jun 12 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for June 9, 2024

Energy, Environment, Resources Jun 9 2024

How to Give U.S. Car Buyers, Environmentalists, Free Traders, and U.S. Auto Workers Much of What They Want

Energy, Environment, Resources Jun 7 2024

Thinking on the Margin in Politics

Economic Methods Jun 5 2024

Adam Smith as Founding Father

Adam Smith Jun 4 2024

The Relationship between CO2 and Global Warming

Energy, Environment, Resources Jun 3 2024

My Weekly Reading for June 2, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 2 2024

Economists are Less Selfish than the Average Person

Cost-benefit Analysis May 31 2024

The Fight for Memorial Day

Foreign Policy May 29 2024

Brigadoon versus the Hockey Stick

Economic Growth May 28 2024

Highlights of My Weekly Reading for May 26, 2024

Foreign Policy May 26 2024

How Did We Get Good Growth in the 1950s Despite High Marginal Tax Rates?

Economic Growth May 23 2024

Tom Hazlett on the TikTok Ban

Business Economics May 22 2024

My Weekly Reading for May 19, 2024

Energy, Environment, Resources May 19 2024

"Junk Fees" Typically Serve an Important Purpose

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 17 2024

Some of the Awful Effects of Price Controls on Oil

Energy, Environment, Resources May 15 2024

Ryan Bourne's Supremacy

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 14 2024

Tariffs Do Cause a Slight Temporary Increase in Inflation

International Trade May 13 2024

My Reading Highlights for Week of May 12

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 12 2024

Are Businesses Hard-Hearted?

Business Economics May 9 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for May 5, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 5 2024

Robert Hessen on the Industrial Revolution

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 2 2024

Let Them In and Let Them Work

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing May 1 2024

My Weekly Reading for April 28, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 28 2024

Robert MacNeil's Axiom

Economics of Crime Apr 28 2024

How to Hobble the Fast-Food Industry and Fast-Food Jobs

Labor Market Apr 25 2024

Great Moments in Denying Reality

Price Controls Apr 24 2024

Is Our Way of Electing a President Really that Unusual?

Public Choice Theory Apr 22 2024

My Weekly Reading for April 21, 2024

Cost-benefit Analysis Apr 21 2024

There Are Degrees of Disavowal

Public Choice Theory Apr 20 2024

Robert Hessen RIP

Business Economics Apr 18 2024

Military Age Males

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Apr 16 2024

My Weekly Reading for April 14, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 14 2024

Pregnancy Discrimination Act Reduces Women's Economic Freedom

Family Economics Apr 12 2024

Further Decline in the Value of the Costco Hot Dog

Business Economics Apr 11 2024

My Weekly Reading for April 8, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 8 2024

An Added Perversity of the $8 Cap on Late Fees

Price Controls Apr 7 2024

Biden's Economists Are Pretty Decent on Free Trade

International Trade Apr 5 2024

Missouri Voters Vote Against Wealth Redistribution

Taxation Apr 4 2024

My Weekly Reading for March 31, 2024

Central Planning Mar 31 2024

Kahneman, Henderson, and Hooper on Biases and Bases

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 29 2024

Daniel Kahneman RIP

Obituaries Mar 27 2024

Ludwig Lachmann Biography

Austrian Economics Mar 25 2024

My Weekly Reading for March 24, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 24 2024

The EV Bloodbath

International Trade Mar 23 2024

Build, Bryan, Build!

Regulation Mar 21 2024

A Victory for Freedom of Choice

Liberty Mar 18 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for March 17, 2024.

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 17 2024

Looking Back At COVID’s Authoritarian Regimes

Regulation and Subsidies Mar 15 2024

Trudeau Tries to Implement Minority Report

Liberty Mar 14 2024

Batchelor Interviews Henderson on Adam Smith and Chinese EVs

Adam Smith Mar 12 2024

My Biweekly Reading for March 10, 2024

Economics of Crime Mar 10 2024

Why High Drug Prices are Good for Us Americans

International Trade Mar 8 2024

Lawrence O'Donnell Makes Good Point Innumerately

Statistical theory and methods Mar 6 2024

The Cheap Labor Addiction?

Labor Market Mar 5 2024

The Good Old Days?

Regulation Mar 3 2024

Immigration Makes Federal Debt Lower than Otherwise

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Mar 1 2024

Newsom Puts People Through the Sausage Grinder

Feb 28 2024

Gemini on David R. Henderson

Information Goods, Intellectual Property Feb 28 2024

Did Adam Smith Anticipate the Idea of Comparative Advantage?

Adam Smith Feb 27 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 25, 2024

Government Growth Feb 25 2024

Thomas Piketty versus Taylor Swift

Feb 24 2024

David Friedman on the Contributions of Immigrants

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Feb 23 2024

Indirect Evidence for the Magness and Makovi Hypothesis About Karl Marx

History of Economic Thought Feb 22 2024

Maybe Clarke and Rice Are Both Right

Central Planning Feb 21 2024

I Win a Bet that I Had Forgotten

Foreign Policy Feb 20 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 18, 2024

Economic Methods Feb 18 2024

Economic Inequality: Popular Misconceptions and Important Facts

Income Distribution Feb 16 2024

Reducing Income Inequality by Making People Worse Off

Labor Market Feb 15 2024

A Fundamental Difference between Debates in Sports versus Politics

Economic Methods Feb 13 2024

My Weekly Reading for February 11, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Feb 11 2024

Effect of Global Warming on Wealth

Economic Growth Feb 10 2024

Thoughts on Michael Oren's Claims about Israel and Gaza

Moral Reasoning Feb 9 2024

Michael Oren and Marc Joffe Agree on No Aid to Israel

Cross-country Comparisons Feb 8 2024

Pondering a Civil Grand Jury

Cost-benefit Analysis Feb 7 2024

The Case for High Drug Prices

Business Economics Feb 6 2024

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 4, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Feb 4 2024

Robert Graboyes on the Minds of Economists

Economic Education Feb 1 2024

The Day Milei Socked it to the Davos Crowd

Liberty Feb 1 2024

Milton Friedman on Government as the Problem

Public Choice Theory Jan 30 2024

My Weekly Reading, January 28, 2024

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jan 28 2024

Jeopardy Blows the Great Depression

Business Cycles Jan 27 2024

A Counterexample to Holcombe's View on Preferences

Public Choice Theory Jan 27 2024

Pondering How the World Has Changed

Economic Growth Jan 25 2024

Zwolinski's Deficient Defense of a UBI

Economic and Political Philosophy Jan 24 2024

Making a Difference and Serving the Public

Business Economics Jan 22 2024

My Weekly Reading

Income Distribution Jan 21 2024

Cray 1978 versus iPhone 2022

Economic Growth Jan 20 2024

Tabling TABOR

Government Growth Jan 19 2024

Is the United States Beyond Hope?

Media Watch Jan 18 2024

George Mason University Goes Woke

Education Jan 17 2024

Why Is Weed So Potent?

Regulation Jan 17 2024

My Weekly Reading

Energy, Environment, Resources Jan 14 2024

How Timur Kuran Changed My Thinking

Education Jan 13 2024

Milton Friedman Was an Infuriating Man

History of Economic Thought Jan 12 2024

How Malthus Got It Wrong

Economic Growth Jan 11 2024

Good News on Canadian Citizenship for Russian

Liberty Jan 10 2024

Frank Knight's Switch on Price Controls

Economic History Jan 9 2024

My Weekly Reading

Fiscal Policy Jan 7 2024

Citizen Bezos and Citizen Kane

Business Economics Jan 6 2024

Does a Trade Deficit Imply Trade Debt?

Business Economics Jan 5 2024

Is Capitalism Soulless?

Business Economics Jan 4 2024

On Claudine Gay, Charles Fried Blows Reasoning 101

Moral Reasoning Jan 2 2024

My Weekly Reading

Jan 1 2024

Adam Smith, Radical

Adam Smith Dec 28 2023

Government versus For-Profit Private Sector

Business Economics Dec 27 2023

Adam Smith Discovers the Laffer Curve

Incentives Dec 26 2023

Merry Christmas from the Henderson Household

Dec 25 2023

Adam Smith on Lotteries

Cost-benefit Analysis Dec 24 2023

Confusing Inputs with Outputs

Economic Education Dec 23 2023

The Profound Wisdom and Humanitarianism of Adam Smith

Adam Smith Dec 20 2023

Are Dollar Stores Bad for People Who Buy From Them?

Business Cycles Dec 19 2023

My Weekly Reading

Taxation Dec 18 2023

FCC Kneejerk: Regulate

Regulation Dec 16 2023

Free Speech is Needed for All Speech

Economics and Culture Dec 15 2023

"Let the Players Decide the Game"

Competition Dec 12 2023

Money is Fungible #3241

Economic Education Dec 11 2023

Adam Smith as Moral Philosopher

Adam Smith Dec 11 2023

My Weekly Reading and Viewing

Foreign Policy Dec 10 2023

Air Traffic Controllers with Severe Intellectual Disability?

Labor Market Dec 9 2023

Javier Milei's Economic Understanding

Free Markets Dec 8 2023

Micromanaging Car Radios

Regulation Dec 6 2023

An EV Canary in the Coal Mine?

Regulation Dec 4 2023

A Passionate Panel on Parking. Really?

Regulation Dec 2 2023

A Surprise About Canada's Mac and Cheese

International Trade Nov 30 2023

Napoleon on the Law of Demand

Economics and Culture Nov 29 2023

Charlie Munger, RIP

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 28 2023

Henderson at ASU Conference this Friday

Regulation Nov 27 2023

Dollarization in Argentina

Money and Inflation Nov 27 2023

Freedom in the 50 States

Liberty Nov 25 2023

Economics in My Early Work Life

Economic Education Nov 24 2023

Thanksgiving Thankfulness

Economic and Political Philosophy Nov 23 2023

How Much Does $100 Billion in Federal Spending Cost You?

Fiscal Policy Nov 22 2023

Five Young Black Men Watching and Discussing Thomas Sowell

Economic History Nov 21 2023

My Weekly Reading and Viewing

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Nov 19 2023

EV Nightmares

Business Economics Nov 18 2023

Underappreciated Wisdom from William Niskanen

Economic Growth Nov 17 2023

Jus in Bello

Foreign Policy Nov 16 2023

Value is Subjective

Economics of Health Care Nov 15 2023

Perverse Tax Policy

Incentives Nov 12 2023

A Veterans Day Tribute to Dick Timberlake

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 11 2023

Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize

Economic History Nov 10 2023

Chris Freiman's Unpersuasive Case for a UBI

Fiscal Policy Nov 9 2023

Ask and You May Receive

Business Economics Nov 8 2023

When to Collect Social Security is a Tough Problem

Social Security Nov 7 2023

Adam Smith on War's Innocent Victims

Adam Smith Nov 5 2023

Why Industrial Policy Fails

Regulation and Subsidies Oct 30 2023

My Weekly Reading

Industrial Organization Oct 29 2023

Massachusetts Cuts and Complicates Taxes

Taxation Oct 28 2023

Is Gaza an Open Air Prison?

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Oct 27 2023

Taylor Swift Discovers Public Choice

Public Choice Theory Oct 26 2023

Valuable Student Exercises

Economic Education Oct 25 2023

How Information Quickly Reduced Prejudice in a For-Profit Firm

Business Economics Oct 24 2023

Was the Quadrupling of Oil Prices Due to the Increased Price of Gold?

Money and Inflation Oct 21 2023

Milton Friedman on How Trade Created Peace in Middle East

Free Markets Oct 19 2023

How Claudia Goldin's Early Innocence Probably Led to Deeper Insight

Economic Methods Oct 18 2023

Legalizing Weed Changes Who Bears Costs and Gets Benefits

Cost-benefit Analysis Oct 17 2023

Highlights of My Weekly Reading and Viewing

Foreign Policy Oct 15 2023

Other People's Money Speeches Show the Seen and the Unseen

Business Economics Oct 14 2023

Does a Small Number of Immigrants Upset the Apple Cart?

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Oct 13 2023

Iowa Has an Amazing History on Taxes

Tax Reform Oct 12 2023

Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize

Family Economics Oct 10 2023

Can We Learn From Past Thinkers?

Adam Smith Oct 9 2023

Hillary Clinton's Disturbing Comments on Deprogramming and People's Freedom

Liberty Oct 7 2023

Start!

Productivity Oct 7 2023

Paved with Unintended Consequences

Regulation Oct 6 2023

Trudeau's New Censorship

Liberty Oct 5 2023

Adam Smith on Economic Plenty

Adam Smith Oct 4 2023

Henderson on The Chile Project

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 2 2023

Highlights of My Weekly Reading and Viewing

Business Economics Oct 1 2023

Henderson on Illegal Weed

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 30 2023

Whatever We Are Doing is Wrong

Business Economics Sep 29 2023

Background for Tonight's Republican Debate

Government Growth Sep 27 2023

Who Won the Caplan/Brook Debate?

Competition Sep 27 2023

Why Is Sound Money in the Economic Freedom Index?

Liberty Sep 26 2023

My Reflections on Cohen's Case for Reparations

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 25 2023

Highlights from My Week's Reading

Business Economics Sep 24 2023

We're Number 5, We're Number 5

Free Markets Sep 23 2023

Biden Is NOT the Country's CEO

Political Economy Sep 20 2023

Mr. Wonderful Isn't

Government Growth Sep 20 2023

Alex Nowrasteh on Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Sep 18 2023

Reading Highlights from My Week

Free Markets Sep 17 2023

Reducing "Tax Expenditures" Can Hurt Economic Growth

Economic Growth Sep 16 2023

Henderson Response to a Particularly Weak NYT Editorial on Antitrust

Competition Sep 15 2023

Council Member Unwittingly Argues Against His Own View

Price Controls Sep 14 2023

The Large Benefits of Short-Term Health Insurance

Competition Sep 13 2023

Apple Endorses Bill to Hobble Smaller Competitors

Public Choice Theory Sep 12 2023

The Language of Dissent

Competition Sep 11 2023

Rent Stabilization IS Rent Control

Price Controls Sep 9 2023

Impossible to Save?

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 8 2023

Matt Stoller's View of Motives

Moral Reasoning Sep 6 2023

Einav's and Finkelstein's Bizarre View of Libertarians

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 5 2023

What Did Labor Unions Contribute?

Labor Market Sep 4 2023

Trump Was Wrong: Sweden Did It Right

Public Health Sep 4 2023

Highlights of My Week's Reading and Viewing

Central Planning Sep 3 2023

Be an Empiricist

Public Choice Theory Sep 2 2023

The Bizarre Economics of Tax Expenditures

Taxation Aug 31 2023

Economic Freedom and Virtue are Correlated

Free Markets Aug 30 2023

A Basic Error in Rebellions, Rascals, and Revenue

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 30 2023

The Power of Gratitude

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 27 2023

A Flawed Case for Centrally Planned Health Insurance

Central Planning Aug 25 2023

Has Manufacturing Hollowed Out?

Business Economics Aug 23 2023

Land Acknowledgement for Aldine Independent School District

Property Rights Aug 22 2023

You're Suffering? Then Suffer More

Property Rights Aug 21 2023

James L. Buckley, RIP

Liberty Aug 19 2023

Highlights of My Week's Reading

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Aug 19 2023

Can You Be a Scholar Outside of Academia? Meet Phil Magness

Labor Market Aug 18 2023

Thoughts of a Rich Man West of Richmond

Economic and Political Philosophy Aug 16 2023

August 15, 1971: A Day That Should Live in Infamy

Price Controls Aug 15 2023

Can the U.S. President Affect World Oil Prices?

Energy, Environment, Resources Aug 12 2023

Gender Pay Gap at the White House

Labor Market Aug 11 2023

Reminiscences of Harry Watson and Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics Aug 9 2023

On the Heat Wave, CBS Is Among the Worst

Energy, Environment, Resources Aug 8 2023

A Lesson in Local Politics

Politics and Economics Aug 7 2023

Don't Trade SALT for Broccoli

Tax Reform Aug 5 2023

Cut the Growth of Federal Spending

Fiscal Policy Aug 4 2023

Excellent Insights into Barack Obama

Revealed Preference Aug 4 2023

Do They Control What You are Allowed to See?

Information Goods, Intellectual Property Aug 3 2023

I Miss Milton Friedman

Economic and Political Philosophy Aug 2 2023

Check Your Axes

Media Watch Aug 1 2023

David Friedman on the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide

Cost-benefit Analysis Jul 31 2023

James Otteson on Adam Smith

Adam Smith Jul 27 2023

The Wonder of Technological Improvement

Economic Growth Jul 26 2023

Impressions of Winnipeg

Business Economics Jul 25 2023

The Invisible Hand at Work

Business Economics Jul 24 2023

Was Portugal's Experience with Drug Decriminalization So Bad?

Economics of Crime Jul 20 2023

Seven Days to Petrograd on Responsibility

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 19 2023

Purchasing Power Parity Between Canada and the United States: A Sample Point

International Trade Jul 17 2023

The Surprising Beneficiaries of American Slavery

Cost-benefit Analysis Jul 15 2023

A Skeptical Look at How Economists and Others Often Use the Term Market Failure

Free Markets Jul 13 2023

Corporate Income Taxation

Taxation Jul 12 2023

Pre Obamacare, Did Health Insurance Companies Refuse to Insure a Lot of People

Economics of Health Care Jul 11 2023

Living

Central Planning Jul 10 2023

Social Security as an Inflation-Indexed Bond

Finance Jul 9 2023

State Governments Continue to Cut Income Tax Rates

Taxation Jul 8 2023

Henderson Responds to Cliff Winston

Central Planning Jul 7 2023

Clifford Winston Responds

Law and Economics Jul 6 2023

Jeff Hummel on the Huge Benefits from the American Revolution

Economic History Jul 4 2023

Swaim's Lame Take on Libertarianism

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 4 2023

Cliff Winston on Judges and Courts

Cost-benefit Analysis Jul 3 2023

Problems with Mass EV Adoption

Energy, Environment, Resources Jul 1 2023

Response to Kevin Corcoran on Moral Authority

Incentives Jun 29 2023

Right to Privacy or Right to Property

Moral Reasoning Jun 27 2023

Pro-Business Movies

Business Economics Jun 26 2023

California Legislature Requires Discrimination Against High-Income People

Regulation and Subsidies Jun 25 2023

DEI, Racial Categorization, and South Africa

Moral Reasoning Jun 23 2023

Risks, the Titan Submarine, and K2

Business Economics Jun 23 2023

Price Controls Cause Insurance Shortage in California

Price Controls Jun 22 2023

Tammy Duckworth Will Have Blood on Her Hands

Regulation Jun 21 2023

Cowen and Piper on EA, AI, War, Peace, Pandemics, and Economics

Cost-benefit Analysis Jun 20 2023

Patricia Cohen's Mix of Truth, Falsehood, and Confusion

International Trade Jun 19 2023

Sellgren Great Antidote Interview with Henderson

Adam Smith Jun 17 2023

Is Medicare Coercing Merck?

Business Economics Jun 16 2023

My Obit for Robert E. Lucas Jr.

Economic Growth Jun 15 2023

The U.S. Tax Rate on Capital is Rising

Tax Reform Jun 14 2023

Sam Peltzman on Industrial Deconcentration

Business Economics Jun 13 2023

James Mackintosh's Misunderstanding of Markets

Competition Jun 12 2023

I Disagree with Bob Poole on Zoning

Central Planning Jun 11 2023

A Stunning Subsidy Graph

Regulation and Subsidies Jun 10 2023

Destructive Energy Policies in the United States and California

Jun 8 2023

Buy Your New Dishwasher Now

Regulation Jun 7 2023

A Tribute to Adam Smith

Adam Smith Jun 6 2023

The Tragedy of the Republican Presidential Commons

Competition Jun 3 2023

The "Regulate the Labor Market" Act

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Jun 2 2023

‘Air’ Is a Cautionary Tale About ESG

Business Economics May 31 2023

Allyn Young on War and Peace

History of Economic Thought May 30 2023

Man's Search for Meaning versus Ain't It Awful?

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 29 2023

Markets Create Some Peace Even Between Russia and Ukraine

Incentives May 26 2023

Distribution versus Growth

Economic Growth May 25 2023

The Cost of Child Care Regulation

May 24 2023

Housing is Scarce? Then Fine Those Who Provide It

Regulation May 22 2023

John Tamny's Confusions

Free Markets May 22 2023

Sargent on Lucas

Business Cycles May 21 2023

The Scary Future Federal Debt

Fiscal Policy May 19 2023

We Need Another George Harrison

Tax Reform May 18 2023

Robert Lucas's Nobel Speech

Macroeconomics May 17 2023

Robert E. Lucas, RIP

Obituaries May 16 2023

Stanley Engerman RIP

Economic History May 15 2023

Margery Smelkinson on Natural Immunity

Public Health May 13 2023

Charley Hooper Testifies on Ivermectin

Cost-benefit Analysis May 13 2023

Michael Spence's Incomplete Case for Industrial Policy

Business Economics May 12 2023

Michael Lind's Attack on Libertarians

Labor Market May 10 2023

Ted Gayer on Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

Energy, Environment, Resources May 9 2023

Approve But Don't Subsidize

Regulation and Subsidies May 7 2023

Hamilton's Haircuts

Economic History May 6 2023

Dan Klein on Hume on War

Government Growth May 5 2023

Assume a Tesla

Regulation May 4 2023

American Economics Association Reaches a New Low

Economic Methods May 3 2023

Fresh Air

Business Economics May 2 2023

How Many of Marx's Interim Goals Have We "Accomplished?"

Economic and Political Philosophy May 1 2023

When Is Income Not Income?

Moral Reasoning Apr 29 2023

Hayek on Benefits of Competition and the Optimal Size of Firms

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 28 2023

John Raisian, RIP

Obituaries Apr 27 2023

Friedrich Hayek on Industrial Organization, Competition, and Monopoly

Competition Apr 26 2023

Taxing Higher Earners and Subsidizing Lower Earners Would Reduce Inequality

Economics of Health Care Apr 25 2023

We're Number Two; We're Number Two

Economic Education Apr 24 2023

ESG is Bad for a Company’s Share Value

Finance: stocks, options, etc. Apr 24 2023

Let Teenagers Work

Labor Market Apr 22 2023

Heart-breaking Yet Inspiring Story on Chinese Asylum Seekers

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Apr 21 2023

Hayek on "You Didn't Build That"

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 20 2023

Wisdom from Hayek

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Apr 17 2023

The Connection Between "Air" and ESG

Business Economics Apr 14 2023

Call the Midwife Confronts Intrusive Government

Central Planning Apr 12 2023

The COVID Emergency Powers Are Over

Politics and Economics Apr 10 2023

COVID and Tradeoffs

Economics of Health Care Apr 10 2023

Progress on the Southern Border; Yes, Really

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Apr 8 2023

Why We Should Reform Medicare and Social Security in the Next Few Years

Economics of Health Care Apr 7 2023

How I Savings Bonds Work

Finance Apr 6 2023

You Can't Say That; I Can

Moral Reasoning Apr 5 2023

Henderson Review of Deborah Birx's Silent Invasion

Public Health Apr 4 2023

I've Changed My Mind

Politics and Economics Apr 1 2023

Yellen: Sanctions Kill Iranians and Don't Work So Let's Impose More

International Trade Mar 29 2023

Newsom Pulls a Nixon

Price Controls Mar 28 2023

More Wisdom from Thomas Sowell

Incentives Mar 28 2023

The Worst of the Biden Tax Increases

Taxation Mar 27 2023

How Milton Friedman Responded to Some Hostile Audience Members

Mar 26 2023

The 1619 Project on Hulu Vindicates Capitalism

Labor Market Mar 24 2023

Wisdom from Thomas Sowell

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 23 2023

In Praise of Electricity

Economic Growth Mar 22 2023

Is Inflation High? Not According to the Producer Price Index

Money and Inflation Mar 21 2023

Further Thoughts on Silicon Valley Bank

Politics and Economics Mar 21 2023

Mont Pèlerin 1947 and Germany's Economy

Economic Growth Mar 20 2023

Electricity Hell, Part Deux

Regulation Mar 19 2023

Bailing Out SVB Was a Really Bad Idea

Monetary Policy Mar 17 2023

Get Your New Washing Machine Before Biden Makes Them Illegal

Central Planning Mar 15 2023

The Economics of Stock Buybacks

Business Economics Mar 12 2023

State Legislatures Have Reined in Public Health Bureaucracies

Central Planning Mar 10 2023

Canada's Budget Officer Admits the Truth About Global Warming's Impact

Economic Growth Mar 9 2023

The 1619 Project's Tooth Fairy Economics

Mar 7 2023

Biography of Mancur Olson is Now Online

Cross-country Comparisons Mar 6 2023

Jeff Sonnenfeld's Bombshell About the Russian Economy

Central Planning Mar 5 2023

Globalization and Its Discontents

International Trade Mar 3 2023

D. McCloskey's Passionate Defense of Reason

Labor Market Mar 2 2023

The Latest on Ivermectin

Public Choice Theory Mar 1 2023

Electricity Hell

Regulation Feb 28 2023

Did Deregulation Lead to More Railroad Accidents?

Regulation Feb 27 2023

My March 6 Speech in Austin

Upcoming Events Feb 26 2023

20 States Have Flat Income Tax Rates

Tax Reform Feb 25 2023

Is It Wrong to Make Money by Helping Others?

Entrepreneurship Feb 24 2023

The 1619 Project on Hulu Vindicates Capitalism

Economic History Feb 21 2023

Larry Summers's Insight and Misunderstanding

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Feb 20 2023

Hayek's Volunteers in Ukraine

Information Goods, Intellectual Property Feb 19 2023

How Much is U.S. Aid to Ukraine Costing You?

Foreign Policy Feb 18 2023

John Jasinski's Sunk Cost Fallacy

Economic Education Feb 17 2023

Some Occupational Licensing Progress at State Level

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Feb 17 2023

A Personal Reflection on a Half Century of Economic Progress

Economic Growth Feb 16 2023

Sasha Zbrozek's Brazen Plan

Property Rights Feb 14 2023

What the Peltzman Effect Is and Isn't

Behavioral Economics Feb 13 2023

Taxing Wealth Is Taxing Work

Taxation Feb 10 2023

Is Californian Housing Policy a Form of Central Planning?

Central Planning Feb 9 2023

Did Jobs Increase in January?

Labor Market Feb 7 2023

Olivier Blanchard's Response

Feb 6 2023

Sunk Costs and the Tuck Rule

Behavioral Economics Feb 5 2023

Would More Immigration of Workers Reduce Inflation?

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Feb 4 2023

Saying No (Again) to Wage and Price Controls

Politics and Economics Feb 3 2023

Immigrants Use Less Welfare Than Native-Born Americans

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Feb 2 2023

Was Schindler Unimportant?

Economics of Crime Jan 31 2023

Tradeoffs Are Omnipresent, Even With Covid

Business Economics Jan 30 2023

Higher California Gas Prices Due to Taxes and Regulation

Regulation Jan 29 2023

ChatGPT on High Marginal Tax Rates in the Style of the King James Bible

Technology Jan 27 2023

Well-written Constitutions Matter

Public Choice Theory Jan 26 2023

Good News on Federal Budget from Robert Kuttner

Government Growth Jan 24 2023

A Million Here, A Million There

Government Growth Jan 22 2023

Privatize the Skies

Business Economics Jan 20 2023

Sunk Costs and a Trip to CVS Pharmacy

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jan 19 2023

How Threatening are Communist Farmers?

Property Rights Jan 18 2023

Henderson on the John Batchelor Show

Business Economics Jan 17 2023

The Need for Heroes and Heroism

Economic and Political Philosophy Jan 15 2023

Does Higher Pay to Legislators Lead to Better Governance?

Public Choice Theory Jan 13 2023

A Sad, Sad Ehrlich Story

Economic Growth Jan 12 2023

The Everyday Miracle of the Market, #13,914

Competition Jan 11 2023

Is a Mandate Simply a Suggestion?

Jan 10 2023

Mark Perry's Heroic Lone-Wolf Fight for Civil Rights

Economic and Political Philosophy Jan 9 2023

Martin Shkreli's Observations on the Criminal Justice System

Economics of Crime Jan 7 2023

The Southwest Meltdown

Business Economics Jan 6 2023

Jeff Hummel on the Wealth of Slaves and Slave Owners

Income and Wealth distribution Jan 5 2023

Bryan Caplan's Defective Demarcation of Libertarians on COVID

Public Health Jan 4 2023

Jeff Hummel on the Postwar Southern Economy

Economic History Jan 3 2023

Ben McCallum RIP

Jan 2 2023

Lessons from Isaac's Storm

Central Planning Dec 31 2022

Good News from the Job Market

Labor Market Dec 29 2022

The Abject Failure of Central Planning During COVID

Central Planning Dec 28 2022

Stanford Fails to Master Clear Thinking

Economic Methods Dec 27 2022

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on Slavery

Economic History Dec 26 2022

John Bates Clark

History of Economic Thought Dec 24 2022

Evaluating Insurance

Behavioral Economics Dec 23 2022

I Want High-Income Earners to Stay

Tax Reform Dec 22 2022

The Drug Reduction Act

Economics of Health Care Dec 21 2022

ChatGPT on Rent Control

Economic Education Dec 20 2022

CBS Doesn't Tell the Whole Smothers Brothers Story

Regulation Dec 19 2022

Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending Soared While Health Care Spending Grew Slowly

Economics of Health Care Dec 18 2022

A Pro-Freedom Medical Oath

Economics of Health Care Dec 17 2022

Pitfalls with the Hippocratic Oath and the Woke Oath

Economics of Health Care Dec 16 2022

Setting the Record Straight on Ivermectin

Economics of Health Care Dec 15 2022

Good News on Inflation

Money and Inflation Dec 13 2022

Great Moments in Due Diligence

Finance Dec 10 2022

Hummel on Central Bank Bankruptcy

Monetary Policy Dec 8 2022

Is Sacrificing the Same as Being Sacrificed?

Economics of Health Care Dec 7 2022

Jeffrey Friedman RIP

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Dec 6 2022

Ben Rogge on East-West Trade

International Trade Dec 5 2022

I Think Like a Leftist

Public Choice Theory Dec 3 2022

Biden's Accomplishments on Immigration

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Dec 3 2022

A Tax Victory in Monterey County

Public Choice Theory Dec 2 2022

Tighten the Earned Income Tax Credit

Supply-side Economics Dec 1 2022

Building a Life

Moral Reasoning Nov 28 2022

We're Number 5; We're Number 5

Competition Nov 28 2022

How I-Bond Rates Reset

Finance Nov 25 2022

Economics is Humane

Economics of Crime Nov 23 2022

I Want My Society Back

Economics and Culture Nov 22 2022

David Friedman on the Social Cost of Carbon

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 21 2022

Vox Rights and German Shopping Carts

Labor Market Nov 19 2022

How Wealthy We Are

Growth: Consequences Nov 18 2022

Give Gig Workers a Real Break

Labor Market Nov 17 2022

The Bad News from Taxachusetts

Taxation Nov 16 2022

An Economics Nobel for and by Central Bankers

Monetary Policy Nov 14 2022

He Who Seeks Revenge Digs Two Graves

Economic and Political Philosophy Nov 11 2022

Inflation Has Fallen

Money and Inflation Nov 11 2022

Peter Thiel Misses the Small Picture

Economic Growth Nov 10 2022

Did Land Speculators Make the United States of America?

Economic History Nov 8 2022

Did the Boskin Commission Lie About Inflation?

Economic Growth Nov 7 2022

Why Republicans Are Now Getting Heavily into Election Integrity Issues

Public Choice Theory Nov 5 2022

Myths of Economic Inequality

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 4 2022

Lower-Income Americans are Taxed Much Less Heavily Than Lower-Income Europeans

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 3 2022

A Way for Biden to Help Black People

Regulation Nov 2 2022

Appropriate Penalties for Assaulting Politicians and Their Relatives

Economics of Crime Nov 1 2022

Shirley Svorny RIP

Economics of Health Care Oct 28 2022

California's Laffer Curve

Supply-side Economics Oct 27 2022

The Pennsylvania Debate on the Minimum Wage

Labor Market Oct 26 2022

Lowest-Skilled Migrant Workers are Not Displacing American Workers

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Oct 25 2022

David Friedman on Special Pleading

Business Economics Oct 24 2022

Drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Energy, Environment, Resources Oct 23 2022

Cooperation on Water Use without Higher Prices

Behavioral Economics Oct 21 2022

Good News on State Taxes

Oct 20 2022

Roberts and Zuegel on Argentine Inflation and Crypto

Cryptocurrency Oct 19 2022

Life Magazine on USSR in 1943

Central Planning Oct 18 2022

Expensive Prescription Drugs Are a Bargain

Oct 16 2022

Does the Texas Homicide Conviction Rate for Illegal Immigrants Exceed the Rate for Native-Born Americans in Texas?

Economics of Crime Oct 15 2022

Rearden Teaches Moral Reasoning to "Wet Nurse"

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 13 2022

Michael McConnell's Version of Federalism

Business Economics Oct 12 2022

An Economics Nobel for and by Central Bankers

Monetary Policy Oct 10 2022

Hank Rearden's Trial Scene

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 10 2022

Henderson on Gray's Arbitrary Lines

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 8 2022

Our Amazing Somewhat-free Economy

Economic Growth Oct 7 2022

Take That, Dr. Fauci!

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 4 2022

Krugman Talks Sense on Housing

Regulation Oct 2 2022

"Great" Moments in Aribitrage

Economics of Health Care Sep 28 2022

Ayn Rand on Unsolicited Advice

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 27 2022

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics in Iran

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 25 2022

Atlas Shrugged on Child Labor

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 24 2022

Axios Badly Misstates Malpass's View on Global Warming

Energy, Environment, Resources Sep 23 2022

Europe's Destructive Energy Policies

Energy, Environment, Resources Sep 23 2022

Wikipedia on Aaron Director

History of Economic Thought Sep 22 2022

Francisco d'Anconia's Speech on Money

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 20 2022

How Trustworthy is Wikipedia

Media Watch Sep 19 2022

Walter Block's Principle of Opposition

Moral Reasoning Sep 18 2022

Angus Deaton on Getting More People Into College

Economics of Education Sep 17 2022

A Tariff Is a Tax

International Trade Sep 16 2022

Phil Magness on Kevin Kruse, Nancy MacLean, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and Covid

Economic History Sep 15 2022

U.S. Demand Drives the Drug Market

Economics of Health Care Sep 14 2022

Internalizing a Trash Externality

Business Economics Sep 12 2022

Economic Freedom Falls Dramatically Worldwide

Liberty Sep 11 2022

The Aristocracy of Pull

Labor Market Sep 9 2022

Brad DeLong's Strange Concept of Market Failure

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Sep 8 2022

School Lockdowns Will Kill

Public Health Sep 7 2022

Make Work Pay Again

Income Distribution Sep 6 2022

You Didn't Build That

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 5 2022

Betsy Bailey RIP

Obituaries Sep 2 2022

High Quality Oranges and High Quality Hotels

Economic Education Sep 1 2022

Timothy Taylor on Medicare Advantage

Economics of Health Care Aug 30 2022

The Cost-Price Illusion

Business Economics Aug 30 2022

District Attorneys Allege ADA Shakedown

Regulation Aug 28 2022

Did Big Government Get Smaller in the 1980s and 1990s?

Regulation Aug 26 2022

Your New Student Debt

Economic and Political Philosophy Aug 25 2022

Without Government, Who Would Destroy Poor People's Homes?

Property Rights Aug 24 2022

A Libertarian Dilemma

Liberty Aug 23 2022

Bob Barro and David Ricardo

History of Economic Thought Aug 20 2022

The IRS Shows Its Guns

Liberty Aug 20 2022

The Relationship Between Budget Deficits and Interest Rates--and a Fun Story

Fiscal Policy Aug 19 2022

Why We Can't Trust the Covid Death Statistics

Incentives Aug 17 2022

Think Locally, Act Globally

Energy, Environment, Resources Aug 15 2022

The "Shrink the Economy" Act

Economic Growth Aug 13 2022

The Rich and the Politically Powerful

Public Choice Theory Aug 12 2022

Monthly versus Annual Inflation Data

Macroeconomics Aug 10 2022

Kevin Corcoran on Government Capacities versus Government Priorities

Government Growth Aug 10 2022

Senate Democrats Understand Covid Tradeoffs

Cost-benefit Analysis Aug 8 2022

Does the Market Fail to Respond to Localized Demands?

International Trade Aug 7 2022

The Case Against Compulsory Universal Standards

Business Economics Aug 6 2022

ESG Feeds Inflation, Hurts Economic Growth

Business Economics Aug 5 2022

Inflation Reduction Act Will Increase Taxes for Most People

Taxation Aug 4 2022

Definitions of Recession

Macroeconomics Aug 3 2022

Incentives Work Even for Bureaucracies

Incentives Aug 2 2022

Corcoran on Methodology and the Minimum Wage

Austrian Economics Jul 30 2022

Hoover's Video on Price Controls

Price Controls Jul 29 2022

The Roots of Black Economic Progress

Economic Growth Jul 28 2022

The Myth of the Marshall Plan

Economic Growth Jul 27 2022

Biden Is Practically Engineering a Recession

Business Cycles Jul 26 2022

Canada's Gas Prices are Less Than California's

Regulation Jul 24 2022

Corcoran on Industrial Policy and Central Planning

Business Economics Jul 21 2022

Great Moments in Industrial Policy

Central Planning Jul 19 2022

The Wonder of Economic Growth Yet Again

Jul 18 2022

Highlights of The Mayor of Castro Street

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 14 2022

The TOGETHER Trial of Ivermectin Isn't All That Together

Economics of Health Care Jul 13 2022

Asymmetric Loss Function in Buying Food for My Cottage Stay

Cost-benefit Analysis Jul 12 2022

Kevin Corcoran on Economics in Fiction

Economic Education Jul 11 2022

Should the AEA Have Conferences in Canada?

Economics of Health Care Jul 9 2022

The Positive Externalities of the American Revolution

Public Choice Theory Jul 4 2022

We're the Only Country . . .

Economic and Political Philosophy Jul 2 2022

What Caused Gas Prices to Jump?

Energy, Environment, Resources Jul 1 2022

Kevin Corcoran on the Subjectivity of Advantage and Privilege

Behavioral Economics Jun 30 2022

My Review of Steven Koonin's Unsettled

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 30 2022

The Unjoined Debate

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Jun 28 2022

Where Has Michael Drake Been for the Last 50 Years

Economics of Health Care Jun 25 2022

End the Tax on Phantom Gains

Tax Reform Jun 25 2022

The Supply-Side Headwinds that Could Cause a Recession

Regulation and Subsidies Jun 24 2022

Killing a 5th, and Big, Bird

Price Controls Jun 23 2022

Competition as a Process

Austrian Economics Jun 22 2022

This Will Likely End Badly

Regulation and Subsidies Jun 21 2022

Wonderful Consequences of Economic Growth

Economic Growth Jun 17 2022

Do General Subsidies Substantially Increase Demand for Energy?

Energy, Environment, Resources Jun 16 2022

Is the Fed Likely to Go Bankrupt?

Finance Jun 13 2022

Hooper on Chudov on Vaccines Against Variants

Economics of Health Care Jun 12 2022

Economists' Views on Price Controls: The Good News and the Bad

Price Controls Jun 10 2022

Johnny Carson Interviews Ayn Rand

Media Watch Jun 9 2022

Find the Date of OSHA

Labor Market Jun 8 2022

What the FICA?

Social Security Jun 7 2022

Don't Help Others Because You Might Benefit Too

Jun 6 2022

A Day in the Life of Coastal California

Central Planning Jun 6 2022

Was Milton Friedman a Nobody?

Macroeconomics Jun 5 2022

The Wonders of Economic Growth

Economic Growth Jun 3 2022

Limiting Short Term Health Insurance Prevents People from Getting Health Insurance

Economics of Health Care Jun 2 2022

Kirk's Insights on Climate Risk

Economic Growth Jun 1 2022

The DeAngelo, Kalt, Henderson, and Topel Appreciation of Demsetz

Incentives May 31 2022

The Wonder of Economic Growth, Part Deux

Economics and Culture May 30 2022

Fond Memories of Southwest Airlines

Regulation May 29 2022

Paul Joskow on Harold Demsetz

Political Economy May 28 2022

Horrible FDA Regulation of Infant Formula

International Trade May 24 2022

The Wonder of Economic Growth, Part One

Economic Growth May 24 2022

Hayek on Privilege

Economic and Political Philosophy May 22 2022

The Role of Privilege

Economic and Political Philosophy May 20 2022

Index State Tax Brackets Now

Money and Inflation May 19 2022

Should President Biden Cancel Student Debt?

Economics of Education May 17 2022

AMA Proudly Beats Back Competition

Economics of Health Care May 16 2022

George H. Smith, RIP

Austrian Economics May 15 2022

The CMS is Right and the WSJ is Wrong

Economics of Health Care May 14 2022

Inflation Falls

Money and Inflation May 11 2022

Wipe Out the Benjamins?

International Trade May 10 2022

Child Subsidies versus More Immigration

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing May 9 2022

Reminiscences of Hayek

Austrian Economics May 8 2022

Young Man: the Janitors!

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 8 2022

Don't Just Stand There: Undo Something

International Trade May 7 2022

The FDA's Extreme Innumeracy

Economics of Health Care May 6 2022

Central Planning of Water Levels

Central Planning May 5 2022

The Importance of Being Ethical

Economic and Political Philosophy May 4 2022

Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part III

Central Planning May 3 2022

Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part II

Labor Market May 2 2022

Cecilia Rouse on Biden Economic Policy, Part I

Economic Growth May 1 2022

Stocks for the Long Run

Finance: stocks, options, etc. Apr 29 2022

Who's Responsible for Student Loans?

Economics of Education Apr 28 2022

The Intricate Economic Effects of Apartheid

Competition Apr 27 2022

The CEA’s Baby Steps on Occupational Licensing

Liberty Apr 27 2022

Understating Progress: Economic Report of the President on Falling Poverty

Labor Market Apr 25 2022

Dave Mayers RIP

Obituaries Apr 24 2022

Don't Destroy What's Good

Property Rights Apr 22 2022

Primitive Communism or Primitive Property Rights?

Property Rights Apr 21 2022

10 Minutes of Freedom on an Airline

Liberty Apr 20 2022

Henderson's Criticisms and Appreciations of John Kenneth Galbraith

History of Economic Thought Apr 19 2022

Good News on Employment

Labor Market Apr 18 2022

A Tax-Based Attack on Capital and Labor

Taxation Apr 15 2022

Badly Misleading Inflation Headlines

Macroeconomics Apr 14 2022

Corcoran on Collective Punishment

Incentives Apr 13 2022

Why Sanctions Rarely Work

International Trade Apr 12 2022

Carl Menger versus Adam Smith

Austrian Economics Apr 11 2022

Making Good Economic Decisions Doesn't Always Mean Being Cheap

Cost-benefit Analysis Apr 10 2022

I Should Have Known I Would Be an Economist

Economic Education Apr 8 2022

Rhoads on Unemployed Men

Labor Market Apr 7 2022

Hidden Price Increases

Price Controls Apr 6 2022

Menger on Price Formation

History of Economic Thought Apr 5 2022

Hostility and Coercion are Not the Same Thing

Liberty Apr 4 2022

Mick Jagger's Favorite Economist

Austrian Economics Apr 3 2022

The Fed Is a Failed Central Planner

Central Planning Apr 2 2022

Carl Menger on Value

Austrian Economics Mar 30 2022

What Should be the Law on Sharing and Viewing Child Pornography?

Economics of Crime Mar 28 2022

Henderson Review of Steven Rhoads

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 26 2022

Henderson Review of Scott Atlas Book

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Mar 25 2022

Ivermectin and Statistical Significance

Public Health Mar 24 2022

In a Fast-Moving Pandemic, Use What We Have

Public Health Mar 23 2022

The Wonder of Economic Growth

Economic Growth Mar 21 2022

The Kids Are Not Alright

Public Health Mar 21 2022

The Division of Labor is Limited by Government

Adam Smith Mar 20 2022

One Good Biden Move on Oil and Two More Suggestions

Energy, Environment, Resources Mar 18 2022

Alex Tabarrok on Covid Failures and Successes, Part II

Political Economy Mar 17 2022

Alex Tabarrok on Covid Failures and Successes, Part I

Cost-benefit Analysis Mar 16 2022

Constraints on the Feds

Economic and Political Philosophy Mar 14 2022

That Awful Russian Oligarch

Central Planning Mar 12 2022

The Promise of Bitcoin

Cryptocurrency Mar 11 2022

The U-Curve Decline Was Less Than Many Economists Think

Income Distribution Mar 11 2022

Did the 2017 Tax Cut Leave the Majority of Americans Behind?

Productivity Mar 9 2022

Is Nikole Hannah-Jones Right?

Foreign Policy Mar 8 2022

Joel Kotkin's Criticism of Libertarians and the Cato Institute

Central Planning Mar 7 2022

A Populist Attack on Big Tech

Business Economics Mar 4 2022

The First Casualty in War

Law and Economics Mar 3 2022

Cost/Benefit Analysis of Bitcoin

Cost-benefit Analysis Mar 1 2022

Not So SWIFT

Foreign Policy Feb 28 2022

A Tribute to Bryan Caplan

Economic Education Feb 27 2022

Do These Politicians Hear Themselves?

Public Choice Theory Feb 24 2022

Yes I Can

Behavioral Economics Feb 22 2022

Kevin Corcoran on the Importance of Framing

Behavioral Economics Feb 21 2022

An Everyday Mask Tragedy

Economics and Culture Feb 20 2022

Let Freedom Rein in Big Tech

Liberty Feb 19 2022

Janet Bufton on the Canadian Truckers' Protest

Liberty Feb 18 2022

Are Your Views Canadian-Government Approved?

Liberty Feb 17 2022

Ryan Bourne's Ironic Mention of Tyler Cowen

Public Health Feb 16 2022

P.J. O'Rourke, RIP

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Feb 15 2022

A Game of Margins

Business Economics Feb 14 2022

Comparing Two Predictions of Inflation

Money and Inflation Feb 13 2022

The Consensus on Price Controls

Price Controls Feb 11 2022

The Canadian Truckers' Attack on Freedom of Movement

International Trade Feb 10 2022

Politician Stands Up for Economic Freedom

Labor Market Feb 10 2022

Preach What You Practice

Economic and Political Philosophy Feb 8 2022

Competition Cures a Lot of Ills

Competition Feb 7 2022

The Work of the One Percent

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Feb 6 2022

Wake Up and Smell the CAFE

Energy, Environment, Resources Feb 4 2022

Caplan at Chicago

Economics of Education Feb 3 2022

Stossel Interviews Henderson on Inflation

Monetary Policy Feb 1 2022

Ben Zycher on Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

Energy, Environment, Resources Feb 1 2022

Henderson and Hooper on Choice versus Coercion

Liberty Jan 29 2022

Affecting People's Decisions

Cost-benefit Analysis Jan 27 2022

The Acton-Creighton Correspondence

Liberty Jan 25 2022

Matthews Interviews Henderson on Price Controls

Price Controls Jan 24 2022

Should Companies Be Deeply Obsessed with Helping Customers?

Energy, Environment, Resources Jan 23 2022

The Case Against Price Controls

Price Controls Jan 22 2022

Will California's Government Raise Taxes Even More?

Taxation Jan 20 2022

Jonathan Chait's Mistaken Analogy

Public Health Jan 19 2022

I Lose a Bet with Bryan Caplan

Competition Jan 19 2022

Israel's UnFauci

Public Health Jan 18 2022

Relative Price Changes and Inflation Propagation

Money and Inflation Jan 17 2022

U.S. Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jan 16 2022

The Land Down Under Goes Even Lower

Liberty Jan 16 2022

Government Humanitarianism

Regulation Jan 14 2022

De Toqueville's America, Palo Alto Edition

Liberty Jan 13 2022

Inflation: Rates, Levels, and Time Periods

Money and Inflation Jan 12 2022

William J. Haga, An Appreciation

Obituaries Jan 11 2022

Reining in Emergency Powers

Liberty Jan 10 2022

John Madden, Joseph Schumpeter, and Competition

Competition Jan 8 2022

The Threats to Democracy, Part I

Politics and Economics Jan 7 2022

Great Stories and Weak Economics

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jan 6 2022

Willingness to Kill

Law and Economics Jan 5 2022

Using the Market to Fight Racial Discrimination, Jackie Robinson edition

Free Markets Jan 4 2022

Jeff Hummel on the Fed’s Treatment of Vault Cash

Monetary Policy Jan 3 2022

Choice, Coercion, and Bastiat

Liberty Jan 2 2022

Gotcha Questions for Martin Feldstein's Confirmation Hearing

Labor Market Dec 30 2021

John Madden on How Competition Among Small Numbers is Still Very Competitive

Competition Dec 29 2021

The Crucial Distinction Between Choice and Coercion

Liberty Dec 27 2021

I Bonds

Finance Dec 26 2021

An Insurance Story

Business Economics Dec 25 2021

ADA Hurt Disabled Workers

Labor Market Dec 24 2021

John Tamny's Quizzical Statement

Monetary Policy Dec 23 2021

Better Late than Never for Eric Topol

Incentives Dec 23 2021

The Attack on Walter Block

Labor Market Dec 22 2021

Response to Scott Sumner on Covid Caution

Public Health Dec 21 2021

Wisdom on Cities from Edward Glaeser

Regulation and Subsidies Dec 20 2021

The Power of the Ten Pillars

Economic Education Dec 20 2021

Berkeley's Swartzberg Implicitly Endorses Great Barrington Declaration

Public Health Dec 19 2021

Lower Concentration for Consumers

Competition Dec 17 2021

Inflation: What Next?

Monetary Policy Dec 16 2021

Canada's Decline in Press Freedom, Part 2

Incentives Dec 14 2021

Henderson on Inflation on KCBS

Central Planning Dec 13 2021

Colorado Governor Says Sensible Things about COVID

Liberty Dec 12 2021

The FDA Will Soon Allow Adults to Act as Adults

Economics of Health Care Dec 11 2021

Elephant Ear Sandwiches and Amazon

Competition Dec 10 2021

My Oversight on Scott Atlas

Moral Reasoning Dec 9 2021

Traffic is Congested? Then Make it More Congested

Regulation and Subsidies Dec 8 2021

Should FIRE Be Pushing for Tenure?

Labor Market Dec 7 2021

A Memory of Bob Dole

Public Choice Theory Dec 6 2021

More Populist Deregulation

Liberty Dec 5 2021

Great Moment in Shetland

Public Health Dec 3 2021

What Are You Afraid Of?

Behavioral Economics Dec 2 2021

Bad and Good Olympic Boycotts

Foreign Policy Nov 30 2021

Richard L. Stroup RIP

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 29 2021

Was Kyle Rittenhouse Foolish?

Moral Reasoning Nov 27 2021

Economics in One Lesson

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 24 2021

No Single Incident of Anticompetitive Actions

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 24 2021

Surviving the Zam Zam

Foreign Policy Nov 22 2021

Railroad Regulation's Poor Track Record

Regulation Nov 21 2021

A Bad Argument for Paid Family Leave

Labor Market Nov 20 2021

Must These Values Conflict?

Labor Market Nov 19 2021

Who Was Henry Hazlitt?

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Nov 18 2021

David Rubenstein's Weak Case for Fearing China

Cross-country Comparisons Nov 17 2021

Reading Hayek in Graduate School

Austrian Economics Nov 14 2021

Students Open to Evidence on Taxes

Economic Education Nov 12 2021

Response to Scott Sumner on the Carbon Tax

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 10 2021

Wagner and Weitzman's Asymmetric Treatment of Non-Carbon Energies

Energy, Environment, Resources Nov 9 2021

Hayek on Responsibility for One's Fate

Economic and Political Philosophy Nov 8 2021

Victims of Communism Day

Economic History Nov 7 2021

Schools Should Teach Distinctions

Economic History Nov 5 2021

Trade Follies

Adam Smith Nov 5 2021

Danish Resistance to Nazi Government

Foreign Policy Nov 3 2021

Enright on Caplan on Immigration, Part Trois

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Nov 2 2021

Moving Toward Normal

Economics and Culture Nov 1 2021

The Curse of a Government Job

Public Choice Theory Oct 31 2021

Heather Cox Richardson's False History

Economic History Oct 30 2021

Sam Enright Responds

Economic Growth Oct 29 2021

Using the Geneva Conventions

Liberty Oct 28 2021

Sowell on Academic Standards

Economic Education Oct 27 2021

A Reminiscence about George Akerlof

Economic History Oct 27 2021

Enright on Caplan on Immigration

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Oct 26 2021

Legally Black: Jason Riley on Carter on Affirmative Action

Economics and Culture Oct 25 2021

Fred Hiatt's Soft Pitch

Regulation Oct 25 2021

Jay Bhattacharya on Uncommon Knowledge

Public Health Oct 24 2021

The Biden Full Court Press Against Economic Freedom

Liberty Oct 22 2021

Chris Jehn on Colin Powell on AVF versus Draft

Labor Market Oct 21 2021

The FDA's War Against the Truth on Ivermectin

Economics of Health Care Oct 19 2021

Angrist's Critique of Card and Krueger

Economic Methods Oct 17 2021

The Power of Compounding

Economic Education Oct 16 2021

The Pros and Cons of Irish Democracy

Law and Economics Oct 15 2021

Good News on Oil Spills

Energy, Environment, Resources Oct 14 2021

Highlights from the Nobel Committee Report

Labor Market Oct 13 2021

Outtakes from my Nobel Article

Labor Market Oct 12 2021

A Nobel for Natural Experimenters

Economic Methods Oct 11 2021

A Modest Proposal on Beef

Regulation Oct 9 2021

Great Moments in Central Planning

Central Planning Oct 8 2021

Fond Memories of Alchian and Tullock

Economic Education Oct 6 2021

The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin

Economic and Political Philosophy Oct 6 2021

Casey Mulligan Reads the Bill

Incentives Oct 5 2021

Haitian Assimilation

Labor Market Oct 4 2021

Where's the Beef?

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Oct 3 2021

Eric Posner on Monopsony

Labor Market Sep 30 2021

Paul Samyn's Failure to Distinguish

Economic Methods Sep 29 2021

Boudreaux on Monopsony

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 28 2021

Man on a Tightrope

Central Planning Sep 27 2021

Reply to Bob Murphy's Query

Liberty Sep 26 2021

How to Make Housing More Affordable

Price Controls Sep 24 2021

Breaking News: Unrealized Capital Gains are Not Taxed

Taxation Sep 23 2021

Angry Bears

Behavioral Economics Sep 23 2021

Henderson on UCLA on EconTalk

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 22 2021

Thoughts on Canada's Election

Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Sep 21 2021

Preach What You Practice

Liberty Sep 20 2021

Boudreaux on Government's Nature

Public Choice Theory Sep 19 2021

Wagner's and Weitzman's Bathtub Analogy

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Sep 17 2021

My 12th-Grade Odyssey

Economics of Education Sep 16 2021

Elder's Error?

Incentives Sep 14 2021

How One Short Story Changed Someone from Left to Libertarian

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 12 2021

Dr. Moreno Comes Through

Liberty Sep 10 2021

Milton Friedman's Long-Run Impact

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 9 2021

MRI Pricing

Economics of Health Care Sep 8 2021

CBO Estimates Huge Deadweight Loss from Increased IRS Budget

Supply-side Economics Sep 6 2021

David Autor's Mix of Insight, Error, and Confusion

Labor Market Sep 5 2021

Sunk Costs and Base Running

Sports Economics Sep 4 2021

Henderson and Hooper on Ivermectin

Economics of Health Care Sep 3 2021

The Friedmans on Equality of Outcome

Economic and Political Philosophy Sep 1 2021

Two Great Passages from Free to Choose

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 31 2021

Jack of All Trades

Economic and Political Philosophy Aug 29 2021

The Problem With Nordhaus

Energy, Environment, Resources Aug 28 2021

Orwell and Ehrenburg on Hope

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 27 2021

The Truman Fabrication

Economic History Aug 26 2021

Sensible Medical Pricing? Maybe

Business Economics Aug 25 2021

Canada's Decline in Press Freedom

Liberty Aug 24 2021

Voluntary Peaceful Activity is So Often Better than Government

Information Goods, Intellectual Property Aug 23 2021

Does Studying Economics Make You More Hostile to Immigration?

Economic Education Aug 20 2021

How China Is Grabbing "Our" Electric Market

International Trade Aug 18 2021

NIH Head's Shocking Innumeracy

Economics of Health Care Aug 17 2021

Harold Demsetz on Why and When Property Rights Develop

Property Rights Aug 16 2021

What Does This Employer Discrimination Mean?

Labor Market Aug 15 2021

The Economic and Moral Case Against Eviction Moratoria

Economic and Political Philosophy Aug 13 2021

Recent Study of Ivermectin Finds No Effect on Covid

Economics of Health Care Aug 12 2021

Should the Unvaccinated Be Required to Pay for Hospital Bills?

Economics of Health Care Aug 11 2021

North Dakota's Health Care Safety Valve for Manitobans

Competition Aug 10 2021

Peaceful Easy Feeling After Crossing the Border

International Trade Aug 9 2021

Aaron Burr's Explanation of 1830s Political Parties

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Aug 4 2021

Travel from Canada to the United States

International Trade Aug 3 2021

Canada’s Border Policy Doesn’t Scale

International Trade Aug 1 2021

How Scientific is the FDA?

Economics of Health Care Jul 29 2021

Essential UCLA School is Now Out

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 24 2021

EconVersation with Dan Sutter of Troy University

Central Planning Jul 23 2021

What's Wrong with Registering Women for the Draft?

Labor Market Jul 22 2021

Market Values ARE Human Values

Economic and Political Philosophy Jul 21 2021

Where Behavioral Economics Solves a Problem that Doesn't Exist

Behavioral Economics Jul 20 2021

When Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates? A Rejoinder to Bryan Caplan

Economic and Political Philosophy Jul 19 2021

Freedom is Regulation, Florida Edition

Business Economics Jul 17 2021

Biden's Executive Order on Competition

Business Economics Jul 16 2021

Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall

Economic History Jul 14 2021

Two Facts about Mass Transit and Cars

Business Economics Jul 13 2021

The New World of Radio

Business Economics Jul 12 2021

Trillions of Dollars of Retirement Wealth Have Been Mislaid

Income and Wealth distribution Jul 11 2021

Larry White on Brainerd on Stablecoins

Monetary Policy Jul 9 2021

Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates?

Economic and Political Philosophy Jul 8 2021

Campusland Delivers

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jul 8 2021

Are Externalities Enough?

Public Health Jul 7 2021

Congressman Rumsfeld on the Draft

Foreign Policy Jul 5 2021

Benefits of the American Revolution: An Exploration of Positive Externalities

Cost-benefit Analysis Jul 4 2021

Two Objections to Free Trade

International Trade Jul 4 2021

Mike Gravel on Sunk Costs in War

Labor Market Jul 2 2021

Royal Caribbean's Response to DeSantis's Restrictions on Freedom of Association

Regulation Jul 1 2021

The Wall Street Journal's Defense of Aduhelm Deserves 1.5 Cheers

Economics of Health Care Jun 30 2021

Campusland

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Jun 28 2021

John Tamny's Hayekian Take on Covid Policies

Liberty Jun 26 2021

The Case for Boarding Houses

Regulation Jun 25 2021

How Government and Politics Work

Media Watch Jun 24 2021

You're Not Advocating Anything Different from what you Previously Advocated

Economic Methods Jun 23 2021

Whalen and Henderson on the Assault on Wealth

Economic Growth Jun 22 2021

Zachary D. Carter's Hatchet Job on Milton Friedman

Macroeconomics Jun 21 2021

Marginal Costs Should Include All Relevant Margins

Business Economics Jun 21 2021

Two Hopeful Signs

Economics of Health Care Jun 20 2021

The Origin of SARS-Cov-2

Politics and Economics Jun 19 2021

How Dikembe Mutombo's Career Illustrates the Case for Free Trade

Free Markets Jun 18 2021

Sunk Cost and Marginal Cost: Our Microwave

Cost-benefit Analysis Jun 17 2021

The Everyday Miracles on the Web

Economic Growth Jun 15 2021

Notes on Taking Hummel's Monetary Theory and Policy Course

Monetary Policy Jun 13 2021

A Warm Memory about State Farm's Good Will

Business Economics Jun 8 2021

Strawmen, Steelmen, and Bad Faith

Economic and Political Philosophy Jun 7 2021

How Reliable is Government Information?

Central Planning Jun 6 2021

Models versus Data

Energy, Environment, Resources Jun 5 2021

Peterson Interviews Henderson on the Lockdown Loss to Youth

Economics of Education Jun 4 2021

Texas Government Assaults Economic Freedom

Liberty Jun 3 2021

Youth Pay a High Price for Covid Protection

Public Health Jun 3 2021

The Enemy Below

Foreign Policy Jun 2 2021

How the Profit Motive Makes Discrimination Less than Otherwise

Competition Jun 1 2021

How Many Pinocchios Should Glenn Kessler Get?

Economic Education May 30 2021

Failure to Launch and UBI

Behavioral Economics May 28 2021

Henderson versus Manning on the $15 Minimum Wage

Labor Market May 27 2021

Jerry Nadler's Radical Tax Reform

Economic and Political Philosophy May 26 2021

George Blake's Shocking Absence of Due Diligence

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 24 2021

Thinking on the Margin in the NBA

Economic Education May 23 2021

Ask What Changed: An Error in Cowen/Tabarrok Textbook

Economic Methods May 21 2021

Inflation: True and False

Economic Growth May 21 2021

Rosen versus Henderson on Child Tax Credits

Income Distribution May 20 2021

What is Ontario Trying to Tell Us?

Energy, Environment, Resources May 19 2021

Panetta, Quayle, and Clinton

Fiscal Policy May 18 2021

Ridicule or Reach Out?

Media Watch May 17 2021

The Miserable Americans

Economics of Crime May 16 2021

Tim Kane's Immigrant Interview of Henderson

Economic and Political Philosophy May 15 2021

Batchelor Interviews Henderson on Capital Gains Tax Increase

Economic Growth May 14 2021

Jason Furman on High UI

Incentives May 14 2021

Ryan Streeter's Grounds for Optimism

Economic Growth May 13 2021

Do Profit Maximizers Leave $4,000 on the Table?

Labor Market May 12 2021

Bob Chitester RIP

Obituaries May 10 2021

Two Questions on Sunkara's Book

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings May 9 2021

California State Government Will Lose Big from Capital Gains Tax Increase

Incentives May 8 2021

Despite or Because of?

Incentives May 7 2021

Camping Cohen's Commitment

Liberty May 6 2021

Henderson on John Batchelor Show on Family Allowance

Regulation and Subsidies May 6 2021

Richard Nixon and the Draft

Labor Market May 5 2021