The Curious Engineer

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2007–2008

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December 2008

  1. Mencken’s Clear Vision
  2. Tullockian Wisdom
  3. To the Letter!
  4. Building schools in Uganda
  5. Alice in Washington
  6. Political Theater
  7. Keynesianism?
  8. Good tax policy
  9. Finally, someone noticed
  10. The Nation Is Not a House
  11. A New Monetary Theory
  12. Kindle Problem?
  13. "I, Pencil" Turns 50
  14. Tamny on The Price of Everything
  15. Quick reviews
  16. Video challenge
  17. Rocky's License
  18. The Price of Everything on the Kindle
  19. Bankrupt Assertion
  20. Higgs on the Great Depression
  21. A Haven of Sanity
  22. New Deal video
  23. The Human Chessboard
  24. Lipstein on hospitals
  25. Too Big to Fail?
  26. Invisible Hook
  27. Frankly Ironic
  28. Harsanyi on the Czar
  29. Comment problems
  30. Making the Invisible Hand Visible
  31. Another charming excerpt
  32. Bedtime reading
  33. The era of free markets
  34. Lord Acton was onto something
  35. Too Much Deregulation?
  36. On Layoffs
  37. Who You Gonna Call?
  38. I'll Drink to That!
  39. But how would they work the pedals in those big shoes?
  40. Some of my favorite movies
  41. Answers and questions
  42. The Stakes
  43. Do the car companies have a good plan?
  44. Reason and hubris
  45. Fear Competition?
  46. Beware Reliance
  47. Slumdog Millionaire
  48. Does Bernanke realize what he's doing?
  49. Book Forum at Cato
  50. Cato daily podcast
  51. Humility
  52. Where did the money go?
  53. Interview on The Price of Everything
  54. FDR and FDIC
  55. Rauchway on the Great Depression and the New Deal
  56. Outliers
  57. A blast from the past
  58. Pat Buchanan and failure
  59. Cato reminder

November 2008

  1. No New New Deal
  2. Relative Price Adjustments and Aggregate Demand
  3. Markets to Americans Are Like Water to a Fish
  4. No Sparrows
  5. We are the web
  6. Cowen on the Great Depression and New Deal
  7. Speaking at Cato on The Price of Everything
  8. Housing and the business cycle
  9. Cassidy on the meltdown
  10. Hazlett on telecom
  11. Keynesian Stimulus, the 1930s, and WWII
  12. Parliament of Ho, Ho, Hoes!
  13. Location and myopia
  14. A novel idea
  15. Misunderstanding Understanding
  16. The meaning of "quickly"
  17. Parenting and economic policy
  18. The Bailout Will be Televised
  19. More Tibor Machan
  20. Will vs. Krugman (and DeLong and Econospeak)
  21. Dear Prudence
  22. Talk and book signing
  23. My Kingdom for a Troubled Asset!
  24. How thoughtful
  25. Fixing the country
  26. Where was I in 2005?
  27. Too Big to Fail?
  28. Libido for Power
  29. Financial Meltdown
  30. Truer Words Were Never Spoken
  31. Paulson's failure
  32. Taxes Haven't Been Cut Enough
  33. The credit crunch
  34. Oh, please
  35. On Peter Morici On the Trade Deficit
  36. Wisdom from Megan
  37. Muirgeo
  38. No Saviors
  39. Fannie and Freddie Haiku
  40. Wintertime Temperatures Cold at the North Pole
  41. Location, Location, Location
  42. A T-Shirt or something, please
  43. Bryan and Herbert
  44. Everyday Global Cooperation
  45. Cowen on the End of the Great Depression
  46. No More Bailouts
  47. Henry Morgenthau on the Success of the New Deal
  48. Obama and F.D.R.
  49. Shameless Bragging and Self-Promotion
  50. Comments are open
  51. The auto industry
  52. Covering Their Arses
  53. Kling on the mess
  54. Gay Marriage
  55. Horwitz's Open Letter
  56. Theater of the Absurd
  57. More on comments
  58. Greenspan Is Guilty As Charged
  59. Deserving & Denied?
  60. Appropriate Respect
  61. Epstein on Happiness
  62. Marshall Fritz, 1943-2008
  63. Further Insights from Pietro Poggi-Corradini
  64. Pondering the Electoral College
  65. Five Dollar Book Club Update
  66. Comments at the Cafe
  67. Tullock on Voting
  68. Mencken on Presidential Elections
  69. Big and Strong?
  70. Pietro Poggi-Corradini on Inequality
  71. Political Wisdom from The Bard

October 2008

  1. Video Interview on The Price of Everything
  2. Franklin Delano Bush
  3. The Rules of the Game
  4. Is Barack Obama a Socialist?
  5. Thinking Clearly
  6. Liberal With the Facts
  7. Two Can Play This Game
  8. O'Driscoll on Central Banking
  9. EconTalk in the classroom
  10. Munger on Middlemen
  11. Garrison on Greenspan
  12. Ordinary Americans Growing Wealthier Over the Long-Run
  13. White on the Crisis
  14. Neither the Collective Nor the State is God-like
  15. The line forms
  16. The Great Escape
  17. Yet Another Reason I Dislike Politicians
  18. It Is Not From the Benevolence of …
  19. Milton Friedman admits entire life was a lie
  20. Alan the Penitent
  21. My debate with Bill McKibben
  22. Arnold the Wise
  23. Changing Times
  24. World War II Cured the Great Depression? Unlikely
  25. Bush, McCain, Obama, Volcker, Ears, and Surprises
  26. Reality-Based?
  27. Contributing to Regime Uncertainty
  28. Excellent Arrggguments
  29. Clay Shirky on Here Comes Everybody
  30. David Henderson on Today's Economy
  31. Spontaneous Order Promotes John Stossel's Promotion of Spontaneous Order
  32. Austrian Capital Theory in Action
  33. It's a Difficult Job Saving Society
  34. Deficit Hawk(ins)
  35. Interview with Russ Roberts
  36. Banking on Selgin
  37. Capitalism Is Moral; Communism Is Not. Period.
  38. Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics
  39. Destruction Is Creation?
  40. Hayek's Revenge
  41. Milton Friedman on Fetters
  42. Morriss on Brown
  43. Covering All Possibilities, From A to B
  44. A Commenting Suggestion
  45. Mencken on McCain (Sort of)
  46. Denationalizing the Drug-Approval Process
  47. More Unhealthy Economics
  48. Seasteading
  49. Krugman's prize
  50. Rewriting history
  51. Chummy In Washington
  52. What Is Seen…..
  53. The "Mysterious" Great Depression?
  54. Best Line That I've Heard in a While
  55. On Term Limits
  56. Jon Macey on Uncle Sam's Interventions
  57. Bryan Sees Clearly
  58. Who Cares?
  59. Dubner on The Price of Everything
  60. I’d Rather Listen to Insects Buzz
  61. My Argument for Redistribution
  62. On African Agriculture
  63. A bad sign
  64. Walter Williams's Lessons From the Bailout
  65. The $5 book club
  66. I talk about the mess and the bailout on Reason.tv
  67. $700 Billion Bad Bet
  68. And Even More on the Bailout
  69. Too bad Hayek isn't running
  70. Vote Don't Vote
  71. Congratulations to the Volt!
  72. State-level subsidies
  73. Fat Chance
  74. Higgs on the Bailout
  75. Klinging to Sanity, With Spirit!
  76. Stan Liebowitz on the Mortgage Meltdown
  77. Bernstein on inequality
  78. Regime Uncertainty
  79. More Lazy Fare
  80. Lose the Teleological Mindset
  81. Laissez Faire to Blame?
  82. "Greed" Is Not an Explanation
  83. Stiglitz Errs
  84. Arnold and Bill
  85. Learning the wrong lessons
  86. Frozen Conventional Wisdom
  87. Government's Role
  88. The Noble Motivations Behind Regulations (Or, "We'll Take You to the Cleaners")
  89. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2nd edition
  90. The Concentration of Economic Power
  91. Let's Bail on the Bailout
  92. Still Hoping Against A Bailout
  93. Sensible Voices Against the Bailout
  94. On Frozen Credit Markets

September 2008

  1. Were Recent Economic Policies Really Designed by Milton Friedman?
  2. Should Government Make Health-Care As 'Affordable' As It's Made Housing?
  3. Thomas Sowell on the Bailout
  4. NO!
  5. Kling on the housing market and the mess
  6. Separation of Press and State
  7. Who’s Qualified?
  8. No Bailout
  9. More on manufactured homes
  10. Fannie and "manufactured homes"
  11. Cliff Witchalls on The Price of Everything
  12. "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor" Once Said the Boston Fed
  13. Lazy Fare
  14. Hopeless
  15. Did I See this Item in a New York Times Headline?
  16. How they think vs. how I think
  17. She Earned an F
  18. Slipping Down the Slope
  19. Halt
  20. Talk of the Nation on Greed
  21. Bob Higgs on Current Credit-Market Activity
  22. Book Bench
  23. More On ‘Industrial Policy’
  24. The Perils of 'Industrial Policy'
  25. Karol Boudreaux on Namibia's Wildlife
  26. Krugman gets the facts wrong
  27. Some bubble
  28. Two out of three isn't bad
  29. Shameful
  30. Genetically Engineered Chickens Coming Home to Roost
  31. Not from the Onion
  32. Good Thing We Have No ‘Steel Policy’
  33. Who's To Blame?
  34. Stiglitz on the crisis
  35. Fannie's and Freddie's Fates No Surprise to Good Economists
  36. Bear Stearns, the CRA, and Freddie Mac
  37. No money down, revisited
  38. It's not the CRA
  39. The role of the CRA
  40. Shiller and fundamentals
  41. And don't forget Andrew Cuomo
  42. Mallaby sees the danger
  43. The World of the States
  44. Infrastructure
  45. Did Gramm-Leach-Bliley Help Cause Today's Financial Turmoil?
  46. A Letter Inspired by Julian Simon's Insights
  47. Opposing the Bailout
  48. Principled Libertarians Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
  49. Walter Williams on the Market Correction
  50. Let's Hope this Trend Continues
  51. Julian Simon
  52. "Free Trade Allows for Competition"
  53. Calm down
  54. More on Short-Selling
  55. Affordable equals "subprime"
  56. Bill cared too
  57. Section 8
  58. Fannie and Freddie's other mission
  59. Zero Down!
  60. Fannie reaches its goals–sort of
  61. Housing markets without the benefit of hindsight
  62. Incentives matter (to fishermen and other living creatures)
  63. Many silver linings
  64. Doh
  65. The Costs of Protectionism
  66. Optimism Quickly Fading
  67. Make Risky Loans!
  68. Paul Johnson on Marxism, Freudianism, the Theory of Relativity, and Global Warming
  69. On the Current Financial Turmoil
  70. Some Reading on the Role of Money
  71. Quote of the day
  72. A Letter to a Politician
  73. Constitution Day
  74. Does Foreign Aid Promote Better Health?
  75. Markets Anticipate the Future
  76. Malice in Plunderland
  77. In defense of used books
  78. Panderer in chief
  79. Shiller on the housing market
  80. George Will on The Price of Everything
  81. The Economy Ain't In Bad Shape
  82. Bush shows he cares
  83. "The Hotel of Impossible Promises"
  84. Paul Krugman's Correct About Campaigns
  85. A multiple choice question on gasoline shortages
  86. Karma
  87. No Silk for Making Purses, Either
  88. Fashionable, If Ill-fitting, Economics
  89. Who is to blame?
  90. Does America Need a Trade Surplus?
  91. Budgets Have Two Sides
  92. Gagging Google
  93. Solow on financial institutions
  94. Money and Politics
  95. Kling on Freddie and Fannie
  96. Freddie and Fannie
  97. Joseph Ellis on American Creation
  98. Rising Incomes and Falling Income Statistics
  99. Dulce Et Decorum Est — Not
  100. Neocons Especially Should Pay Careful Attention to This Research
  101. An Hypothesis
  102. "Sex Is Pleasurable, Studies Show"
  103. Who You Gonna Call?
  104. Blinded by partisanship
  105. Samuelson on standard of living
  106. No Planning
  107. My Mellifluous Voice
  108. Monetary genius
  109. No End of Oil
  110. Freaky!
  111. Rauch on the Volt
  112. Chapter Two of The Price of Everything
  113. Social Creationism

August 2008

  1. Another Romantic and Ridiculous Assault on Modernity
  2. Time for Some Campaignin'
  3. A Cacophony of Claptrap
  4. An Open Letter to Sara
  5. Deconstructing Political Speech
  6. Yes, by all means, choose the teachers
  7. The Divorce Rate
  8. I So Wish that H. L. Mencken Were Still Alive
  9. "The People Have to Do the Work"
  10. Measuring inequality (with contest results)
  11. The Fantasy and the Reality of Politics
  12. Your Dog Does Not Own Your House
  13. Do Markets Need Government?
  14. The Perfect Political Speech
  15. Wipe that Smile Off of Your Face
  16. Humility, Schmumility
  17. Technique
  18. Décentralisation et Liberté
  19. Hayek in the Classroom
  20. Podcast on The Price of Everything
  21. Politics Brings Out the Fools in Nearly All of Us
  22. Frank Rich, economist
  23. ‘Personal Security’ Reasons for Not Trading?
  24. What's Fair?
  25. The Music of the Market
  26. Big Industry in Manufacturing Myths
  27. Gasoline Prices
  28. I, 'I, Pencil'
  29. Shell-lacked
  30. The Next Generation
  31. Inequality Chart Contest
  32. Government Brings Out the (Undisciplined) Kid in Us
  33. Economics Crimes
  34. The Price of Everything on the Kindle
  35. Taylor on monetary policy
  36. Liberalized Capital Accounts and Wages
  37. Prohibition Fuels Violence
  38. Rebecca Rules!
  39. The Course of Human Labor in Markets
  40. First Chapter of The Price of Everything
  41. On the Kindle and other gadgets
  42. Palmer on Liberty's Roots
  43. School Choice, Ol' Chap
  44. I, Dirt
  45. Frankly Confused
  46. Welcome Back, Muirgeo
  47. Norberg on Open Trade
  48. Giving Credit
  49. No Nudging
  50. A Profitable Lesson
  51. Good Economics on a Favorite Silly Idea
  52. The Minimum-Wage and Poverty
  53. Force Might Protect; It Never Creates
  54. No Plunder
  55. Culturally Appropirate Health-Care
  56. Big Visions for Energy
  57. The Price of Everything at Amazon
  58. Feathers and Rockets?
  59. Freedom of Expression
  60. Cuts Both Ways
  61. Obamanomics
  62. Conservatives vs. Libertarians
  63. Ted Stevens's Offense

July 2008

  1. "I Do Not Believe the State Has Any Right to Tell Me What to Put In My Head"
  2. Americans' Standard of Living
  3. The Volt
  4. Balko's questions
  5. Worry Not
  6. Tyler for a Moment
  7. Voters' Preferences are Not One-Dimensional
  8. Varian on technology
  9. Leisure Time Is Valuable
  10. Go Bulldog!
  11. Bastiatian Wisdom
  12. Silly Serious Ideas
  13. Reality Check
  14. Dusty Relics — Not
  15. Wal-Mart and Food
  16. Market Rally
  17. The Cost of Gasoline
  18. A Cause for Applause?
  19. Infrastructure and the State
  20. Inconsistent McCain
  21. Regulation by Markets, Not by Bureaucrats
  22. Casino Capitalism
  23. Southwest knows more than we do
  24. Coase and California
  25. Tax facts to remember
  26. Brains
  27. Rivers on polling
  28. Skepticism about prices
  29. Nonsense on Speculation
  30. Exposing Hypocrisy
  31. Sherman's Motives
  32. Only $5 Trillion
  33. Pageant of Ignorance
  34. Times Aren’t ’70s-Bad
  35. The Visitor
  36. A Hayekian Lesson
  37. Carnival of Contemptibles
  38. Classic Demagoguery
  39. Ellis on the American Creation
  40. Hanushek on school finance
  41. China, Wal-Mart, and Inequality
  42. Raise a Glass!
  43. Domestic Protectionism
  44. Nuts
  45. Campaign Econ Versus Real Econ
  46. Capitalism is Dead
  47. Oil Speculation
  48. Incentives, incentives
  49. Compulsory Volunteering
  50. Passover, Coke, and Ethanol
  51. Politicians Make My Eyes Tear Up
  52. More Kindling
  53. Munger on public transportation
  54. Natural Disasters and Capital Replacement
  55. Christmas in July
  56. Why Take these Clowns Seriously?
  57. Matthew Arnold on the True Apostles of Equality
  58. Summer Reading

June 2008

  1. Kling on health care management
  2. Wondering
  3. A Matter of Life and Death in South Africa
  4. Kindling
  5. Smith, Hayek, and Will on Society’s Complexity
  6. Lomborg on Dealing with Climate Change
  7. Waste Point
  8. Situational Ethics
  9. Silly Proposal
  10. Political Seduction, In Two Hemispheres
  11. Redistributing Grades
  12. Ideas Matter
  13. Thoughts on Oil
  14. Kaminsky on Sirota
  15. Egalitarian?
  16. Brain stuff
  17. Pennies from Heaven
  18. True Progressivism
  19. The Tragedy of Elian
  20. Boudreaux on energy prices
  21. Tabarrok on Krugman
  22. Musical Theater
  23. The Real Life of Low Carbon-Footprint Locavores
  24. What is Free Trade?
  25. Better
  26. Do YOU See It?
  27. Autarky is Bad Policy
  28. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
  29. Economics at GMU
  30. Schumpeter on Politicians
  31. How Pressing a Problem is Global Warming?
  32. Sweet Letter on a Sour Program
  33. On Savings
  34. Soaring Case for the Flat Tax
  35. Sweatshops
  36. Suggestions for Lowering Energy Prices

May 2008

  1. Supply and Demand Applied to Body Organs
  2. What’s Truly Sick
  3. On Women and Assets
  4. The Virtues of Innocence
  5. Good Reading in the FT
  6. I Wonder If Prof. Han Really Wants to Return to those Days
  7. The Good Old Days in China
  8. Hanson on Signalling
  9. "Every Human Life Counts"
  10. Two Letters on the Market
  11. House Subcommittee on Televised Posturing
  12. Hillary Clinton and Sexism
  13. Made Blue By Green Initiatives
  14. None of the State's Business
  15. Why prices rise
  16. Lentil stew for everyone!
  17. There is always a substitute
  18. The Price of Everything at Amazon
  19. Better than free
  20. Woe Is She
  21. Why it's none of your business
  22. None of your business
  23. Willie Sutton and Greg Mankiw
  24. Where Does Law Come From?
  25. Meltzer on money
  26. Spencer's Law
  27. True Campaign-Finance Reform
  28. Improving Forensic Evidence
  29. Peace and Free Trade
  30. Broder Unwittingly Helps to Expose the Beast
  31. "If Only People Had Half a Clue as to Why this is Happening!"
  32. Adam Smith on the China tragedy
  33. Free
  34. Perspective
  35. Peace and Free Trade
  36. A Great Arrrgggument
  37. Stamping Our Feet
  38. Peru, Trade, and Growth
  39. Workers and Employers
  40. Happy 109th, Fritz!
  41. Caplan on the Gas-Tax Holiday
  42. Rational Depending on Context
  43. In Defense of Usury
  44. Nye on wine (and war and taxes)
  45. The Coming Recession?
  46. Fair Advice
  47. On Smuggling and Law
  48. Seeing Past the Chicken Littles
  49. Unreasonable Reasonableness
  50. There are no prostitutes in Israel
  51. The Globalization of U.S. Business Investment

April 2008

  1. Frankly, Zywicki's Got the Better Argument
  2. Sickness is bad for your health
  3. Bernstein on trade
  4. Fuller Bellies With Freer Trade
  5. Families and percentiles
  6. The Least Attractive Jobs
  7. Wal-Mart Facts
  8. Price Controls and the Reign of Terror
  9. "Essentials" On Cars
  10. "A Clean and Snappy Place!"
  11. More Mitchell on Tax Policy
  12. Capitalism Day
  13. Benedict and Lou
  14. Adding to the Prosperity Pool
  15. Current-Account Deficit = Capital-Account Surplus
  16. Globalization Podcasts
  17. The Goal Is Consumption
  18. People Harmed by Capitalism or by "Green" Policies?
  19. Dangerous Expansion of the Fed's Power
  20. Manufacturing and Employment
  21. Shughart on Bailouts
  22. Mark Perry on Krugman and the Jobless Rate
  23. Krugman's Peculiar Sense of History
  24. Coyle on the soulful science
  25. Rewarding Bad Behavior
  26. No Cause for Pessimism
  27. Optimal Population?
  28. Commerce and Nature
  29. Green Is As Green Does
  30. The Market, Not Nature, Is Bountiful
  31. The Strange World of Harold Meyerson
  32. Bill vs. Barack
  33. The Monster That Is Mercantilism
  34. Get Involved By Avoiding Politics
  35. Striking out
  36. Iraq and Germany
  37. The Pessimistic Bias
  38. Oops
  39. Unintended Lesson
  40. Good Sense on the Housing Market
  41. Falling Housing Prices and Labor Mobility
  42. Making Americans Poorer
  43. McCloskey on capitalism and the virtues

March 2008

  1. I [Heart] America's Trade Deficit!
  2. Nothing Unbalanced About So-called "Trade Deficits"
  3. "Earth Hour" and the Dark Ages
  4. My Mom
  5. Blowing My Own Horn (or Kazoo)
  6. The Dark Art
  7. Even More Consumer Surplus!
  8. Masters Fellowship at GMU
  9. Always looking out for the little guy
  10. Bear Stearns debacle
  11. Memories
  12. Trade and National Defense
  13. Are workers falling behind because of rising health care costs?
  14. How Dare She
  15. Joe Kennedy II Wants More Regulation of the Oil Industry
  16. A Non Sequitur
  17. Is health care a right?
  18. Cowen on money
  19. Our Economy Is Not a Child’s Erector Set
  20. Emotional and Ethical Dwarfs
  21. If I Were A Shill for Industry….
  22. How do we know what we know about economics?
  23. Mamet on government and markets
  24. Markets and Community
  25. The Spitzer Matter: It IS Private
  26. Hooray for America’s Trade Deficit
  27. The Practicality of Free Trade
  28. Ikenson on Obama
  29. Ohio and NAFTA
  30. Celebrate Commerce
  31. We Should Expect No More
  32. What's the Buzz?
  33. Griswold on NAFTA, Manufacturing, and Ohio

February 2008

  1. Stagnation Contest
  2. More on debt
  3. Worse than I thought
  4. Half Full or Half Empty?
  5. Higgs of Louisiana (via Washington State via PA via Maryland via ….) on Immigration
  6. Shift Happens
  7. Orders and Organizations
  8. For the Exhibit Entitled "Truly Dumb Ideas"
  9. Laffer Curve: The Evidence
  10. Spare Me from Collectivism
  11. Sowell on EconTalk
  12. My Physcian Can't Bandage My Cut…. So I'll Trust Him Also to Educate My Son and to Run My Pension And to…..
  13. Talk About a Propensity to Truck, Barter, and Exchange! Or "Well Trained."
  14. Wealth, Savings and Debt
  15. A Review of Globalization
  16. Feed 2
  17. Prosperity and making stuff
  18. Vermeer's Hat
  19. Anchovy ice cream
  20. The Challenge is to Create, Not Jobs, but Wealth
  21. Living Beyond Our Paychecks?
  22. Low Standards
  23. Tyler Cowen on Elections
  24. Uncle Sam Clearly Does Not Live on a Budget
  25. For Our Friends in Brazil and Portugal
  26. Silly Stats
  27. But We Have Good INTENTIONS (supposedly)
  28. If Simon's Bet Had Been Repeated…..
  29. A Tribute to Julian Simon
  30. I Let My Voice Be Heard on Election Day!
  31. Nasty dogs?
  32. The Realist
  33. American Consumption
  34. Let Fly Real Competition
  35. Blowing in the wind
  36. A Sad Anniversary
  37. Who's Generous?
  38. The People's Romance
  39. The vanishing middle class
  40. With Such Standards, Everyone is Heroic
  41. Clinton and the Colonel
  42. Butt Out
  43. Learn the Laffer Curve

January 2008

  1. Feedback, knowledge and the division of labor
  2. The Wonky Genius
  3. Telling Stories
  4. Snapping his fingers
  5. Extend Commerce and You Extend Peace
  6. Ode to the Patriots
  7. The case for Clemens
  8. Viktor Schreckengost
  9. Nature of the Politician
  10. O'Rourke on Smith
  11. The Bottom Billion
  12. I Worry Much Less About the Reality than About the Reactions
  13. Landsburg on Stimulus
  14. The Great Mencken
  15. Evil Wal-Mart
  16. Bill Gates Was Creative at Microsoft
  17. The Hand of the State and the Virtual State
  18. Unintended Consequences
  19. The point about minimum wages
  20. Stimulie, II
  21. My Stimulus Plan
  22. What sets wages
  23. Spend or save
  24. Camp Keynes and Camp Classical
  25. Fama on Corporations and CEO Compensation
  26. Stimulie, I
  27. Winners and losers from trade
  28. Creating jobs for blacksmiths
  29. Victimized by Trade?
  30. Worstall on Bureaucratic Actions
  31. "24" circa 1994
  32. The Benefits of Immigration
  33. Stimulus
  34. Misbehaving Amazon? Or Misbehaving State?
  35. Not stagnant
  36. What to Expect When You’re Free Trading
  37. Freedom and the Ultimate Resource
  38. On the job leisure
  39. Munger on the firm
  40. Is he a cheetah?
  41. Lotts to Ponder
  42. Feelings. Nothing More Than Feelings….
  43. Walter Williams on Government Control Over Thermostatsl
  44. Tyler's Latest in the Times
  45. Nano Technology
  46. Competition is a Discovery Procedure
  47. A Critical Distinction
  48. Milking
  49. Competition, everywhere
  50. If America's Middle-Class is Disappearing, It's Only Because Ordinary Americans are Getting Richer and Richer
  51. Naomi vs. Milton
  52. More on Hillary Clinton's Tears
  53. Sincere Tears
  54. Virtual Salami
  55. Better than Bono
  56. Rampaging Regulators
  57. Why firms?
  58. Exodus to the virtual world
  59. I Still Don't Want My Son to Enter Politics
  60. Tierney on "Availability Entrepreneurs" and "Availability Cascades"
  61. Ballot-Box Myths
  62. On Export-Led Growth
  63. Strange Case of Dr. K and Mr. K
  64. Please, No Politicians In My Family
  65. Just for fun
  66. Voting paradox
  67. Government cheer
  68. George MacDonald Fraser, RIP
  69. Paths to Property
  70. More sunshine

2007 570

December 2007

  1. Affordable Health Care
  2. That '70s Show
  3. Perspective on Trade
  4. The Partisan Trap
  5. The Wages of Misunderstanding
  6. Krugman vs. Krugman, Again
  7. Regressive Attraction to Abstractions
  8. Another drawback of antitrust regulation
  9. Sunny Side Up
  10. But They Now Have A Larger Carbon Footprint!!!
  11. I'm Lovin' It!
  12. Dim Wits
  13. Future Jobs
  14. Promoting Safe Driving
  15. Stamping Out Misconceptions
  16. I Goofed, You Pay
  17. Globalization
  18. Doux Commerce
  19. Global warming causes everything, Part II
  20. Naivete
  21. Property rights in Africa
  22. Sweet Land of Liberty
  23. Steroids and science
  24. Clemens vindicated
  25. Exposing a Bad Idea
  26. The Mitchell Report
  27. Typepad and the "remember personal info" when commenting
  28. Intro to the wonderful world of Austrian economics
  29. Storms are more like Super Bowl Sunday and less like Valentine's Day
  30. Must Any Job Necessarily Be Done by Human Labor?
  31. The Moment Somone Must Explain that He or She Isn't a Protectionist, You Can Bank on that Person Being a Protectionist
  32. Down With Economic Nationalism
  33. Can't Get No
  34. Pigs Still Don't Fly
  35. Incentives vs. preaching
  36. The change in our standard of living
  37. A Wonderful Anniversary. Drink Up!
  38. Remind Me Why These Officials Bear the Title "Hon."
  39. Fair trade and free trade
  40. Pigs Don't Fly
  41. Not from the Onion
  42. Everything is caused by global warming
  43. Self-imposed sanctions
  44. Continuing Assaults
  45. Shocking!

November 2007

  1. Should Americans Worry That Foreigners Hold Lots of Dollar Assets?
  2. Taking the Long View
  3. Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2nd Edition
  4. Economic Mobility is Real
  5. Different Data
  6. Which Is It?
  7. Nature
  8. The Browning of Britain?
  9. More on the Absurdity of "Localization"
  10. Progressive Superstition
  11. Prescription for John Edwards
  12. David Henderson on Robert Frank
  13. Crackpot Realism
  14. Caveat emptor
  15. More progress
  16. Threat of a law suit
  17. Rwandan Coffee, Commerce, and Cooperation
  18. There’s No Farm Bill Like No Farm Bill
  19. Fake news
  20. Miracles Performed Beneath Marble Domes
  21. Worst case scenarios
  22. Harold Berman: A Great Scholar
  23. Empty? Mindless?
  24. "It's Getting Better All the Time"
  25. On Krugman on Social Security
  26. Don on antitrust
  27. Bonus podcast on health care costs
  28. "Christ, Marx, Wood, and Wei Led Us to this Perfect Day"
  29. Legalize Organ Sales
  30. Why we trade
  31. Swarm
  32. Unhappy Development
  33. Market tyranny?
  34. A Curious Inconsistency
  35. Did Capitalism Cause the Great Depression?
  36. Friedman on "Greed," Markets, and Politics
  37. Keeping Straight the Facts About Trade
  38. Bhagwati on Trade
  39. Remove the Stench
  40. His fault
  41. "We Won't Stop Making Our Citizens Poorer Until You Stop Making Your Citizens Poorer!"
  42. Made in ?, Part II
  43. A Response
  44. Made in ?
  45. Pass the doughnuts
  46. Trade Promotes Prosperity
  47. Contract incentives
  48. Sunstein nails it
  49. Sowell on 'giving back'
  50. Foxes Guarding the Henhouse
  51. Cut those costs!
  52. Romer transcript
  53. The big impact of pharmaceutical industry profits
  54. EconTalk reminder
  55. Growth in health care expenditures
  56. We're Richer Today. Period.
  57. How Visible Are Differences in Incomes?
  58. A Note on Income Data
  59. Cleaned by Capitalism
  60. "Your Call Is Very Important to Us"
  61. Vote for EconTalk
  62. My response to Robin's latest

October 2007

  1. Leland Yeager on Trade
  2. iPhone pricing
  3. Illicit Use of "Illegal"?
  4. A few more empirical thoughts
  5. Tragedy of the commons
  6. Bruce BDM is Good
  7. If This Is Monopoly In Action, Bring It On
  8. Just Fix It
  9. Progress
  10. Be Very Scared
  11. The War and Wildfires
  12. The Benefits of Trade
  13. Bufoonery
  14. The Dirtiest of Dirty Jobs
  15. A Dearth of Taxes?
  16. The tragicomic state of public education
  17. No Corporate Welfare
  18. Does It Matter that Other People Save? Yes. Does the Nationality of these Savers Matter? No
  19. Consolation
  20. Fooling ourselves
  21. Investment Does NOT ‘Weigh Down’ Economic Growth
  22. And Think of the Horrors Unleashed by Penicillin!
  23. Friedman Explains The Point
  24. The Essence of a Masonomist
  25. Will Gore Warm to Stossel?
  26. Some wisdom from Will
  27. Stop Screening
  28. Costs and Benefits
  29. The Backlash
  30. George Will on the American Idea
  31. Boettke on the New Laureates
  32. In the Teeth of the State
  33. Misleading about Leadership
  34. Nobel, 2007
  35. Frank Talk
  36. Lomborg on Gore
  37. More on the race
  38. Rudy's to lose
  39. GOP debate
  40. Some wisdom from Schumpeter
  41. Reality Is Not Optional
  42. On Comparative Advantage
  43. Rating Postal Rates
  44. Word for the Day: Pleonasm
  45. Cowen (and Manne) on Klein (and Stiglitz)
  46. The virtues of liberty
  47. Mike Munger is never late
  48. Robber Barons
  49. A part of the mafia
  50. Employment and wages
  51. Fishing

September 2007

  1. Conflicting Survey Results
  2. Sweepstates
  3. A Grab Bag with Munger
  4. Tyler's New Book
  5. The Case for Increasing Supplies of Petroleum
  6. Really?!?!
  7. TANSTAAFNP
  8. The Inner Cowen
  9. Schumpeter
  10. Destruction and eminent domain
  11. The Mad Money Machine
  12. The Ultimate Indictment
  13. The UnNatural?
  14. Epstein on zoning and Kelo
  15. A Note On My Anti-Anti-Immigration Argument
  16. The State of Manufacturing in the U.S.
  17. Privatize It
  18. Stossel on Moore
  19. More room
  20. The dwindling importance of unions
  21. A Libertarian Case for Restricting Immigration?
  22. The next generation
  23. A Dedicated Politician
  24. Your inner economist
  25. Liberals, Conservatives, and Change
  26. Shocked!
  27. Challenges for the BLS
  28. Ankiel
  29. Good luck, BLS
  30. Should charity be tax deductible?
  31. Poverty and immigration
  32. The Economics of Shame
  33. Thirteen years later
  34. Competiton is a Dynamic Process
  35. Carbon Footprints
  36. Shultz on economics and foreign policy
  37. Exports are Costs; Imports are Benefits

August 2007

  1. Eat Global
  2. Another strike against libertarian paternalism
  3. DeLong looks back
  4. Dyson on climate
  5. Grateful for Immigrants
  6. Cape Cod Traffic
  7. Romer on growth
  8. Jibbitzing in the Prosperity Pool
  9. In Vino Veritas
  10. Ain't It So?!
  11. Newsflash: Africans Swamped by Too Many Goods!!!
  12. Rank Ranking
  13. On Skies and Airports
  14. Do Something??
  15. Exports, Imports, and Green-Red Herrings
  16. Keep Mining Your Own Business
  17. Hot Heads
  18. Frank Talk on Status
  19. For Whose Benefit?
  20. You Want Balance?
  21. Tax Burden
  22. My Brand of Economics
  23. Protectionism Reveals Its True Colors
  24. Uncle Sam's Mission
  25. Two worlds
  26. The virtues of scalping
  27. Quality of Education
  28. Regressives
  29. Nation-States and Foreign Direct Investment
  30. Up Is Down
  31. Title Search
  32. The challenge of the title

July 2007

  1. A title for my next book
  2. Burgeoning Opera
  3. When economists disagree
  4. A Lesson from Passport Control
  5. Like a Virus
  6. The Politics of Prohibition
  7. BDM on Reagan and Yeltsin
  8. Abundant Social Change
  9. Tolstoy on Hayek
  10. Scalping
  11. Smoot's a Hoot
  12. "Faith" In Free Trade?
  13. Why I Don't Fear Predatory Pricing
  14. Capitalism: The Great Anti-Pollutant
  15. Cartoons, Capital, and Competition
  16. What the founders understood
  17. Leamer on outsourcing and competition
  18. Unwholesome Antitrust
  19. Easterly vs. Bono
  20. Unclean Politics Means Unclean Energy
  21. King George "Lou Dobbs" III
  22. The world isn't flat
  23. Munger and more Munger
  24. Where Externalities Lie
  25. Do Windfall-Profits Taxes Apply to Politicians?
  26. Chinese Atrocity
  27. What Do Investors Know?

June 2007

  1. Mario Rizzo on Income Differences
  2. Delusional Young People
  3. An Anecdote on Health Care
  4. Anti-Antitrust
  5. A Dangerous Financial Product
  6. A New Deal for Globalization?
  7. Mayor Mike's Most Recent Folly
  8. The web and political philosophy
  9. More on Smoot-Hawley
  10. They're So Lazy We Must Use Force to Stop Them from Working
  11. Wonderful world
  12. Young entrepreneurs
  13. The myth of the rational voter
  14. Illegal Immigrants
  15. An Ominous Anniversary
  16. Thou Shalt Not Prosper
  17. Don't Be Sari
  18. The future of work
  19. Landsburg on Human Progress
  20. Merit-based immigration
  21. Ooops
  22. Wages in China
  23. Giant Blowing Sound
  24. Bottle tops
  25. The Information Stream
  26. The Deep Substance of An 'Empty Slogan'
  27. Imperfect markets, imperfect government
  28. Take Note: Irish Immigrants Never Led a Papal Invasion of these United States
  29. Birthdays
  30. The Big Deal
  31. Kidney show a hoax
  32. Where do prices come from?
  33. Shlaes on the Depression
  34. Jobs in a Market Economy
  35. If A Disdains B's Freedoms, B Will Return the Favor
  36. The Reality Reflected by Prices
  37. Actions Speak Louder than Boos
  38. One of America's Greatest Imports

May 2007

  1. More(iss) on Gasoline Prices
  2. Mine Your Own Business
  3. Pigs are Pigs
  4. The Double Thank-You
  5. Polticians See Only Little Puffs of Smoke
  6. Fishy Reasons; or Dam Collective Action
  7. The Big Donor Show
  8. Slaughtering Schumer
  9. Hanson on Health
  10. Some Economics of Homeland Security
  11. The Answer Is In the Margin
  12. The Reality of the Influence of 'The Myth'
  13. More on Rachel Carson's Grim Legacy
  14. 'Environmentalism' Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
  15. Nudging Us — With Advice, or with Guns?
  16. Will the So-Called "Reality-Based" Community Condemn this Affront to Reality?
  17. The Study America Act
  18. Malum in se; malum prohibitum
  19. On Immigration
  20. Slaughtering a Myth
  21. Chutzpah
  22. Nozick on democracy
  23. Voltaire's Disdain
  24. What's the big deal?
  25. Vernon (and Fred) Smith
  26. Dogs Bark
  27. Stealth Site
  28. What can we expect from government?
  29. Will on gouging
  30. Preying on the Poor
  31. Kling on Medical Care; Or, How Americans are Screwing Themselves
  32. They care so much about me
  33. Marvelous Arrangement
  34. Away with Monetary Nationalism
  35. Eliminate the USPS's Monopoly Privilege
  36. Some Thoughts on Science
  37. Unintended Consequences
  38. The use of knowledge
  39. Who Said It?
  40. The Improving State of the World
  41. Caplan on Economic Ignorance and Public Choice
  42. Free Trade, Unilaterally
  43. Wolf in the hen house
  44. Monkeys and Typewriters
  45. Civilized? Progressive?
  46. Free markets vs. business
  47. Political Pandering
  48. Still Living at 108
  49. Blinder on Offshoring
  50. Investment is Investment
  51. In defense of self-interest and profits
  52. Job Creation
  53. Civilization and Nature
  54. Who Wants to Get Back to Nature?
  55. Immigrants, Work, & Welfare
  56. Beyond the Irony
  57. The road to prosperity
  58. Satel's Kidney
  59. Ten Really Good Books
  60. The Power of Competition

April 2007

  1. What’s the Relevance of Rodrik’s Point?
  2. Black Swans
  3. Should Americans Worry About Foreign-Government Holdings of Dollar-Denominated Assets?
  4. The Truth of the Rational Scholar
  5. Walter Williams and Casey Lartigue
  6. Filthy coal
  7. If Rents Can Be Created, They Will Be Sought
  8. Clutch hitting
  9. Layoffs and Profits
  10. British guns
  11. Africans Need Capitalism
  12. Reaping Rewards from Human Capital
  13. Rabushka on the flat tax
  14. Local Nonsense
  15. Tenure and Free Trade
  16. Laissez-Nous Faire
  17. Facts Vs. Faith
  18. Learn Public Choice
  19. Rent Extraction
  20. The Natural Response
  21. Separation of Procedures
  22. Find the error
  23. Taxing the Rich
  24. Detecting quality
  25. On buying local
  26. Express Intelligibly
  27. Cancer Is Not the Killer That it Once Was
  28. Vonnegut on "Equality"
  29. Bogle on investing
  30. How foreigners view the President
  31. Patrolling Incentives
  32. More Paper Principles
  33. How Different is Now?
  34. Global Warming Quiz
  35. Remember when they were going to take all our jobs?
  36. Buying Local
  37. Efficiencies Are a Service to People
  38. The Division of Labor
  39. The Festival of Freedom
  40. The Income Race
  41. Play Ball
  42. Boaz on Leonhardt on Doherty

March 2007

  1. Paper Principles
  2. Who's Irresponsible?
  3. Golden Straw Man
  4. Creating Value
  5. Some Basic Economics
  6. Our Books
  7. Kevin Kelly
  8. Mercantilist Illogic
  9. Richard Lindzen, Skeptic
  10. The imperfect market for passports
  11. Resource Conservation in Namibia
  12. People before profits
  13. How to Succeed in New Orleans
  14. Easterly on Africa
  15. Great minds think alike
  16. What’s the Difference?
  17. Global warming tragicomedy
  18. The company I keep
  19. Leonhardt on the media
  20. Out of Africa
  21. More on Interpreting Statistics
  22. Flagging Unconstitutional Protectionism
  23. Using and Misusing Statistics
  24. War on Humanity
  25. Globalization and Income Inequality
  26. Economic Consequences of NAFTA
  27. Who Shoulders the Tax Burden?
  28. The Trade Deficit and Economic Performance
  29. All global warming, all the time
  30. A Marginal Podcast
  31. Protectionists Never Learn
  32. On Expectations and Flexibility
  33. Mantra vs. Reality
  34. Renovating the cafe
  35. Ignore Foreign Subsidies
  36. Vernon Smith on Free Market Environmentalism
  37. Adaptation, Prices, and Climate Change
  38. Storing Our Prosperity
  39. Walter Reed and Government-Provided Universal Health Care
  40. Skeptic of Combating Global Warming
  41. Traffic without traffic signals
  42. Satellite Radio Competition
  43. Income and Health
  44. Hardy Free Trade
  45. Easterbrook on Progress
  46. Markets process information
  47. Klein on economists
  48. I Do Not Endorse The Policy Described Here (But Sen. Clinton Should)
  49. Beyond Hypocrisy
  50. Letter to Sen. Clinton
  51. Liberty, Income Equality, and Tyranny
  52. Order emerges in unexpected places
  53. Zillowicious
  54. Private Property, Personality, and Humanity
  55. Questions for Podcast Guests
  56. Stewart Brand
  57. Never give both sides when you know you're right

February 2007

  1. First, Cut Spending
  2. All Power is Dangerous
  3. Autism and TV
  4. Competing with High-Wage Workers
  5. Sunstein on information
  6. Speed limits as an emergent phenomenon
  7. Money and Intimacy
  8. On Attitudes Toward Immigrants
  9. Snow Job
  10. Addicted to Spending
  11. The Economic Meaninglessness of Political Borders
  12. More on Foreign Currency Values
  13. Steely Inconsistency
  14. Defending Free Speech and Free Trade
  15. Breast milk hoax?
  16. Breast milk for lodging
  17. Jousting on global warming
  18. Steve Jobs on teacher unions
  19. For Free Men and Women
  20. End of an era
  21. Epstein on property rights and patents
  22. A Note on Household Income and Women Entering the Workforce
  23. Jane Galt on Consistency
  24. Fudenberg on Behavioral Economics
  25. I'm a hack
  26. Russ Roberts on Unions
  27. Sam Walton or Bono?
  28. Reflections on the Desert
  29. Some Economic History
  30. The future might not be like the past
  31. Leave it alone
  32. Why they make so much
  33. Hmmmm
  34. The Enemy of the People
  35. Hooray for a Strong Dollar
  36. The Economist's Friend
  37. Patience is a virtue
  38. The Blogosphere as Spontaneous Order
  39. Zing
  40. Ignoring Political and Economic Science
  41. Democracies vs. Dictatorships
  42. Not Just (In) Deserts
  43. I Might Have Added That They Also are Cowards
  44. Let's Have Less Hot Air About Global Warming
  45. Like Humidity in New Orleans….
  46. No Human Saviors
  47. TANSTAAFT
  48. The political economy of global warming
  49. Getting the most out of life
  50. Animation Contest Update with caveats
  51. Familiar and Deplorable
  52. Hazlett on the Global Village
  53. Animation Contest
  54. Real communists
  55. Capitalism and the rest of us
  56. A Brief Primer on Trade Deficits
  57. Lucas on Growth, Poverty, and Business Cycles
  58. Xenophobia is Poor Public Policy
  59. Pre-game thoughts
  60. The master at work
  61. What do women want?
  62. Chief Bootlegger
  63. Exchange Rates and Politics

January 2007

  1. Help Wanted
  2. The Power of Innovation
  3. On the Nature of Politics
  4. Milton on PBS tonight
  5. Podcast with Michael Lewis
  6. Comic genius
  7. Green Bootleggers
  8. State, Society, and Unemployment Insurance
  9. "The Prohibitory System"
  10. The Wages of the Minimum-Wage
  11. The Pot and the so-called Kettle
  12. Cowen, Gates, Boudreaux, and Regressive Taxation
  13. A bigger tangle
  14. The Downside of Empire
  15. What is vs. what I wish it were
  16. The Law of One Price
  17. When Pigous Don't Have Wings
  18. Credit Competition
  19. Taking advantage of people's need
  20. What Galileo Must Have Felt
  21. On "Libertarian Paternalism"
  22. What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
  23. The Point
  24. Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists
  25. Instapundit on Gun Ownership
  26. Choosing your parents
  27. And It'll Reduce Honduras's Trade Deficit
  28. Billboard Jobs
  29. The System Is the Solution
  30. Picture the Minimum Wage
  31. Promoting Economic Communication
  32. Steve and Al
  33. The top 1% is a red herring
  34. Public Choice 101
  35. Feedback, please
  36. Visual thinking
  37. The most beautiful toy, yet
  38. Would Hayek vote for Mark McGwire?
  39. More on the "Harm" from Trade
  40. Munger on gouging
  41. The Haves and Have-Nots
  42. Trade and Romance
  43. A Simple Question
  44. The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data
  45. Uncreative Destruction
  46. The Empirical Literature on the Minimum Wage
  47. More on the Minimum-Wage
  48. George Will nails it
  49. Economist wins iPod on Sunday
  50. On the edge
  51. Movie Economics
  52. An Open Letter to Lou Dobbs
  53. I Wonder If Sherrod Brown's Voice Sounds Anything At All Like that of Boris Karloff
  54. Economic Change
  55. Minimum-Workforce Legislation
  56. Modernizing the Cafe

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