2013
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2013 1,086
December 2013
- Malarkey
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A “Barrier” to Reducing Income Inequality??
- Quotation of the Day…
- Does Paul Krugman Realize That He Just Emasculated the Case for Minimum-Wage Legislation?
- Rockin’ in the New Year: 1964!
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Lots More Questions Where These Come From
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Obamacare in A Single Sentence
- Julian Simon Would Not Be Surprised
- Merry Merry Mug Shot
- Quotation of the Day…
- Questions About and For Those People Obsessed With Income Inequality
- Quotation of the Day…
- They’re all bootleggers
- Who Is ‘We’?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Don’t Like Reality? Close Your Eyes and Make It Go Away!
- Do We Really Want Such Jobs to Return to America?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Call Me a Dim-Witted Faux-Populist Moralist
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not to Mention Private Investors’ Greater Relevant Experience
- “All I Want This Holiday Season Is An End to Quantitative Easing…”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Caterpillar Cronyism
- Affordable Health Care
- Quotation of the Day…
- Liberty.me
- Some Links
- An Open Letter to Bob Keener
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman On Income Differences
- Cronyism and Inequality
- Quotation of the Day…
- With Apologies to Steve Landsburg
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Labor Market Research
- Quotation of the Day…
- Poor Economics at The Economist
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Water Does Run Down Hill After All
- On Toleration
- Quotation of the Day…
- Three Non-Economic Ways of Thinking
- One of Many Reasons to Oppose Export Restrictions
- Listen to a master teacher
- The Economic Way of Thinking
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Point, Minimally Stated
- Again, More on the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Additional Questions for Minimum-Wage Proponents
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Minimum-Wage Links
- Obama and the Evidence on the Employment Consequences of Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Competing for Maximum Opportunities to Cooperate
- Support GMU Econ’s Unique Efforts to Keep Alive – and Thriving – Sound Economic Education, Research, and Outreach
- TANSTAFHF
- Some Data on Reagan and Black Unemployment
- Quotation of the Day…
- Scott Atherley on Mokyr and Cowen
- Eric Mustin on Mokyr and Cowen
- Dallas Weaver on Mokyr and Cowen
- EconTalk Contest Winners
- Maximum Insight Into Minimum Wages
- Quotation of the Day…
- You Picked A Fine Time to Leave Me, Blue Shield
- Presidential economics
- Novel Economic Theories
- EconTalk Contest Update
- More Questions for Proponents of Pricing Low-Skilled Workers Out of Jobs
- Good Thoughts on the Bad Policy of Pricing People Out of Jobs
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Hungry For Freedom
- Some Additional Questions for Proponents of Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Quotation of the Day…
- Krugman Concludes That the Evidence for Minimum-Wage Legislation Is Strong If the Evidence Against Minimum-Wage Legislalation Is Ignored
- Some Questions for Minimum-Wage Proponents
- The Incredible Bread Machine
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not to Mention that the Origin of the U.S. Minimum Wage Had Nothing to Do with ‘Fairness’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
November 2013
- What’s With this Fetish for Force?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Boston Commons
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Less a Commonwealth than a Great Society Grounded in Private Property Rights and Bourgeois Dignity
- Quotation of the Day…
- Full Disclosure: For Me the Burden of Proof Is On Those Who Argue for Government Regulation
- A Note on Information Asymmetry
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Flying Higher
- Or Quoting Dan Ikenson, “Made On Earth”
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Note on Quality and GDP Numbers
- EconTalk Contest!
- Tyler Cowen, Though, Is Less Sanguine than I Am
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Healthcare.gov and the Knowledge Problem
- A Shameful Trade
- Yes, Minor
- Quotation of the Day…
- Honk If You Understand that the Premise is Inherently Unworkable
- An 1897 Sears Catalog
- I, Smartphone
- Tullamore Dew
- A Question About Costs & Benefits
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’s to Blame?
- The curious task
- Pseudo-Economics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Complements and Not So Much Substitutes
- The effect of demographic change on measured progress
- The Great Stagnation?
- Bryan Caplan on the Awful State of Pop Economic History
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Changes in measured GDP aren’t capturing everything
- I heart Vi Hart
- Inequality in two graphs
- How much do I read for EconTalk?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ford had a Better Idea
- Now for something completely different
- Klein on NGRAMs
- Deaton on health, wealth, poverty, and inequality
- Quotation of the Day…
- Scott Sumner Has Some Data on Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Blaming Dallas
- “Unlike You, I Refuse to Protect Myself from Danger. So Compensate Me!”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The President’s explanation for his broken promise
- Externalizing Internalities
- Quotation of the Day…
- Gerrymandered – as ‘State’ed??
- Some Links
- The future or just fantasy?
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Mindin’ Other People’s Business Seems to be High-Tone….”
- Quick Question
- When facts aren’t facts
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- “Progressive” Pre-Smithian Economics
- Quotation of the Day…
- The emergent nature of the NFL locker room
- Matt Ridley’s Adam Smith Institute Lecture
- Some Links
- Why it’s hard for politicians to stop coddling Wall Street
- Deficient Economic Analysis
- Do Not Skate Over the Deep Complexities of Spontaneous Order
- Quotation of the Day…
- Rules Should Rule
- Open Letter to U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Sowell and Buckley
- The Economic Way of Thinking
- Quotation of the Day…
- News Flash: Some Business Owners Want to Price Low-Skilled Workers Out of Jobs
- What About a Maximum Wage?
- Quotation of the Day…
- The code in the NFL
- The Collective Is Not a Relevant Alternative to the Individual
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil”
- Shiller on whether economics is a science
- Words Matter
- Wisdom from Arnold Kling
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- John Ralston Saul on EconTalk
- TANSTAFHC
- The Greatest Risks to Food Supplies Are Posed by Anti-Market Sentiments and Intrusions
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Free” Policies Aren’t Free
- Quotation of the Day…
- Then and Now
- No Monopsony Presumed by This Minimum-Wage Advocate
- Harry Gordon Selfridge
- A Grade of “F” in Economics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Bonus Quotations of the Day…
- A Note on Entrepreneurial Alertness
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Still Believe That Minimum-Wage Proponents Should be Judged By How Willing They Are to Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on the Nature and Dangers of Inflation
October 2013
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Practical Economic Advice
- Premium Politics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on Government’s Role in Health Care
- Some Links
- Game Six Thoughts
- Thoughts on Monopsonistic and Monopolistic Competition
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Ask Again: Can We Sue for Fraudulent Misrepresentation?
- A Note on Bargaining Power
- An Empirical Conclusion
- Boudreaux on Coase
- The Little League World Series
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Simple Phrase for Unleashing Complex, Beneficial Processes
- The Real Knowledge Problem
- Quotation of the Day…
- Can We Sue for Fraudulent Misrepresentation?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Life, Times, and Contributions of Rose and Milton Friedman
- Some Additional Questions for Proponents of a Legislated Minimum Wage
- The Science of the Minimum-Wage Debate
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Legislated Minimum Wage: A Survey of Much Scientific Research
- Ed Crane’s Wisdom
- Starting all over again is going to be hard
- Uber Wars
- Almost All Expression Can Serve Useful Ends
- Black Box Macro
- World Series Thoughts
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman Mops Up Some Mischievous Myths of History
- Innocents and Goons
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Was Lawrence Klein Right About Why There Was No Post-War Slump?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Breathing the feverish air
- Hard cop. For now. Until the next time.
- Milton Friedman on Capitalism, Freedom, and Slavery
- Some Links
- Social Science
- Deepak Lal on Minimum-Wage Legislation and the Relevance of the Monopsony Model
- Creationism Lives
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on Free Trade
- The Evil that is Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Some Links
- What’s So Special About an Hour?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Vernon Smith Talks with Nick Gillespie
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Econ-Diversity of Beer
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Modern Discrimination
- Quotation of the Day…
- Prove That You Believe the Descriptive Accuracy of the Monopsony Model
- Memo to Pres. Obama: Raise America’s Trade Deficit!
- Goodies
- Data Are Unlikely to Settle This Dispute
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on What the Rich Do With Their Money – and on the Minimum Wage
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- John Ralston Saul on knowledge and human nature
- Minimum-Wage Legislation Lowers the Cost of Discriminating According to Race When Hiring
- Quotation of the Day…
- Another Gem from the New Deal
- Crowd-Sourcing Research Help for George Selgin
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Greedy Profit-Maximizers Are Mysteriously Sometimes Indifferent to Maximum Profits
- Laws vs. legislation in baseball
- Antony Davies on Legislated Minimum Wages
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Walter Grinder: Happy Birthday!
- The Compassionate Science
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on Pricing Low-Skilled Workers Out of Jobs with Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Hope springs eternal
- Sneak peak at Monday’s EconTalk
- Quotation of the Day…
- John Stossel and Walter Williams on the Minimum Wage
- I, Airplane
- (With Apologies to John Stossel) Give Me a Break
- Quotation of the Day…
- Will Yellen matter?
- A different path for the Fed
- Minimum Wage: No Laughing Matter
- NYT: Basic Economics Explains Political Exchange but Not Private Exchange
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Sharing Economy, A Reprise
- Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell on the Minimum Wage as Maximum Folly
- By Definition, “By Definition” Doesn’t Work Here
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman and Walter Williams on Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Some Links
- The perils of pregnancy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Has the question of Keynesianism been settled?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Campaigning for Competition
- Quotation of the Day…
- If They Don’t Get This Point, Much of What We Say Sounds Like Gibberish to Them
- Two Reviews in Barron’s
- Quotation of the Day…
- Flexible Prices and Wages: the Great Equalizers
- Question Prompted by the Government “Shutdown”
- Health and fitness update
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Fallacy of the Special Case
- Don’t Toast This Centenary
- On the Relatively Low Salaries of Relatively Essential Workers
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Questions for My Fellow Economists
- Politics trumps economics
- Destroying Civil Society
- That Possibility Can’t Be Ruled Out As a Matter of Theory
- Victimized by the ‘War on Drugs’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Spare Me – and Walter Williams – Your Self-Serving and Insulting Sermonizing
- Quotation of the Day…
- Personal Bleg
- Two Thoughts on the Government Shut-Down
September 2013
- Right
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- 1970s Gasoline in America and 20-teens Health-Care in “Progressive” Countries
- Law Antecedent
- F.A. “Kahneman” Hayek
- Should I Thank the F.D.A.?
- Deserves a Link of Its Own: The Calamity of Chavez
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Paul Krugman on Plutocracy
- Thankful for Modernity, Case #708,083,549
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Sillynomics
- It’s Possible That….
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Is Any of This the Business of the State?
- The real competition
- Krugman Makes It Easy
- How Seriously Does He Take His Own Diagnosis?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Hope That I Never Enjoy Any Such ‘Advantage’
- George Selgin on Free Banking and the Free Society
- Quotation of the Day…
- Is Krugman Friedman?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Indur Goklany on Improved Environmental Conditions
- “Witch Hunts Always Find Witches”
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- T.B. Macaulay – a True Liberal – on Progress
- Some Links
- Unemployment and the Minimum Wage
- Ritholtz and the Big Lie
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Great Reset?
- Seeking Answers from Minimum-Wage Proponents
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- A Minimum-Wage Note
- Reason Interview of George Will
- Quotation of the Day…
- Live Long and Prosper
- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Reality Suspended in Ideologically Convenient Places
- Self-Responsibility
- Quotation of the Day…
- Shame on Joe Stiglitz, Part II
- My Favorite American
- Ilya Somin on Democracy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yet Even More on the Minimum Wage
- “Keep Your Laws Off of My Body!”
- More bankruptcy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Are There Today No Milton Friedmans?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s Not Really a Taxingly Difficult Subject
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- They Should Instead Be Singing Wal-Mart’s Praises
- Quotation of the Day…
- Manufacturing Myths on the March
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Some Links
- Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society (posted by Russ Roberts)
- The Great Disconnect
- Quotation of the Day…
- The intellectual bankruptcy of macroeconomics (by Russ Roberts)
- New York City tax economics (by Russ Roberts)
- George Selgin on Booms, Busts, Monetarism, and Austrians
- Quotation of the Day…
- Three Immigration Links on this Labor Day
- Ronald Coase, 1910-2013
- Comparative Advantage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
August 2013
- The Wages of Economic Ignorance
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Occupation for Cowards
- How Well Can a Worker Live Off of an Hourly Wage of $0.00?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Everyday Millions of Strangers Work for You
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s hard to stop market forces
- Stiglitz caricatures Becker
- Milton Friedman on Confiscatory Inheritance Taxation
- I, Too, Have a Dream
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- People are Rational and Self-Interested
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Thank Goodness NYC Rent-Control Regulation Keeps Rents in that City Low! Oh, Wait….
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bill Niskanen Would Agree
- Quotation of the Day…
- The French Model
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Johnny Carson Moved the Demand Curve Outward
- The Deficit Is in Economic Understanding
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- But the Gasoline Back then Did Contain Lead
- I’ve been busy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Say ‘No!’ to Would-Be Overlords
- Quotation of the Day…
- Colorblind – But Only Occasionally
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- This Way Is So Much Less Bothersome
- Buchanan-Tullock
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Ignorance and Political Opportunism: Bipartisan Failures
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Cap South
- Hard-Boiled Cronyism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- White on Krugman and Friedman on Hayek
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Yet Another Way that Government Helps American Families
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Another Open Letter to Paul Krugman
- Quotation of the Day…
- Stop Nudging Me
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Legalize Prostitution
- Quotation of the Day…
- Capitalism Is Awesome
- Jim Buchanan on the Myth of *THE* Public Interest
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Insufferable Incivility of Civil Forfeiture
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Epstein vs. Obama
- Irwin vs. Navarro
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- F.A. Hayek vs. Milton Friedman on Macroeconomic Theory
- Justifying Government Steeling for Cronies
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Two Immigration Links
- Trade-Economics Assistance
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Note on the Fly
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Like Hurricane Coleman
- Open the Borders!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
July 2013
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Slave to the Seen
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Unjust Subsidy Clothed in a Misleading Name
- Public Choice Theorizing is Never Optional
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- From the Monkey Cage
- Bastiat Matters
- Quotation of the Day…
- Spontaneous Order Is More than Markets
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ham-Fisted ‘Help’ for the Poor
- Debating the Minimum Wage
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Sharing Economy
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Point Stands
- Two Items from Cato on Immigration
- Quotation of the Day…
- $100 Bills, Lying Idly and In Open View on Sidewalks, Just Waiting to be Picked Up
- Economists for Fair Wages – i.e., Wages Set by Markets
- Josh Rauh answers Krugman and Baker
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Improving Lives by Lowering Mean and Median Wage Rates
- Quotation of the Day…
- Question
- Expanding the Meaning of ‘Efficiency’
- This Scourge Must Stop
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Behavioral Economists Especially Should Appreciate this Point
- Thomas Sowell and Immigration
- The Potential of Freedom
- Here’s An Opportunity for Further Self-Exposure
- Quotation of the Day…
- And, Do Note, the Money They Are Spending Is Theirs – Not Other People’s
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Accommodating Immigrants
- An Especially Appropriate Day to Recall Some of Adam Smith’s Wisdom
- Quotation of the Day…
- Buses and the State
- Capitalism and the Environment
- Some Links
- The George Zimmerman Verdict
- Quotation of the Day…
- Answer Me This About Mandated Minimum Wages
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Prosperity Through Higher Costs
- Higgs on Lebergott on the Great Depression
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- If Only Most Americans Still Had Those Great Agricultural Jobs of the Past….
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- What If Physics Were Done Like Mercantilist Economics?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- What’s Behind the Downward Slope of a Seller’s Demand Curve?
- In Our Second-Best World, Most Free-Trade Agreements Deserve Applause
- Some Links
- Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution University on How the Dismal Science Got Its Name
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pseudo-Science
- Quotation of the Day…
- Barter Exchanges are Mutually Beneficial
- Unjust Exploitation is Everywhere
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bryan Caplan on “Statism for Freedom”
- I Received No Payment to Write this Post (The Horror!)
- We Pay the Monopoly Prices to Ourselves, and Earn the Monopoly Profits Ourselves
- Quotation of the Day…
- Frederic Bastiat Symposium at Liberty Matters
- Quotation of the Day…
- A July 4th Thought
- Truth About Lies
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Twisted View of Capitalism
- Bryan Caplan Helps Me to Persuade My Friends Concerned About Immigrants’ Possible Effects on America’s Political Culture
- Quotation of the Day…
- Great Moments in EconTalk
- It Was 50 Years Ago Today…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Maximum Misunderstanding of the Minimum Wage
June 2013
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Wisdom from a Good Aussie Friend
- Quotation of the Day…
- Immigration Again
- Quotation of the Day…
- Costs Are Not Benefits
- Questions for Krugman and Kuehn
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Open Letter to Michael Stumo
- Quotation of the Day…
- McCloskey at Cato on The Treasured Bourgeoisie
- The Humility of Masonomics
- The Full Flower of Free Trade
- Quotation of the Day…
- You Know…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Immigration: The Practice of the Principle
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Alex Tabarrok on Immigration
- Coming to Terms with Rhetoric
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Beware the Pretense of Science
- Perverse Inconsistency
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Questions for the “I Have Nothing to Hide” Crowd
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- George Will on ‘Trust Us’
- Smells Really Bad
- Arnold Kling on Government Snooping
- Quotation of the Day…
- Selgin on Bad and Good Deflation
- Some Snowden Links
- An Open Letter to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Hot Tip from Gene Epstein!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Free Online Edition of George Selgin’s Theory of Free Banking
- Economic Freedom and Freedom Generally are Inseparable
- Money Is Not Wealth
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Cheap Shots
- A Scientific Finding of Economic Science
- You’re Simply Stunning in that Alexander Hamilton Dress! And those Abraham Lincoln Pumps! Wow!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Fair Trade
- When 2 X 2 > 4
- Quotation of the Day…
- Capital-based Macroeconomics
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Higgs Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Mid-Twentieth-Century America IV
- Quotation of the Day…
- ERISA Bleg
- Only the Likes of St. Francis of Assisi Should Escape Congressional Action
- Quotation of the Day…
May 2013
- Hamming It Up
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Slavery – Even Temporary – Is An Offense Against Humanity
- Quotation of the Day…
- Mid-Twentieth-Century America III
- Some Links
- Mandate Us to Utopia
- Count on It: Power Will Be Abused
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Seen is Often Unseen
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Immigration and the Welfare State
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Mid-Twenthieth-Century America: II
- Mid-20th-Century America: Not an Ideal Type
- The Curse of Aggregation Strikes Again
- Quotation of the Day…
- Thoughts on the Too-Easy Use of the Word “Greed”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Rand Paul on Yesterday’s Apple Show-Hearing in Congress
- Some Links
- Amnesty Intranational
- Quotation of the Day…
- Abuse of Reasons
- Epstein on the Constitution
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Conditioned Response?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Thomas Sowell Interviewed by Uncommon Knowledge’s Peter Robinson
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Façade Capitalism Means Façade Freedom
- Means Are Not Ends
- Quotation of the Day…
- My advice for graduates
- EconTalk update
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bread, Circuses, and Condoms
- Quotation of the Day…
- Statistical Constructs Are Not People
- Jumping the Queue Is Bad When the Object of the Queuers’ Desire is Genuinely Scarce – Not Necessarily When the Queue Is Itself Artificially Constructed
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jason Richwine’s Dismissal from Heritage
- Public Choice Outreach Seminar, 2013
- Milton Friedman, Immigration, and the ‘War on Drugs’
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Monty Python Policy-Making
- The Art of Economics
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Regulation through Competition
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Macroeconomic Policy As If There’s No Tomorrow
- Quotation of the Day…
- Monkeying Around with Redistribution
- Bernstein on Communication and Power
- Some Links
- Bad week for psychology
- Video from the minimum wage debate
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Do Not Care About Income or Wealth Inequality
- Maximally Mysterious
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Michael Cox on Middle-Class Progress
- Quotation of the Day…
- Dan Klein’s and Lotta Stern’s Virtues Project
- An Open Letter to a U.S. Trade Official
- Quotation of the Day…
- Constitutional Fun (Or, Two Can Play this Game)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Helping entrepreneurs in Nepal
April 2013
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jason Brennan on Michael Sandel on Queuing
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Logical Conclusion of Groupthink
- Quotation of the Day…
- Napolitano and Will on Liberty and Security
- Quotation of the Day…
- Muscling In
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- What About the Simple System of Natural Liberty?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Dispolitics of Scale
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- TANSTAAFLOA
- Richard Epstein on Mandated Paid Sick Leave
- Seasoned Wisdom
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Boston, You’re My Home
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Maximum Illogic
- Quotation of the Day…
- Munger on Exchange
- Sachs on the economy and the future
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’s Who?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Satchmo talks economics
- Spending the Money of People Not Yet Born
- Quotation of the Day…
- Lauding Commercial Culture
- Full audio of minimum wage debate
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Econ 101 and the Minimum Wage
- Maybe the best book on the crisis
- Laissez Faire
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to Rep. John Dingell
- Bedtime stories for macroeconomists
- We Won’t Be Out-Cronyied!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Does the minimum wage reduce employment?
- Should we abolish the minimum wage?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Sheldon Richman on Spontaneous Order
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- But Who Am I to Argue with Ralph Kramden?
- Quotation of the Day…
March 2013
- Some Links
- Sautet on Cyprus and the European Union
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Quick Thought
- Let’s Start a Union of Concerned Economists
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Sick Economics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Congress Exporting More Economic Ignorance
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Smart Processes
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Minimum and Average Wages
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The dignity of John Taylor
- End the Idiotic, Futile, Costly, Hypocritical, Corrupting, Degrading, Lethal, and Immoral ‘War on Drugs’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society
- Should we abolish the minimum wage?
- Should we have let the banks fail in 2008
- Quotation of the Day…
- Gasbags in Congress
- Some Links
- Hayek on the latest from Cyprus
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Sequesterphobia
- Conservative Disconnect II
- Quotation of the Day…
- Conservative Disconnect
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Everything you need to know about macro
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bryan Caplan on Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Minimum Consistency, Again
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Shikha Dalmia on the Dystopian Monstrosity of a Conservative Welfare State
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Ed Leamer on the recession
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Production before consumption
- Minimum Effect
- Some Sequestration Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- My testimony at the Senate Budget Committee
- Minimum Consistency
- Sequester Question for Minimum-Wage Proponents
- A Podcast on Armen Alchian
- Quotation of the Day…
- The real-life Jerry Maguire
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Australia’s minimum wage
- Minimum Wisdom
- Vacuuming Up the Facts
- Quotation of the Day…
- Mru
February 2013
- The bossless company
- Know your limits
- Minimum Questions about Minimum-Wage Legislation
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Too-Easy Partiality of General-Equilibrium Assertions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Waging War Against the Minimum Wage
- Import-Led Growth
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum Grade
- Some More Minimum-Wage Links
- A Response to MinMan and Other Critics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum Break Time
- Some Minimum-Wage Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Intrade and Public Choice
- The French Way
- The Wages of Logic
- Minimum-Wage as a Tax
- Quotation of the Day…
- Dramatic spending cuts
- Commenting at the Cafe
- Why so many Americans pay no income tax
- Changes coming to education
- David Henderson (and also Fred McChesney) on Armen Alchian
- Quotation of the Day…
- Aspirin
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Two Alchian Links
- Yet More Minimum-Wage Questions
- Bellante on Monopsony
- Imagining a world of minimum wages
- Armen A. Alchian (1914-2013)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Minimum-Wage Links
- Chope
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Reflections on the Economics of the Minimum-Wage
- Minimum Question for Mr. Obama
- Some Minimum-Wage Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Sowell on Card & Krueger
- Minimum-Wage, Maximum Analysis
- Quotation of the Day…
- Where Are My Data?!
- Thoughts on the Minimum-Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who Is Them?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Recalling the Disco Decade
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXXIV
- The Illusion of Understanding and Control
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ralph Raico on the Industrial Revolution
- Quotation of the Day…
- Seidman on the Constitution
- Megan McArdle Reveals How Truthful Statistics Can Lie
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Great Stagnation?
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXXIII
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXXII
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- At a Minimum, Please Answer these Questions
- Some Links
- Econ 101
- Quotation of the Day…
- Higgs on Ackerman on Constitutional ‘Transformations’
- Look at the data (and make sure it’s the right data). Then put it in perspective.
- Constitutional Progress
- Quotation of the Day…
January 2013
- Bring on the savings! (But no hurry)
- Blegging Your Help on Sources of Data on Consumer-Goods Prices in Europe
- Private Enforcement of Law
- Women Liberated by Capitalism
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Bird Ballet
- You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
- Mark Steckbeck on Standards of Living
- Quotation of the Day…
- And It has a Link to a Beautiful Photo of a San Francisco Landmark
- Bipedal Mammals
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXXI
- The economics that’s in demand
- Quotation of the Day…
- Is the Quality-Adjusted Cost of Health-Care Higher Today than in 1980?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Preliminary Notes on the Thesis of Economic Growth for the Middle-Class
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Measuring Growth
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation
- Two More Remembrances of Jim Buchanan
- America’s Middle-Class: Doing Better than Ever
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some things are getting better–a lot better
- Arnold Kling on Tying Government’s Hands to Balance its Budget
- Signaling, Education, and Culture
- Bastiat Tag
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not Chopped Liver
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXX
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Scientific Than Thou
- Some Links
- Tagged: A Smithian
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cochrane on the Debt Ceiling
- Luddism 2.0
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jim Buchanan: Deficit Dove. Not
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Adam Smith on the Myth of ‘We Owe It to Ourselves’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- One More Time, Part II
- One More Time, Part I
- No comment
- Thinking of Jim Buchanan
- In Debt to Jim Buchanan
- Quotation of the Day…
- Remembrances of Jim Buchanan
- Jim Buchanan: An Economist’s Economist
- James M. Buchanan
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Greedy Hand
- On Income Inequality
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Jerven on African development data
- Quotations of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Stark Difference
- Quotation of the Day…
- Should gun owners be required to buy liability insurance?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cataloging Our Progress from 1975: Using Sears.com’s Selection on New Year’s Day 2013
- Quotation of the Day…