2015
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2015 1,028
December 2015
- Minimum Wages, Income Distribution, and Value Judgments
- Quotation of the Day…
- Liberalize the Organ-Donor Market
- Even Janitors Can Save For Their Retirements
- Some Minimum-Wage Scenarios
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- War: Good for Nothing
- Quotation of the Day…
- What if…
- “Our Children Are Yours, O Great State”
- Reckless With Other People’s Livelihoods
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Difficult to Reconcile This Fact With Assertions of Widespread Monopsony Power in American Labor Markets
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- George Will on Matt Ridley – and Both on the “Foolish ‘Theism’ of Government Enthusiasts”
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Economist and the Man-in-the-Street
- Whose Oil Is It?
- It’s a Wrap: The Reported Stagnation of Middle-Class America Is Mythical
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bryan Caplan On the Many Myths Busted by a Good Course in Labor Economics
- Who Said It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Middle-Class Rising
- Quotation of the Day…
- Another Note on the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- % of Time Automatable
- Quick Question
- Quotation of the Day…
- Robots Are Nothing New
- Quotation of the Day…
- Neumark Hits the Mark on the Minimum Wage
- Mostly Exaggerated
- Correction of the Historical Record
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Wish That Valuable Assets Were Indeed So Easy to Conjure!
- Daffy Elitism
- Quotation of the Day…
- For My Many Friends From, and In, New Jersey
- The Role of Market Forces in Protecting Against Phishing
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bill Easterly on the Greatest Tyranny People in the World Face: That of “Experts”
- Some Conspiracies are Real. They’re Even Headline News
- A Baseless Charge
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on Phishing for Phools
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Phoolishly Against Phreedom of Speech
- Some Links
- Do People, Or Do People Not, Respond to Welfare Payments?
- Quotation of the Day…
- I’m Sorry, I Just Had to Vent
- Quotation of the Day…
- Higgsian Wisdom
- Quotation of the Day…
- As Good A Summary of Politics As You’ll Find Anywhere…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Joining the Envy Gang Is Dangerous Business
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ian Fletcher Strikes Out Again: He’s Batting 0000%
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Worst Environmental Calamity Is The Absence of Capitalism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Please Help Support – and Strengthen – GMU Economics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
November 2015
- Pay the Piper – And Let Only the Piper Call the Tune!
- Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some of the Many Economic Myths Slain by Alchian & Allen
- Some Links
- Economic Fallacies Are Zombies
- Quotation of the Day…
- Groupthink
- An Inoculant Against Simple-Minded Myths
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Timely Note On Supply and Demand Analysis
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Econ 101 Is All About Revealing Reality’s Complexities
- Most of What You Learn in Econ 101 is Right
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Douglass North (1920-2015)
- I Can Imagine Almost Anything
- Some Links
- Water Still Does Not Run Uphill
- Quotation of the Day…
- Arguments that Water Might Run Uphill Are Endless
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Anonymous First-Rate Economist On the Economics of the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Extortion in Palo Alto
- Quotation of the Day…
- Time to See this Reality
- Ce Qu’on Voit et Ce Qu’on Ne Voit Pas
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Sometimes There Are No Good Options
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Air With Ben Powell
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Dartmouth Remarks On the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- An App For the Economically Ignorant
- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Growth and Pollution Abatement
- Quotation of the Day…
- Heard This Morning On NPR
- Some Links
- A New Series: “If Only H.L. Mencken Were Still Alive….”
- A Sufficient Reason to Oppose the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Carson Did Not ‘Flub’ His Recent Answer to a Question About the Minimum Wage
- Ben Carson Comes Out Against Raising the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Comes This Query…
- Neither Alternative Is Attractive
- I’ll Wager That El Presidente Maduro Never Has to Suffer These Consequences of His Policies
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Knowing About Economics and Knowing Economics
- Really? Really?? You Equate Shuttering Ex-Im With Smoot-Hawley?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tim Worstall on ‘Efficiency Wages’
- The Poor Wages of ‘Efficiency-Wage’ Theory
- The Curtains, Stage Props, and Rave Reviews from the Cast and Crew Do Not Make this Production Worthwhile
- Quotation of the Day…
- Obama’s Overtime “Protections” are No Such Thing
- Worstall on Conly
- Quotation of the Day…
- She’s the Anti-Julian Simon
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Walter Williams Discusses the Minimum Wage
- What If There Were No Market Prices?
- Mortally Bad Analysis
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Obama Administration’s Inconsistent Labor Economics
- Quotation of the Day..
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Economists Should Be More Like Biologists
- Quotation of the Day…
- Youthful Wisdom In Opposition to Cronyism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
October 2015
- This Gravestone Was Created Before the Financial Crisis…
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Grieve For My Discipline
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Is Not Seen
- Some Links
- Sustainable Irony
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Principles of Economic Principles
- On the Principles of Economic Principles
- Quotation of the Day…
- Paul Ryan Opposes Ex-Im
- Some Links
- The Curse of Mercantilist Superstitions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- I Am Unimpressed With Many Members of My Profession
- Mere Possibilities Are Uninteresting Yet Potentially Misleading
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Thoughts on the Minimum-Wage Debate at Dartmouth
- Gene Epstein Responds to Bill Gates
- Quotation of the Day…
- Vernon Smith On The Cruelty of the Minimum Wage
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- About that Anti-Freedom Culture
- Quick Question
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Editor’s Job Was the Easiest
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Welfare Payments Even to People In the Workforce Raise (Not Lower) the Wages of Such Workers
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s Science: This Case for the Minimum Wage Is Mere Superstition
- Mercantilists are Prone to Perform ‘Incantations of Economic Humbug’
- The Economics of a Toddler Combined With the Ethics of a Thug
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Marketists vs. Statists
- Leonard Liggio
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Old Money – Not
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to a Correspondent
- Nixon Is the Norm
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Aggregate Thinking Is Often Scientifically Spurious and Ethically Offensive
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Unleavened
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Unregulated Industry of…
- Richard Epstein to Speak at Mercatus Center Event at GMU
- Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are Pop Entertainers, Not Economists
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Set of Available Options Is Smaller Than Many People Suppose
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Policy Questions Only SEEM To Be Easily Answerable By Examining ‘The Data’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Texas vs. California
- Quotation of the Day…
September 2015
- VERY Bad Analogy
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- He Should Have Taken Econ While At Clemson
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Frankfurt School
- Where Labor Goes
- More On Pope Francis and Capitalism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Marx Was Mistaken About the Power of Capitalists In Markets
- How Realistic is NON-Inclusive Growth?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Discourses On Trade
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Meer vs. Galbraith on the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The Economics of the Vatican
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pope Francis’s Fanciful – and Dangerous – View of Nature
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Responding to Dani Rodrik
- Some Links
- A Voice of Experience On the Question of the Reality of Monopsony Power
- Quotation of the Day…
- Hubris, Not Humility
- Some Links
- I’ll Do As You Suggest If You’ll Do As You Suggest
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Morality of Capitalism
- Difficult to Square This Reality With the Presumption of Monopsony Power
- Some Links
- 2015 Coolidge Prize for Journalism
- I, Chicken Sandwich
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Bad Book On the History of Antitrust
- It’s Always In the Black (Except When It’s In the Red)
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Problem With Greece Summarized in Just Over One Minute
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Note On Minimum-Wage Justifications
- Blind To What Really Matters
- Some Links
- The Morality of Free Markets
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Cronyism Costumed As Compassion
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- For Whom Do I Write?
- The Utter Non-Uniqueness of International Trade
- The Anti-Casino
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Picture IS Worth A Thousand Words (At Least)
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Canned Lie
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who Are the Free-Market’s Winners?
- Quotation of the Day…
- It’s Called “Creative Destruction” for A Good Reason
- A Sunday Morning Fantasy
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Perspective Is Important
- Carolyn Weaver, RIP
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Tale
- Quotation of the Day…
- Another Open Letter to Someone With A Fetish for Force
- Technology Enables Competition to Bloom and Destroy Monopoly
- Ed Stringham to Speak At GMU On His New Book
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
August 2015
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Peter Morici Is An Unreconstructed Mercantilist
- Some Links
- First Day of Class
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ultra-Cheap Talk
- Hurricane Katrina: 10 Years Ago
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Takers
- The Intellectual Inconsistency of Economists Who Support the Phasing-In of Minimum Wages
- Grateful to Not Have Been Priced Out of the Labor Market
- Quotation of the Day…
- Trumponomics is Notonomics
- A Liberty Seminar in Ghana
- Cable Reregulation
- Some Links
- New Digs for GMU Econ
- Quotation of the Day…
- Forced “Charity” Is Force, Not Charity
- Some Links
- The Free Market Is A Process of Scientifically Relevant Experiments
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Uber Economy
- Some Links
- More On H. Clinton, Investment Advisor
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Economic Ignorance On the Minimum Wage
- Buchanan’s “Notes On Hayek”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Friday Thoughts on the Minimum Wage
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Here’s Yet Another Opportunity to Put One’s Money Where One’s Mouth Is
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Another Open Letter to Donald Trump
- Quotation of the Day…
- Maybe Mr. Collins’s Argument Would Be Excusable Had It Been Made Before 1871
- Some Links
- Prosperity Politics
- Quotation of the Day…
- John Mackey on Capitalism and Intellectuals
- A Note On Monopsony Power, Wages, and ‘Wage Discrimination’
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Real Value of the National Minimum Wage In the U.S. Is Nowhere Close to Being Historically Low
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Fictions About Frictions
- Making a List of Privately and Profitably Exploitable ‘Market Failures’
- Acting Entrepreneurially and Acting Academically
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bob Higgs’s New Book
- No Excuse-Making
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Empirical Record Improves
- Ban Bans
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Keynesian Splenetics
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Crude Analysis
- Quotation of the Day…
- Super Market
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Tale of Johnny and Tommy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Losing My Temper
- Some Links
- Serfdom USA
- Why the Disconnect?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- August 6th: A Day That Will Live In Infamy
- Some Links
- McCloskey On Piketty Again
- Quotation of the Day…
- Without Market Imperfections There Would Be No Market Process – And No Economic Progress
- Questions About Market Power
- My 1997 Review of Matt Ridley’s The Origins of Virtue
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Do Not As I Do But As I Command”
- Aeon Skoble on Social Cooperation
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum-Wages’ Maximum Miserable Effects Play Out Over the Long-Run
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Uber vs. Piketty
- Quotation of the Day…
July 2015
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- No Takers Yet
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Make Money On Your Identification of Monopsony Power
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Mencken Understood Politicians
- Why We Should Ignore Academics’ Claims About Monopsony Power: In Summary
- Some Links
- Awful Arrogance
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Real Evidence
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- And the Winner Is….
- Dogs That Don’t Bark Are Powerful Evidence that Nothing Unusual Is Present
- Quotation of the Day…
- Evidence Inconsistent With the Monopsony Theory of Minimum-Wage Legislation
- The Best Profit-Sharing Plan Is Competition
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What’s Ultimately Being Controlled Are People’s Choices
- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Such An Ungenerous Presumption?
- Pooling the Effects Over Time
- Quotation of the Day…
- Forget the MBA!
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Muscle, Intellect, and Technology
- Unfortunately, the Job of the Good Economist Will Never be Destroyed
- Quotation of the Day…
- My Response to Luddism
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Although for Sure the Wealth of All People AS A GROUP Falls
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Evidence of Distortion?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The “Progressives'” Creed
- Another Term for ‘Underpaid Workers’ Is ‘Profit Opportunity’
- Some Links
- Their Business Is to Deceive, Not to Educate
- Quotation of the Day…
- Evidence Before Their Very Eyes
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Objective Journalism?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Greedy for More Profit While Being Stubbornly Indifferent to More Profit
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Hillaritynomics
- Privi-Lege
- Quotation of the Day…
- Reclining on a Friday Evening
- Quotation of the Day…
- Reagan and Bush I – in 1980 – on “Illegal” Immigration
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “It’s endemic in the profession.”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Profession of Plunderers
- “Fair Trade” Is Unfair to Workers In Poor Countries
- History of Puerto Rico Bleg
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Separate School From State
- Quotation of the Day…
- Love Gov
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The NYT Unintentionally Presents Evidence Against the Minimum Wage
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Pierre Desrochers Busts Locavore Myths
- The Amounts of Work Time and Effort Were Not Relevant Factors In that Post
- Applauding Abundant Supplies of Things of Great ‘Total Social Worth’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- ¿Puedes Decir “Desempleo”?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Civil Asset Forfeiture Encore
- Some Links
- A Monument to Mercantilist Superstitions Shuttered!
- Quotation of the Day…
June 2015
- Another Open Letter to A Gentleman Who Is Affiliated With a Group of Evidently Incompetent Business Owners
- There Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Additional Overtime Pay
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Trade Is Trade – Or, Economic Activity Is Economic Activity
- Quotation of the Day…
- Sauce for the Progressive Goose Is Sauce for the Free-Market Gander
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Advantage No More of Legislation
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Special Privileges
- Some King v. Burwell Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- King v. Burwell in Short Compass
- The Myth that ‘Buying Local’ Is Good for the Local Economy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Falsifiability and Consistency
- Economic Science and Predictability
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Krugman is human, just like me
- Some Kelo Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Ultimate Cause of the Financial Meltdown: Government
- Widespread Wealth Has Active Causes – Most Notably, Entrepreneurship
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Mythbusters
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on Burdens
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Exchanging and Relieving Burdens
- Delicious Creative Destruction
- Quotation of the Day…
- Same Burden?
- Soldiers in An All-Volunteer Military Never Bear the Burden of War
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Conscription Is No Good Means of Avoiding War
- Conscription and the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- No Conscription. Ever. Unconditionally.
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Krugman and Other Stuff
- My Son Will Never Be A Conscript
- Prices and the Great Globe-Spanning Chain of Human Cooperation
- The Essential Hayek
- Quotation of the Day…
- Saving Bourgeois Values
- What’s Crass?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yes Indeed: I Have My Priors About the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum-Wage Legislation Does Indeed Reduce Workers’ Freedom
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Freedom As An End In Itself
- Quotation of the Day…
- Prices Are Not Arbitrary
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to Nick Hanauer
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- That the Blind Man Doesn’t See the Tree Doesn’t Mean That the Tree Is Unreal
- Female Viagra
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Indeed, Even a Mouse Has No Chance of Passing Through the Eye of A Needle
- Human Creativity Increases the Economic Size of the World’s Arable Land
- Quotation of the Day…
- George Will’s Short, Witty, and Powerful Commencement Address
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
May 2015
- Even ‘Perfectly’ Designed Minimum-Wage Rates Would Be Harmful
- Quotation of the Day…
- The True Cost
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Nature of the Beast
- Quotation of the Day…
- Be Warned About Trusting Local Governments to Restrict Economic Freedoms
- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Cowardly and Arrogant
- Some Links
- Con Artists
- Quotation of the Day…
- Higher Admission
- Cleaned by Capitalism XXXVII
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Good Economists Ask Questions Such As These
- Quotation of the Day…
- More On the Economically Flawed Argument for Tolerance of Minimum Wages Set Locally
- Swimming in Dangerous Policy Waters
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Quick Question for All Advocates of Minimum Wages
- The Case for Local Price Controls Is Weak
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Competing Hypotheses About L.A.’s Minimum-Wage Hike
- Why Not $15 Per Hour Today?
- Some Links
- A Plan to End Secret Trade Deals
- Quotation of the Day…
- If Buying A Car Were Like Negotiating A Trade Deal
- Quotation of the Day…
- Industrialization’s Staggering Effect on Humans
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tom Palmer on Mises, Liberalism, Economic Calculation, and Other Important People and Matters
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Economic Way of Asking Questions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Reich Doesn’t Understand the Connection Between Wages and Productivity
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Distinguishing Means from Ends
- Quotation of the Day…
- Another Open Letter to Barack Obama
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Questions for Those Who Itch to Diminish Low-Skilled Workers’ Bargaining Power
- Off the Money
- Some Links
- Reich Is Wrong About the Minimum Wage and Employer Choice
- Quotation of the Day…
- More Reich Confusions
- The Patriots and Confirmation Bias
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Money In Politics!
- Rich Lowry Strikes Out When Discussing NYC’s Nail Salons
- Poor Labor Economics From a Former Secretary of Labor
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Reich, the Mandatory Minimum Wage, and Wal-Mart’s Voluntary Wage Hike
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Reich Is Wrong Yet Again On His Minimum-Wage Facts
- On This Mother’s Day…
- A Note On Institutions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Reich Is Repeatedly Wrong
- Quotation of the Day…
- How Scientifically Objective Is Robert Reich?
- On Robert Reich on the Minimum Wage
- Quotation of the Day…
- We’re back
- Perhaps Deliberation Lasting a Minimum of 20 Minutes Is Required
- Mark Perry’s Venns
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
- Un-Impreza-ive Economics
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Pope Should Stick to Theology
- Massacre Day
- Quotation of the Day…
April 2015
- A Response to EconLog Commenter ‘Nick’
- Some Links
- Looking For Friends In All the Wrong Places
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Missing the Point About the Case for Free Trade
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Balance, This Reality Is Easy To Grasp – But It Is Too-Often Missed
- Some Links
- Championing Everyday Americans
- Quotation of the Day…
- Let’s Tax Politicians’ Deceits!
- What Do YOU Do to Help Third-World Workers?
- Theorizing About the Facts: There’s No Escaping Theory
- Quotation of the Day…
- Open Letter to John Oliver
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Costs (Such as Exports) Are Not Benefits
- Some Links
- Witch-Hunts Are Not Reality-Based
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Earth Day Means To Me (And to My Wise Son)
- Alex Epstein on the Enormous Benefits of Fossil Fuels
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ludding the Way
- An Orgy of Innovation
- Some Links
- Fighting the Decline in Economic Freedom
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bold, Persistent Experimentation
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- California Nightmare
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum Logic, Maximum Straw
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ratiocination
- Some Links
- Insipidness Guaranteed
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yes to Fast-Track Authority
- Why Is This Politician Taken Seriously?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth
- Some Links
- Taxing Economic Ignorance
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bob Higgs on the Myth of an Economically Unjustified Gap In the Pay of Men & Women
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- You Didn’t Make Sense With That
- Quotation of the Day…
- Two Minimum-Wage Links
- Let’s Increase America’s Trade Deficit
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Crazy Yet Immortal Economic Myths: Example #1
- Quotation of the Day…
- With A Grain of Salt
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Variable Supply of a Fixed Quantity
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Supply Is Not Exclusively, or Even Mainly, A Physical Phenomenon
- Walter Williams on the Important Role of Profit
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Welfare, Corporate Welfare, and Immigration
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum Sense, Maximum Superstition
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
March 2015
- Profits Are Not Prejudiced
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman on the Real World Effects of Labor Unions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Brackish Economists
- That’s Where the Logic Leads
- Voice, Voting, and Choice
- Quotation of the Day…
- Applause for Fossil Fuels
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on Natural Disasters, Pricing, and Speculation
- Some Economics of ‘Price Gouging’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Free Trade: Are There Really Losers Over Appropriately Considered Spans of Time?
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The “Progressive” Notion Seems To Be…
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Power?
- An Open Letter to Robert Reich
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Reich on the Alleged Horrors of An Economic Cornucopia
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Exports are Great! (Except When They’re Not)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Is This Distinction So Difficult to Grasp?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Two Birds With One Minimum-Wage Stone!
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Tax the Rent-Seekers
- Private Cities
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotations of the Day…
- Apology for Ad
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Hon. Beggar
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Kicking a Dangerous Immortal Horse
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Minimum-Wage Horse That Won’t Die
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Maximumly Misleading on Minimum Wages
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Post of Its Own
- Inspired by Bryan Caplan on Straw-Manning
- Quotation of the Day…
- Massaging Theory
- Freedom Beats “Internet Freedom” and “Net Neutrality”
- Quotation of the Day…
- What Power?
- Free to Exchange
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Homo Politicianus
- Krugman, Labor Unions, and Employment
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Open Letter to a Politician
- Some Links
- Market-Tested Innovation
- Quotation of the Day…
- Paul Krugman and the Foundations of Economic Science
- Quotation of the Day…
- Supply and Demand Analysis Captures Social Forces and Political Power
- A Note On Corporate Rule-Making and Insider Trading
- Stagnant Thinking
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Today, the Price is Righter
- Quotation of the Day…
February 2015
- A Taxing Institution
- Quotation of the Day…
- Edmund Phelps’s “Mass Flourishing”
- Deirdre McCloskey’s Rogge Lecture on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
- Some Links
- Mob Rule
- The Awful System-wide Effects of Price Ceilings
- Quotation of the Day…
- Whose Business?
- Market Power, Multiple Margins, and Competition
- Quotation of the Day…
- David Henderson Applauds Deirdre McCloskey’s Brilliant Review of Piketty
- Smith on Slavery
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Comparing Riches Over Time
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beating A Horse That Should Have Expired Long Ago….
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum Accuracy, Maximum Illogic
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- American Industrial Production: 1919-2015
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Franchise Isn’t THAT Wide!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Russ On Adam Smith’s Life-Changing Philosophy
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Toy Progress
- Why Reject Bank Shots?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Protectionists Are Manipulative
- Data on Cronyism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- In Debt to Buchanan and Wagner
- Quotation of the Day…
- It Was 51 Years Ago Tonight….
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Intellectual Identifies Yet Another Mysteriously Unexploited Profit Opportunity
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Elephant In the Economist
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman Against the So-Called ‘War On Drugs’
- Maximum-Effort Legislation
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Bob Higgs on What Does and Doesn’t Make a Good Economist
- Quotation of the Day…
- David Henderson on the Jevons Fallacy
- The Minimum Wage Ravages Inner-City Chicago
- Bob Higgs On the Recent Past and Future of the American Economy
- Quotation of the Day…
January 2015
- My Review of Jeff Madrick’s ‘Seven Bad Ideas’
- Quotation of the Day…
- Or, Hey, That Reagan Economy Must Have Been Quite Good at ‘Creating’ Jobs!
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- The John Blundell Studentship Initiative
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Quick Note On Inequality and Cronyism
- Who Cares About Income Inequality?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Milton Friedman In Iceland in 1984
- A Point Worth Repeating
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Silly Argument #587,808,539,165
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Where Nudging Leads
- Well, If THAT’S Its Only Ill Effect….
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- If Groceries Were Supplied Like K-12 Education…
- Inefficiency Is Not a Benefit
- Quotation of the Day…
- Yes, Worker Pay Does Reflect Worker Productivity
- Another Open Letter to Pres. Obama
- Quotation of the Day…
- I thought it doesn’t matter what you spend the money on
- A Worthy Distinction
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On Ordinary Americans’ Living Standards
- Maybe This Is What Gives
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Anecdote In Support of Clemens & Wither
- Two Reports in Today’s Washington Post
- Manne and Alchian
- Quotation of the Day…
- Henry Manne (1928-2015)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Applause for Eric Holder
- The (Minimum) Wages of Economic Illiteracy
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Clemens and Wither Summarize Their Empirical Findings on the Minimum Wage
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Adam Smith book panel
- Seeing With Reason
- Quotation of the Day…
- A Richer World
- Speaking in New York City on February 3rd
- Quotation of the Day…
- How Can a Vote that Counts Ever Be Wasted?
- Some Links
- We Are the True Liberals
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quick Note on More Evidence of Evidence
- More Evidence of Evidence
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Evidence of Evidence
- Quotation of the Day…
- To Falsify A Message Is Not to Change Reality
- Reality Is Not Optional, Not Even When Minimum-Wage Proponents Assume Otherwise
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Not Even Minimum Decency
- A Bleg, and My Explanation of the Trading Game (With Implications for the Minimum Wage)
- Quotation of the Day…
- Simply Poor Economic Journalism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Or Maybe the Only Employers With Monopsony Power Are Those Who Employ the Lowest-Skilled Workers
- Some Links
- Mike Munger On the Radio
- Quotation of the Day…
- With Friends Like These….
- It Occurs to Me that…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- He’s Rather Cavalier With Other People’s Well-Being
- Quotation of the Day…