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December 2004

  1. Social Security and Indexing
  2. Prescott, Time Inconsistency, and Social Security
  3. Teacher, teach thyself economics
  4. More on Medicaid
  5. Phelps on the Dollar
  6. Carnival of the Capitalists
  7. Kinsley on Social Security
  8. Or is it Medicaid?
  9. Textbook Omissions
  10. No Entitlements Crisis?
  11. Survey of Regulation
  12. Information and Incentives
  13. The Long Tail
  14. Taxes and Market Time
  15. I Heart Michael Powell
  16. Global Warming
  17. Dollars and Deficits
  18. Adequacy of Personal Savings
  19. Friedman on the Battle of Ideas
  20. More on Privatization
  21. Government Mergers
  22. What is selfishness?
  23. Social Security Privatization
  24. Discovery Procedure in Wireless Technology
  25. Becker-Posner on Drug Patents
  26. Analogy for Government
  27. Politics and Academia
  28. Tax Breaks vs. Subsidies
  29. Housing Bubble?
  30. Progressive Implications of Social Security Privatization
  31. Health Insurance Regulation
  32. Subsidize Health Care to Cut Costs?
  33. Education Outcomes and Spending
  34. History of Markets
  35. Whose Debt is it, Anyway?
  36. Social Security Transition Cost
  37. Social Security Reform
  38. Subsidies Raise Prices
  39. Remembering a Teacher

November 2004

  1. Health Care Disintermediation
  2. Health Care and Moral Values
  3. Flynn Effect
  4. Working Poor
  5. Complex System, Poorly Enforced
  6. Pension Guarantee Hazards
  7. Kotlikoff’s Social Security Plan
  8. Poverty and Social Pressure
  9. Single Tax Rate
  10. Hurricanes and Broken Windows
  11. Tax Reform
  12. Affordable Housing Oxymorons
  13. Explaining Pharmaceutical Regulation
  14. Debating Forced Saving
  15. Prescott on Social Security
  16. Reputation Systems and Brands
  17. Taxes and Social Security
  18. Debating Outsourcing
  19. Debating Social Security
  20. Stadium Obstruction
  21. Exit Polls
  22. Second Term Policies
  23. Growth and Economic Literacy
  24. Social Security Privatization
  25. Disappointing Election Year?

October 2004

  1. Nanotechnology and the Economy
  2. Cost of Health Care Regulation
  3. Economists’ Voice on Fiscal Policy
  4. Social Security Myths
  5. Health Care
  6. Cost of Digital Storage
  7. Rank-order Multiple Choice
  8. Prescott on Tax Cuts
  9. Fama vs. Thaler
  10. Drug Prices
  11. Inelastic Demand for Gasoline
  12. Social Security Arithmetic
  13. Dollar Bubble
  14. Vaccine Shortage
  15. Omniscient Voyeur
  16. Energy Price Outlook
  17. The Budget Debate
  18. Free-Market Health Care?
  19. Oil: Marginal vs. Average Cost
  20. Outsourcing
  21. Kydland and Prescott win Nobel
  22. Tournament Ranking of Colleges
  23. Campaign Season Economics
  24. Exuberance
  25. Nonlinear Thinking
  26. Entrepreneurs and “giving back”
  27. All Holes, No Cheese?
  28. Publication Tournament?
  29. Trade Conference
  30. Revolution in Academic Affairs?
  31. The Need for Savings
  32. Two Thoughts on Economic Education
  33. Nobel Prize Speculation
  34. Forced Savings vs. Social Security
  35. Oil Bubble?

September 2004

  1. Socialism as Primitivism
  2. health care
  3. In Praise of Temperance
  4. In Praise of Failure
  5. Outsourcing Data
  6. Economics of Health Insurance
  7. Economic Illiteracy
  8. Social Security and Real Production
  9. mp3’s and lectures
  10. Escalation of Income
  11. Environmental Economics
  12. Book Pitch
  13. Entitlement Arithmetic
  14. Education and Growth
  15. Ideas and Growth
  16. Wages Move Toward Equilibrium
  17. Outsourcing = Economic Activity
  18. Higher Education Lobby
  19. Squeezed Up
  20. Hayek and the Internet
  21. My Book is Available
  22. The “Cost” of Privatization
  23. Health Care Policy
  24. Where is the Failure?
  25. Town Vs. Gown
  26. Paul Samuelson
  27. Labor Market Puzzle
  28. Blaming Health Care Producers
  29. Outsourcing Muddles
  30. Happiness Research Still Makes Me Unhappy
  31. Third Rail Issues
  32. Fear Factor
  33. Measuring Labor Income
  34. Nobel Laureates speak
  35. Double-Counted Jobs?
  36. Policy Specifics
  37. Productivity vs. Distribution
  38. Should Pacey Teach Economics?
  39. Middle Class Squeezed Up
  40. Elephants in the Big Tent

August 2004

  1. Evaluating Health Care Systems
  2. Data Request: Health Care Spending
  3. Overspending and Obesity
  4. The Budget Issue
  5. Telephone Fees
  6. Disintermediation and Outsourcing
  7. Business and Health Care Costs
  8. Political Behavior
  9. Key Operating Ratio
  10. Drug Companies and Rent-Seeking
  11. Are Workers Getting Good Jobs?
  12. Health and Taxes
  13. Neuroeconomics
  14. Mass Transit and Happiness
  15. European Productivity
  16. Pharma a Public Utility?
  17. Economic Policy Analysis
  18. Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference
  19. All’s Fair in Politics
  20. I Wish Tiebout Could See This
  21. The Political Economy of Wishful Thinking
  22. Privatizing Keynes
  23. Time to Dump “Dumping”?
  24. The Economics of Wage Labor
  25. Russia’s Hope
  26. Happiness Police
  27. Support for Higher Education
  28. Physician Licensing
  29. Arithmetic and Google’s IPO
  30. Domestic Policy Issues
  31. Two Things
  32. Cuba’s Economy

July 2004

  1. Is Kerry Listening?
  2. The Case for Free Trade
  3. Money and Happiness
  4. Medicare History
  5. Home Building Trends
  6. Incumbents and Government
  7. Barbell Labor Market?
  8. Economics of Higher Education Subsidies
  9. Against Paternalism
  10. Technology Innovation vs. Government
  11. Health Care
  12. Rent and Rent-Seeking
  13. Interest Rate Debate
  14. An Energy Internet?
  15. Improved Standard of Living
  16. The Success of Failure
  17. The Wisdom of Crowds?
  18. Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe
  19. More on the Productivity Story
  20. Regulate Mutual Funds?
  21. The Productivity Story, Continued
  22. Fogel Vs. Wonks
  23. Economic Attribution Error

June 2004

  1. Housing Bubble?
  2. Sustainability
  3. The Productivity Story
  4. Asbestos Litigation Costs
  5. SEC Taxes Mutual Funds?
  6. The Minimum Wage, Con’t
  7. Export-led growth?
  8. The Minimum Wage
  9. The Balance of Saving
  10. Housing P/E’s
  11. Moore’s Law for Storage
  12. Economists’ Assumptions
  13. The Economics of Immortality
  14. Tax Cuts for the Rich
  15. From Galbraith to Spitzer
  16. Rational Decisions and Pharmaceutical Regulation
  17. Future of Education
  18. U.S. vs. Europe
  19. Medicare Proposal
  20. Run Out of Oil?
  21. Inappropriate Annuities
  22. Lucas on Growth
  23. Reagan’s Economics in Context
  24. Ronald Reagan’s Economics
  25. What Determines Exchange Rates?
  26. Milton Friedman on health, education
  27. Health Insurance Idea
  28. Gas Tax Debate

May 2004

  1. IQ and Living Standards
  2. Innovation, Business Behavior, and Education
  3. Bond Market Vigilantes
  4. Jobs, Progress, and Displacement
  5. Oil Reserves and Backwardation
  6. Wiretapping Costs and Benefits
  7. Demographics
  8. Bush on Trial
  9. Who is Rich?
  10. Backwardation
  11. Gasoline Hysteria
  12. A Glimmer of Hope on Oil
  13. Compulsory Cultural Exchange?
  14. Hard America, Soft America
  15. Education Reform
  16. The Future of Oil
  17. Why is Health Care Inefficient?
  18. Progress and Displacement
  19. Caldwell, Hayek, and Math
  20. “It’s Their Fault”
  21. Copyright Law and Utilitarianism
  22. The Science Race
  23. Athletes and Entertainers
  24. Hostility Toward Economics

April 2004

  1. Uncovered Interest Parity
  2. Social Security a Diamond in the Rough?
  3. Indian Labor Productivity
  4. Gender Differences
  5. Health Care Productivity
  6. Drug Tax
  7. Welfare State Free Lunch?
  8. Public Goods, Private Goods, and Paternalism
  9. Trade and the WTO
  10. Defending Social Security
  11. Asymmetric Price Adjustment
  12. Textbook Pricing
  13. Presidents and Jobs
  14. Outsourcing Winners and Losers
  15. Housing Bubble, Again
  16. Market for Body Organs?
  17. Social Security and Demographics
  18. Bundling II
  19. Jobs Come Marching
  20. Affective Forecasting Errors
  21. Oil Econ, Once More

March 2004

  1. Oil Econ Follow-up
  2. Health Care Follow-Up
  3. Leviathan
  4. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  5. Costs of Entrepreneurship
  6. Bundling
  7. Teacher Pay and Quality
  8. Consumer-driven Health Care
  9. Against Budget Surpluses
  10. Where Can America Compete?
  11. Employment Forecasting, continued
  12. Grocery Workers Strike?
  13. Water Usage
  14. The Health Care Market
  15. The Free Trade Case
  16. House Prices
  17. The Two Employment Surveys
  18. Economists, Bridge, and National Savings
  19. The Budget Menu
  20. Employment Forecasting
  21. eBay, Fun, and Social Waste
  22. Red Sox Technologies
  23. The Two Employment Surveys, Again
  24. Why Are Saving Rates Declining?
  25. Jobs and Tax Cuts
  26. Measuring Employment
  27. Recession Dating
  28. Economists as Heretics
  29. Keynesians and Monetarists

February 2004

  1. The Budget Outlook
  2. Academic Lock-in
  3. The European Outlook
  4. Greenspan’s Concerns
  5. Extreme Free Trade
  6. Block that Free Lunch
  7. Benedict Arnold Legislators
  8. Saving Jobs from Outsourcing
  9. Where are the Jobs?
  10. The High-Cost Producer
  11. Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley
  12. Social Security Reform
  13. Unstable Information Economy
  14. Academic Self-Selection
  15. Finite Labor Supply in India
  16. What Explains Inequality?
  17. Debating Rubinomics
  18. Service Sector Productivity
  19. Statistical Jargon
  20. Social SecurityAnalysis
  21. Who Bears the Tax Burden?
  22. Immigrant Labor Market Issues
  23. Income Redistribution Proposals
  24. Environmentalist Forecasting Model
  25. Collective vs. Individual Benefits
  26. Cost-of-Living Arbitrage, II
  27. Nanotechnology and the Great Race
  28. Regulation and Industry Structure
  29. Cost-of-Living Arbitrage

January 2004

  1. Intellectual Property
  2. Who Should Own Iraq’s Oil?
  3. Outsourcing
  4. Finance and Macroeconomics
  5. European Scientists and America
  6. Ethics as Infrastructure
  7. Poverty and Income Distribution
  8. Fine-tuning Immigration
  9. Social Security Privatization
  10. Government vs. Private Debt
  11. Roll Over, Ricardo
  12. Bond Market
  13. Economics and Evolution
  14. Lighthouses
  15. The Morality of the Market
  16. Surveys and Happiness
  17. Ricardo’s Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks
  18. Immigration Reform
  19. Policy in a Fog
  20. Budget Woes
  21. Reminder about Comments
  22. Income Mobility
  23. More Choice, Less Satisfaction?
  24. Getting Ricardo Wrong
  25. The Employment Situation
  26. Phelps on the Great Displacement
  27. A Case for Paternalism?
  28. Tax Simplification
  29. Phelps on Dynamism
  30. The 1990’s Bubble Economy
  31. Long-term Growth Forecasts

2003 321

December 2003

  1. Sowell on Math and Economics
  2. Foreign Aid and Growth
  3. Economics and Moral Intuition
  4. Economic Education
  5. Case for Globalization
  6. Taxes and Health Insurance
  7. Prescribing Capitalism
  8. Long Run Stock Returns
  9. Math and Economics
  10. Predicting Drug Price Controls
  11. Coase and Dean
  12. Water Privatization, Continued
  13. Smooting the Weasels
  14. Water as a Private Good
  15. A Nation of Entrepreneurs?
  16. State Universities vs. Vouchers
  17. Growth Inhibitors in Europe
  18. Labor Market Surveys Diverge
  19. A Bad Month for Libertarians?
  20. Economics of Nanotechnology
  21. Meeting the Enemy
  22. Social Security Reform
  23. Immigration Policy

November 2003

  1. A Re-importation Parable
  2. India and the U.S.
  3. Labor Market Issues
  4. Regulation and Housing Cost
  5. Financial Crime
  6. AARP rent-seeking
  7. Trade Policy
  8. Drug Price Controls
  9. New Energy Legislation
  10. Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy
  11. Prosecute Rent-Seekers?
  12. Prairie Population Problems
  13. Government and Research
  14. Price Discrimination and Profitability
  15. Austrian Economics
  16. Knife-edge Macroeconomics
  17. Peak-load Pricing
  18. Economics of Water
  19. Jobs and Creative Destruction
  20. admin issues
  21. Economic Freedom and Divergence
  22. Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery
  23. Buffet’s Trade Proposal
  24. St. Petersburg Paradox
  25. Free Trade in Tech Labor

October 2003

  1. Consumption Tax?
  2. Credit Bush for Recovery?
  3. Comments on Science and Social Security
  4. Science vs. Social Security
  5. Wal-Mart controversy
  6. Aging Europe
  7. Hayekians vs. Stiglitzians
  8. Electric Liberation
  9. Over-worked or Over-taxed?
  10. Health Care Spending, Continued
  11. Economists Too Linear?
  12. Japanese Banks
  13. Health Care Spending
  14. Our Loss, China’s Non-gain
  15. Online Trade Barriers
  16. Stock Options as Tax Deferral
  17. U.S. as Debtor
  18. Economics vs. Populism
  19. Comment of the Week, 10-15-03
  20. Lessons of the Great Depression
  21. Kotlikoff on Social Security
  22. Adverse Results for School Vouchers
  23. Doubts about Planning
  24. Basic Oil Economics
  25. The Great Depression
  26. Training Economic Man
  27. Economic Arguments
  28. Health Insurance Reform
  29. Various Articles

September 2003

  1. Libertarian Redistribution
  2. Meltzer on the Labor Market
  3. Stock Options
  4. California Reality
  5. Comment of the Week, 2003-09-24
  6. Executive Compensation
  7. The Case for Price Gouging
  8. Environment-friendly Farming?
  9. Productivity and Unemployment
  10. Minimum Wage and CEO Pay
  11. The Two Labor Market Surveys
  12. Comment of the Week, 2003-09-17
  13. Friedman Interview
  14. College Tuition
  15. The Budget Debate
  16. Intellectual Property
  17. Economics of Reconstruction
  18. Comment of the Week, 2003-09-11
  19. Cancun Trade Talks
  20. Grading the President in Macro
  21. Mortgage Depreciation
  22. Politics vs. Economics, II
  23. Two-Handed on Vouchers
  24. Labor Market Puzzle
  25. Politics vs. Economics
  26. Economics of Content
  27. Imputed Income
  28. The Civility Plea
  29. Structural or Cyclical Unemployment?
  30. Comment of the Week, 2003-09-03
  31. Manufacturing Crisis?
  32. Government Incentives

August 2003

  1. High-Beta Houses
  2. Budget Analysis
  3. Academia vs. Reality
  4. Demand Too Elastic?
  5. Canadian Health Care
  6. Comment of the Week, 2003-08-27
  7. Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?
  8. Did the New Deal Fail?
  9. Auction Toxic Waste?
  10. Australia’s Economic Miracle
  11. Libertarian Manifesto
  12. Comment of the Week, 2003-08-20
  13. Economics of Outsourcing
  14. Electricity Economics
  15. Robots and Comparative Advantage
  16. Consensus Macroeconomics?
  17. Benefits of Health Care Spending
  18. Labor Supply and Demand
  19. Co-operation Hormone?
  20. Trade Deficit a Concern?
  21. Productivity and Labor Utilization
  22. Vacation until August 17
  23. Is the Recession Over?
  24. Information Goods and Income Distribution
  25. Comment of the Week, 2003-08-06
  26. Health Care Reform
  27. Steven Levitt
  28. China Menace?

July 2003

  1. The Long-term Budget Outlook
  2. Terrorism Futures
  3. Comment of the Week, 2003-07-30
  4. Price Discrimination and Information
  5. Safe Investing
  6. Hydrogen Cars
  7. Vouchers and Education
  8. Hayek and Tobin
  9. High income and Wealth
  10. Comment of the Week, 2003-07-24
  11. Cost Disease and Class War
  12. Trade Controversies
  13. The $44 trillion shortfall
  14. Income over Time
  15. Boskin Scenario, Revisited
  16. Outsourcing
  17. Comment of the Week, 2003-07-18
  18. Come Back July 20
  19. Social Security Privatization Debated
  20. Health Care Economics
  21. Limits to Growth?
  22. Are Small Investors Irrational?
  23. Comment of the Week, 2003-07-02
  24. Europe’s Constitution
  25. Many Interest Rates

June 2003

  1. Perspectives on Social Security
  2. Income Distribution Stories
  3. Comment of the Week, 2003-06-25
  4. Housing’s P/E Ratio
  5. Quack Remedy
  6. Oil Import Tariff?
  7. IRA’s to the Rescue?
  8. Bubbles and Macroeconomics
  9. Comment of the Week, 2003-06-18
  10. Common Sense Macroeconomics
  11. Bond Market Bubble?
  12. Ethanol Mandate
  13. Drug Price Discrimination?
  14. Resisting Efficient Markets
  15. Comment of the Week, 2003-06-12
  16. Social Security Privatization
  17. Germany
  18. Protesting Globalization
  19. Oil Econ 101
  20. Health Care Madness
  21. Comment of the Week, 2003-06-04
  22. The Challenge to Cut Spending
  23. Academic Salaries
  24. The Poor Get Richer
  25. Wesbury on Tax Cuts
  26. Economic Attribution Error

May 2003

  1. California Energy Crisis Redux?
  2. Liquidity Trap, II
  3. China, India and Deflation
  4. History of Option Pricing
  5. Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?
  6. Comment of the Week, 2003-05-28
  7. Anti-Consumer Regulation
  8. Paris in the Springtime
  9. “Concentrated Poverty” Declines
  10. The Academic Job Market
  11. Three P’s of Growth
  12. Government Performance Effectiveness
  13. Institutional Survival
  14. Regulatory Tariffs Vs. Quotas
  15. Government Overgrowth, II
  16. Economic Policy Diversity
  17. Growth and Demographics
  18. Temporary Dividend Tax Cut?
  19. Comment of the Week, 2003-05-16
  20. Economics of Obesity
  21. Surveys Vs. Revealed Preference, III
  22. Should Britain Join the Euro?
  23. 21st Century Trade Barriers
  24. Government Overgrowth
  25. Sowell on Health Care
  26. Deflation-fighting and Depreciation
  27. California Energy Regulation
  28. Liquidity Trapped?
  29. Comment of the Week, 2003-05-07
  30. Nanotech Research Funding
  31. Rethinking Keynes
  32. Social Security Tax Cut?
  33. Capitalism as a Benevolent System

April 2003

  1. Comment of the Week, 2003-04-30
  2. Stock Market Regulation
  3. Regulatory Pollution
  4. The Budget Debate, IX
  5. Spend Less on Education?
  6. Job-Creation Arithmetic, II
  7. Savings, Capital Deployment, and Growth
  8. Trading with Weasels
  9. Basic Supply and Demand
  10. Comment of the Week, 2003-04-23
  11. Optimum Currency Areas
  12. Job-Creation Arithmetic
  13. Cost Disease
  14. Leftist Austrian Economics
  15. Fishy Economics
  16. Elastic Economy
  17. More Tax Day Thoughts
  18. Tax Day Thoughts
  19. Economics of Hydrogen, II
  20. Sports Stadiums
  21. Measuring Tax Progressivity
  22. Agricultural Trade Barriers
  23. Reconstructing Iraq
  24. Comment of the Week, 04-09-03
  25. Lessig on Copyright
  26. Defending Imperfect Markets
  27. Internet Bubble and Growth
  28. Surveys Vs. Revealed Preference, II
  29. Comment of the Week, 2003-04-02
  30. The Budget Debate, VIII

March 2003

  1. Economics of Hydrogen
  2. Economics and its Enemies
  3. Can you Beat the Market?
  4. War Economics
  5. Comments of the Week, 2003-03-26
  6. Organ Transplant Market?
  7. Teacher Pay
  8. About EconLog / Econlib
  9. The Budget Debate, VII
  10. The Budget Debate, VI
  11. Peak Load Pricing and Mental Transaction Costs
  12. Comments of the Week, 2003-03-19
  13. Surveys Vs. Revealed Preference
  14. Protesting Economic Education
  15. Impact of Dividend Tax Reform
  16. Employees as Owners
  17. The Deficit Argument, V
  18. Public Transit and Public Choice
  19. Comment of the Week, 2003-03-13
  20. Anti-anti-economics
  21. Economic vs. Non-economic Savings Incentives
  22. Growth and Anti-Americanism
  23. Israel’s Public Sector
  24. World Population Outlook
  25. Supply-side Dissatisfaction, II
  26. Trade War?
  27. Central Bank Timidity
  28. Comment of the Week, 2003-03-06
  29. Feldstein for Fiscal Stimulus
  30. The Language Barrier, II
  31. Economics of Obesity
  32. Inefficient Market?

February 2003

  1. Supply-side Dissatisfaction
  2. Comment of the Week 2003-02-27
  3. Economics for Environmentalists
  4. The Airline Union Game
  5. Milton Friedman on Social Security
  6. Moore’s Law
  7. FCC Policy Issues
  8. Is Copyright Necessary?
  9. Economics of Hydrogen
  10. Stock Prices and Scandals
  11. Comment of the Week
  12. The Risk Premium
  13. Consumption Taxation
  14. Congestion Tax Works
  15. Risk Spreads Widen
  16. Romance or Signalling Game?
  17. The Deficit Argument, IV
  18. Growth in Flour
  19. Future Technology
  20. The Budget Debate
  21. Migratory Lucky Duckies
  22. Bush Administration Embraces New Growth Theory
  23. The Language Barrier
  24. The Deficit Argument, III
  25. The Deficit Argument, II
  26. The Deficit Argument
  27. Japan Needs Revolution?
  28. Tax Reform Timidity
  29. Synthetic Fuels Program
  30. Income Vs. Happiness

January 2003

  1. The Internet and Productivity
  2. Growth and Displacement
  3. Rent Control’s Sad History
  4. Lurching toward Utopia?
  5. The Case for Tax Cuts
  6. U.S. Best–or Worst?
  7. The Economics of Web Logs
  8. The Case for Teaching Economics

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