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December 2007

  1. My Vacation Reading
  2. The Szaszian Gestalt Shift: An Illustration
  3. Political Long Tail, Revisited
  4. Who Are the Climate Scientists?
  5. New Working Papers of Interest
  6. Certainty and Uncertainty
  7. Power and Plenty
  8. Does Comparative Advantage Stand in the Way of Perpetual Peace?
  9. Laika: Best Dog Story Ever Told?
  10. Growth Wisdom from Charles Kenny
  11. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 27
  12. A Non-Pacifist Syllogism
  13. The Old-Fashioned Personality
  14. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 26
  15. Ron Paul: My Two Cents
  16. Premium Medicine: Proton Therapy
  17. A Russian Defends Rent-Seeking
  18. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 24
  19. The Singapore That Might Have Been… And the Cuba That Should Have Been
  20. What do You Expect?
  21. Bread-and-Peace Forecasts: A Vindication of Voter Rationality?
  22. What Could President Paul Actually Do?
  23. The Myth of the Rational Voter: You’ve Read the Book, Now Wear the Shirt!
  24. My Global Warming Question
  25. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 21
  26. Paternomics: Levitt’s Parenting vs. Mine
  27. Why Not Make Politics a Real Popularity Contest?
  28. High School Graduation Rates
  29. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 20
  30. More Hawkish than Mankiw
  31. Hayekian Linux
  32. Biofuels Sense and Nonsense
  33. What Nick is Reading
  34. Erikson, Althaus, and Why I’m Grateful to be in Econ
  35. The State of the Oil Market
  36. Ambiguity and Disagreement
  37. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 19
  38. Best Book of 2007
  39. Why Do Serial Killers Vastly Outnumber Vigilantes?
  40. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 18
  41. Localized GDP
  42. Against Moneyball Medicine
  43. The Climate Skeptic
  44. Dexter and Dostoyevsky
  45. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 17
  46. Mr. Efficient Markets
  47. A Corporate State?
  48. California is another country
  49. “No Blood for Oil” – or “No Oil for Blood”?
  50. How Much Revenue Could the U.S. Raise by Taxing Negative Externalities?
  51. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 14
  52. Gladwell on IQ: My Chance to Answer Two Plausible But Over-rated Arguments
  53. Are You Tired
  54. Those Silly French
  55. How Much AA at TJ?
  56. Taste for Variety
  57. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 13
  58. Men of Respect
  59. Efficient Markets vs. Mortgage Leverage
  60. A Pacifist Syllogism
  61. Efficient Markets Theory
  62. Behavioral Philosophy?
  63. Orszag gives my talk
  64. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 12
  65. My Defense of Experts Against the Leading Expert
  66. Global Warming and CO2
  67. Subprime Daily Update, Dec. 11
  68. Faster Human Evolution
  69. Why My Sales Spiked
  70. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 10
  71. Popular Dictators: Who Could Pass the Democratic Test?
  72. Race and IQ Pushback
  73. Late to the Party
  74. Popular Putin’s Persecutions: What’s the Point?
  75. Tolstoy on Disagreement
  76. Leveraged to the Eyeballs
  77. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 7
  78. The Posnerian View of Human Nature
  79. Is Tax Evasion a Good Investment?
  80. My Ideal Foil?
  81. The Best Econ Books of 2007
  82. Subprime Daily Briefing, Dec. 6
  83. Pushback on my Skepticism
  84. Questions for Arnold
  85. Standards of Proof
  86. Arnold’s Standards of Science: Does Anything Measure Up?
  87. The Subprime Mess, Daily Briefing, Dec. 5, 2007
  88. Climate Skeptic Movie
  89. Roberts’ Rule of Ridicule
  90. Eliezer on the Ur-Mistake
  91. Tolstoy on the Economics of Education
  92. Random Thoughts on the Subprime Mess
  93. Predicting the Error Term
  94. Attack Me at the Public Choice Meetings
  95. Basic Political Economy
  96. Robin’s “Rant”
  97. Bioethics and Life Extension
  98. Why Is There a Glass Ceiling for Straight Shooters?
  99. Libertarians, Take Your Pick: U.S. or Singapore?

November 2007

  1. Did I Miss My Decade?
  2. Solar power–when should it scale?
  3. Six Months of Intellectual Anthropology
  4. Political Science
  5. Pragmatic Health Care Reform
  6. Senator X’s Amazing Letter to Me
  7. Creative Class Warfare
  8. Did MAD Work – Or Did We Just Get Lucky?
  9. Gintis vs. Redistribution
  10. Comments on the Possible Swindle
  11. Common Genius
  12. Is This a Swindle?
  13. Two Rothbardian Reductios
  14. Shiller is bold?
  15. Why Did So Many Libertarians Support the War?
  16. Pick a Topic: What Should a Cowen-Hanson Debate Be About?
  17. A Fertile Criticism of Happiness Research?
  18. Voting, Vote-Selling, and Externalities
  19. Am I a heterodox Keynesian?
  20. Freddie Mac–victim, villain, or savior?
  21. If You’d Listened to Me, You’d Be Happy About the Falling Dollar
  22. The Iceberg Groweth
  23. Kindle-nomics
  24. I Like Ike
  25. Mentioning IQ and race
  26. Blogging When I Should Have Been Betting
  27. Academic Corruption Index?
  28. Sigmund Freud Meets Jack Bauer
  29. Health Care Safety
  30. Open Economy Macro
  31. Selection Bias
  32. $1 for the Hands of Victory?
  33. 5 Miles of Economic Illiteracy
  34. Not Groupthink
  35. Julian Simon Moment of the Day
  36. Asian Development Bank Says I’m Right About China
  37. Comparative Health Care
  38. Tolstoy, the Clarkian
  39. More on IQ
  40. Opportunism
  41. Online Seminar
  42. ESPNomics
  43. Is Gender a Big Deal?
  44. Ongoing Escalation of Income
  45. Free Economic Advice for Joe Matt?
  46. Jonathan Cohn Needs Masonomics
  47. Selling Self-Control: Will It Take Off?
  48. Neuro-Platitudinous
  49. Rojas Bleg
  50. The Engineering Mindset
  51. The Topic du jour
  52. Video Victory for Vouchers
  53. Tim Harford’s Next Book
  54. Caplanians in the Ivy League?
  55. Solow on Gregory Clark
  56. Switch to Switchgrass?
  57. Home Prices and Rents
  58. Discrimination in Academia: Lessons Beyond the Ivory Tower?
  59. What Philosophy Needs: A Strong Dose of Hanson
  60. Doctor-Patient Conversations
  61. Poor Vs. Ultra-Poor
  62. Wages and Education
  63. Experimental Game Theory at HeroCon
  64. Mankiw Scores One
  65. Watson on Summers: From Strange to Baffling
  66. Flynn on IQ and Education
  67. Kling and Mankiw on Health Care
  68. What Are Philosophers Experts At?
  69. Economics vs. Philosophy: What’s Scarce, and How It’s Rationed
  70. Make Democracy Work for Once: Vote EconTalk
  71. MIT Guys
  72. Reading Instruction
  73. Valley Guys
  74. Leave a Comment, Larry
  75. Easy Essay Money

October 2007

  1. Where I’ll Be… If I Really Exist
  2. The Rojas Effect
  3. Another One of My Health Care Debate Peeves
  4. Race, Marriage, and Poverty
  5. How to Debate Happiness
  6. Gregory Clark, Aubrey de Grey, and Warren Buffett
  7. The Personal is Political
  8. Good News, Bad News
  9. More Passengers on the Titanic
  10. IQ, Race, and History
  11. Expressing Economic Ideas
  12. Just Plain Good: From Black Power to Black Studies by Fabio Rojas
  13. Me Versus the Economic Consensus
  14. Do as Dan Does, Not as He Says
  15. Maggie Mahar vs. Arnold Kling
  16. Random Things to Read
  17. What Nordhaus Said in 2002
  18. It Wasn’t Nurture – Trust Me!
  19. Piling On
  20. Masonomics Bloggers
  21. Econometric Confirmation Bias
  22. Dan Klein Dissects The Myth of the Rational Voter
  23. Mortgage Fraud
  24. Is Chinese Growth Credible?
  25. Classic Economics
  26. Mason Blogger Bleg
  27. Can Becker Save the Chicago School?
  28. Why Are Women Doing So Well in the Labor Market?
  29. Fortune Favors the Bold; Markets Favor the Meek
  30. You Might Be An Economist If You Laugh At These Jokes
  31. Did Literalism Save the World?
  32. Kahneman
  33. A Quibble with Tyler
  34. Losing to Dani Rodrik
  35. Global Warming: The Experts Speak
  36. Rodrik on Blogging and Lemons
  37. Single-Payer: Klein vs. Kling
  38. Make-Work Bias of the Macabre
  39. The Common Sense of Defense Cuts
  40. The Inequality Fuss
  41. Villainy Amok
  42. Doctors’ Statistical Ignorance
  43. Masonomics
  44. Lecture on Mechanism Design
  45. Survey Availability Bias
  46. What Would a Hedonistic Economy Look Like?
  47. Two Metaphors for Government
  48. Clark gives Greif Grief
  49. A Theory of Financial Intermediation
  50. Nobel Prize in Abstraction
  51. Villains, Victims, and Heroes
  52. The Worlds Oldest Algorithm?
  53. Mankiw’s Pithiest… Post… Ever.
  54. Where Nationalism Meets Socialism
  55. Copyright, China, and Anti-Foreign Bias
  56. Senator McCain on Health Care
  57. From Tabarrok Town to Caplan Land: Summers Moves in the Right Direction
  58. Tim Kane’s New Blog
  59. Free Disposal
  60. Doug Campbell’s Five-Page History of Public Choice
  61. Overtreated
  62. Roberts Rules
  63. Odyssey Years
  64. The Nonprofit Boom
  65. Why is Africa Still Under-developed?
  66. Crime Fiction versus Crime Fact
  67. The Cultural Relativism of Columbus Apologists
  68. Becker vs. Caplan
  69. Malthusian Myopia
  70. Mandatory Health Insurance?
  71. The Golddigger’s Dilemma
  72. My Contigency Plan
  73. Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
  74. What Racism Is
  75. Surowiecki’s Levy and Peart’s Mistake
  76. Bon Mot
  77. More on Journalists
  78. Economic Policy, Energy and Otherwise
  79. Tyler Gets Shocking
  80. Prisoners’ Dilemma and The Unmentionable
  81. Acemoglu on Growth
  82. Today’s Prize Winner for Overcoming Pessimistic Bias Goes To…
  83. “Fiscal Responsibility First”?
  84. Median Voter to Self: Keep Up the Good Work!
  85. Carbon Footprints and Central Planning
  86. Scott Adams on the Economic Way of Thinking
  87. Process Innovation
  88. GMU Economics

September 2007

  1. Justin Wolfers on Divorce
  2. Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith, and Gregory Clark
  3. What I Learned About Journalists This Summer
  4. Journalists and Five-year Olds
  5. Market Power Corrupts
  6. Economic Growth: Can You Give an Answer a Five-Year-Old Could Understand?
  7. Bryan’s Cover Story in Reason
  8. Free Online Textbook
  9. Reply to Clark
  10. Clark Replies
  11. Institutions and American economic performance
  12. Arnold on Clark
  13. Clark, Malthus, and the Time Frame
  14. Hindsight Bias
  15. Malthus on Stilts: Clark Misinterpets the Malthusian Model
  16. Reader Survey–keep responding
  17. Trade and the National Good
  18. The Flight from Intelligence, or That Which Must Not Be Named
  19. Reader Survey
  20. Ph. D Curriculum in Economics
  21. A Farewell to Alms: Overview of My Critique
  22. Happiness Research at a High School Reunion
  23. Unemployment
  24. Why No Oil Shock Effect?
  25. Rodrik’s Question
  26. Where Haidt Falls Short
  27. Confusion About Greenspan
  28. Your PC Experience
  29. The Haidt Report
  30. I’ll Back Down on PC
  31. PC and Availability Bias
  32. Is Firing the President of Harvard Overblown?
  33. Ending Aging
  34. Is P.C. Persecution Overblown?
  35. Proposals for Health Care Stasis
  36. Disorder at the Border
  37. Does the Public Suffer from Anti-Government Bias?
  38. Pigou Club Excludes Politicians
  39. Against Teaching Basic Economic Principles
  40. Fogel Compares Health Systems
  41. Thoughtful Stuff from Steven Pinker
  42. Economics vs. Computer Science
  43. A Signaling Model of Consumer Behavior
  44. Order and Disorder
  45. The Wittman-Caplan Debate
  46. Thoughts on September 13
  47. What American Poverty Debates Look Like to Haitians
  48. Doctors as Oracles
  49. How Contrarian is the Hansonian View of Medicine?
  50. The Messiness of Economic Analysis
  51. Cultural Contradictions of LIbertarianism?
  52. Moral Psychology
  53. From Autos to Health Care
  54. Thoughts on September 11
  55. My Bias About Bias
  56. Tyler Cowen Interview
  57. Robin Hanson Unbound
  58. Bait-and-Switch: The Myth and the Reformulation
  59. Villains, Victims, and Economics
  60. A Difficult Book
  61. Another Reason To Doubt Infant Mortality Data
  62. Should Steven White Brand Himself a “Right-Wing Ideologue”?
  63. Talk About Perverse Incentives
  64. An Important Point Concerning Mortgage Bailouts
  65. Order, Disorder, and License Requirements
  66. Morality is No Smokescreen
  67. Key Labor Market Indicator
  68. Best Comment Thread Ever
  69. Morning Reading and Reactions
  70. What I’m Reading
  71. Guilty as Charged
  72. Judge This Magazine By Its Cover
  73. My Mortgage Plan, Continued
  74. Two Stories of House Prices
  75. Order and Disorder
  76. Learn Social Science at the Grocery Checkout
  77. Understanding Gender
  78. Public Opinion About the Future of Science: A Glimmer of Hope
  79. Why Don’t Hispanics Beg in America? Reflections from Venezuela
  80. How Much Cash Is In Your Wallet? Why?
  81. Morning Reading
  82. An Answer For Arnold
  83. James Hamilton at a Fed Conference
  84. A Question for Bryan

August 2007

  1. I Will Live to Be 87
  2. The Sociology of RPGs: A Case Study in Cultural Growth
  3. The Kling Plan for Mortgage Forbearance
  4. “Inessential Weirdness”: Nothing Is More Essential
  5. Please, Doctor, Treat Me Like a Statistic!
  6. DeLong is no Slouch
  7. Uncertainty and Bias
  8. Interview with Gregory Clark
  9. Fun History Fact of the Day
  10. Gov is not Great: How Democratic Fundamentalism Poisons Everything
  11. Time to Panic?
  12. Freeman Dyson on Global Warming
  13. Is Economic Growth Genetic?
  14. Walter Block Reviews The Myth of the Rational Voter
  15. Overcoming Squemishness
  16. For Introductory Economics
  17. Feminism and Just Price Theory
  18. “The Jobs Americans Won’t Do”: The Fallacy and the Reformulation
  19. What’s Worth Overcoming?
  20. Survey Pre-Test: Who In Government Has Influence Over What?
  21. Fed Attribution Error
  22. Gas Taxes and Foreign Policy
  23. Why Don’t Hispanics Beg in America?
  24. Rosen and Responsibility
  25. Viscusi Speaks
  26. Robin Hanson Video
  27. What’s New at GMU Econ
  28. More Futurism
  29. Cowen, Clark, and Malthus
  30. Turmoil in Financial Markets
  31. Back to School Edition
  32. What Professors Want
  33. What I’ve Been Reading Lately
  34. When the Facts Don’t Change, I Change My Mind
  35. Viscusi on Risk Analysis of Terrorism: A Strange Agnosticism
  36. A Sociologist Gamer on the Sociology of Gaming
  37. Futurism
  38. Weingast on Econtalk
  39. Moral and Mental Development
  40. Mortgages, Securities, and Bailouts
  41. Misunderstood
  42. Taking “Looking on the Bright Side” Too Far
  43. The Malthusian Zombie
  44. Would a Truth-Seeker Ask?
  45. Why GenCon Should Be Tax Deductible
  46. Tabarrok Corrects Rodrik (and a Lot of Textbooks)
  47. The Bayes Who Wasn’t There
  48. If That Was Their Answer, What Was the Question?
  49. Democratic Candidates on the Price of Gas: I’m Not Making This Up!
  50. Foreword to Bryan’s Book
  51. Hypotheticals in Presidential Debates: A Pathetic Aversion
  52. Foreign Policy vs. Domestic Policy in the Debates: Dumb and Dumber
  53. Anarchy, the State, and Utopia
  54. Facebook Generation
  55. He’s Not an Economist
  56. Quizzes
  57. Demonology in America: Reflections on the Primary Debate Transcripts
  58. Economics Education for High School Students
  59. Various Links
  60. Reality and Health Care Spending
  61. Taxes and the Two-Income Trap
  62. Are They All Orphans?
  63. How Would the World Change If Everyone Shared Your Factual Beliefs?
  64. The Best Place to Learn Economics
  65. “Win-Win,” as Filtered Through Make-Work Bias
  66. Dying in Vain
  67. Universal Coverage? I say Ma-a-a-a-ah
  68. Farewell to Alms Watch
  69. Around our Library
  70. You Call This Atomism?
  71. Current Event Hooks
  72. A Specter of Common Sense
  73. Another Energy Futures Market?
  74. Climate Models
  75. Schools of Thought
  76. Works in Practice, Just Not in Theory?
  77. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Vegan Lunch
  78. Hide this from Robin Hanson
  79. Does It Matter If We’re “Reality-Based”?
  80. Woodheads and Spam
  81. Ken Rogoff and a Health Care Fallacy
  82. Climate Preferences: Seek Life, Seek Heat
  83. Nominal Rigidities and the Law of One Price Break Down
  84. Dubner Dodged a Bullet
  85. Cowenian Advice: The Best and the Worst
  86. Economic Elitism Thought Experiment
  87. Numbers to Ponder
  88. Discover Tyler Cowen
  89. Housing Market Uncertainties
  90. Tyler on Trusting Experts
  91. Leveraging Agreement
  92. We Need an Anti-Congress
  93. The High-Tech Solution to Voter Irrationality
  94. Name Russ’s Book!
  95. Thoma Takes on Robert J. Samuelson
  96. Physician Pay
  97. China-Bashing

July 2007

  1. Opera versus the NFL
  2. The Selfish Reason to Have More Kids: The Book?
  3. Aging Rockers vs. the Long Tail
  4. Cheers for a Two-Tier Society
  5. High School Curriculum
  6. Reliability of Survey Data
  7. Discover Your Inner Literalist
  8. Who to Trust?
  9. Conventional Reflections
  10. A Book is Just a Very Long Text Message
  11. Which Economists to Trust?
  12. Taxes and Economics
  13. Singularity Watch
  14. Free Market or Artificial Market?
  15. Do Sports Franchises Make Money?
  16. Toward Better Debate
  17. Primary Care Doctors vs. Specialists
  18. Fabulous Wisdom
  19. Medical Paradigm
  20. Andy Stern on Health Care
  21. The Reading Class
  22. Doctors and Waiting Times
  23. The Angst of Economics?
  24. Battlestar Libertopia
  25. Who Are the High Earners?
  26. Superheroic Dominance in U.S. Comics: A Case of Path-Dependence?
  27. Hal Varian on Googlenomics
  28. Movie Review
  29. Tolstoy, Hayek, and David Brooks
  30. Amateur Bank Lending
  31. Mea Culpa: How I Succumbed to Anti-Foreign Bias
  32. I’ll Defend IQ
  33. Mugabenomics
  34. Solar Dreams
  35. The Context and the Leader
  36. Positive Freedom, Negative Freedom, and Wealth
  37. My Kind of Democrat
  38. Compensating Health Care Providers for Outcomes
  39. Painful Budget Cuts in Maryland
  40. Garett the Gracious
  41. Does Scheve and Slaughter’s “New Deal” Pass the Sniff Test?
  42. With Rebuttal from Dan Klein?
  43. Economic Advisers Stoop to the Net
  44. The Default Path for Taxes
  45. The Rational Liberal Minister
  46. I Bet An Austrian
  47. Malevolent Aspirations
  48. Is Jeffrey Friedman Ignorant?
  49. Freakonomics: The T.V. Series
  50. Do Voters’ Biases Bias Policy?
  51. Armstrong Answers
  52. A Creative Conspiracy Theory
  53. Daily Kos Falls Into My Trap
  54. Exit and Voice
  55. The Inequality Issue
  56. Opposition to Single-Payer Health Care
  57. Climate Bet Details
  58. Climate Betting
  59. Hydrocarbon Pessimism: Get Your Story Straight
  60. Polygamy Meets Economy
  61. I Heart Econ
  62. On the Health Care Front
  63. A Business Idea for Education
  64. The Most Aggravating Sentence I’ve Read This Month
  65. How the Rational Voter Assumption Derails Promising Research
  66. A Video for Ec 10
  67. Teachers and Stardom
  68. OPEC and Global Warming
  69. Conceived in Tribalism
  70. The Demographic Transition
  71. Opposition to Immigration: Get Your Story Straight
  72. Who Wants More Kids?, Part II
  73. The Wonder That Is Dog
  74. Where Numbers Come From
  75. The IQ Revolution?
  76. Who Wants More Kids?
  77. Beyond the Pale
  78. Taxes, Independence, and Canada
  79. What is a High-Trust Society?
  80. The Consequences of Pessimistic Bias
  81. Independence Day: Any Reason to Celebrate?
  82. Best Counter-Example to the Median Voter Model I’ve Seen In a Long Time
  83. Patri Friedman on Lott’s Cats
  84. Tyler on Tyson’s
  85. How My Graphic Novel Got Me on C-SPAN
  86. The Waste of Recycling
  87. Ballots Are Better than Bullets
  88. Austan Goolsbee on Health Care
  89. What’s Wrong with REVENGE?

June 2007

  1. Data Mining: The Graphic Novel
  2. Freeman Dyson on Biotech and the Future
  3. Health Care Op-Ed
  4. P. J. O’Rourke has Competition
  5. Low-Trust Society?
  6. Richard Vedder, Sounding Reasonable
  7. Supreme Court Overturns Per Se Rule; “Crazies” Rejoice
  8. Why I Believe in Moderate Global Warming, But Lose No Sleep Over It
  9. Overconfidence
  10. The Ingredients and the Recipes
  11. The Preponderance of the Evidence
  12. Interview with Trent McBride, Including the Political Consequences of Immigration
  13. Why No Electronic Medical Records?
  14. Anti-Finance Bias
  15. A Political Prediction
  16. My Best Interview Ever
  17. Transporting Success
  18. Closet Your Inner Economist?
  19. Tyler May Not Agree With Me On Education, But His Inner Economist Does
  20. Why Do Book-Sellers Discount Popular Books?
  21. Out of Your Opening Book
  22. DeLong on Borjas on Immigration
  23. Boo for Applause
  24. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion
  25. In which Max discovers a tic
  26. Redistribution: Blocking the Revenge of the Nerds?
  27. Greg Mankiw Steps in it Again
  28. Health Care Beliefs and “Sicko”
  29. Adaptive Efficiency
  30. A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004
  31. Thermostats or Muscles?
  32. Jason Furman on Taxes
  33. Who Wants Tyler To Be A Millionaire?
  34. Tyler Cowen Practices Reverse Psychiatry
  35. MRV update
  36. Watch the Platforms, Not the Winner
  37. More on the Height of Bravery
  38. North on Adaptation
  39. My Tax System
  40. Answering Jason Furman
  41. Leaving the Church of Democracy: What’s It Gonna Take?
  42. Internet and Ideology
  43. The Height of Brave Interpretation
  44. Happiness Research in Five Minutes: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
  45. Plenty to Like in Freedomnomics
  46. Against Adolescence
  47. Neuroscience: Don’t Be Intimidated
  48. A Review to Be Envied
  49. Myth of the Rational…
  50. Prescriptions for Democracy
  51. Confucianism vs. Irrational Voters
  52. See One-Man, One-Vote Questioned on National TV
  53. Tyler on Ben
  54. Sense and Nonsense on Tax Reform
  55. Ratio of Violent to Drug Offenders in Jail
  56. Why Do the Poor Commit More Crime?
  57. Demographics and Income Distribution
  58. Hanson Convinces Me that Astrology Is a Science
  59. A Pigou-Hanson Synthesis for Global Warming
  60. Douglass North at Length
  61. Ignoring Cost-Benefit Analysis
  62. The Crux of Health Care Reform
  63. Economics of College and Sports
  64. Has the Internet Helped the Socially Awkward?
  65. Victims of Communism Dedication Tomorrow
  66. We Have a Winner: Hayek as if Orwell Mattered
  67. Richman on How to Break the Catch-22
  68. Bio-Economics in the Courtroom
  69. Who Wants to Marry Someone with Self-Control Issues?
  70. Summers to the Dark Side?
  71. Brad DeLong’s Health Care Prescription
  72. Does Learning Economics Radicalize the Right?
  73. Is Voter Irrationality a Catch-22?
  74. Why Oh Why Can’t Hayek Write Better?
  75. Immigration Quota Management
  76. Mental Health, Poverty, Health Insurance, and Human Capital
  77. The Tug-of-War over Capitalism
  78. Marriage and Caste
  79. I Get Noticed
  80. Depression Economics
  81. All Depression, All the Time
  82. Outstanding Book, Standout Price
  83. Concerns About the Immigration Bill
  84. The Great Depression
  85. Paul Ormerod
  86. Douglass North, On One Foot
  87. Intellectual Arrogance
  88. North on One Foot?
  89. Mindfulness and Mindlessness

May 2007

  1. Let’s Increase Poverty
  2. On heterodox Economics and Innovation
  3. Against MRV
  4. Educated Women Don’t Like Globalization and Trade as Much as Educated Men
  5. Cato Policy Analysis
  6. Income Mobility
  7. Wisdom from Ben Casnocha
  8. Health Care Cynicism
  9. Marriage and Poverty
  10. RNN Reminder
  11. Hanson: What’s Worth Celebrating
  12. Princess Mahalanobis: Blog Baby
  13. Ouroboros?
  14. MRV Update: The New York Times Magazine Review
  15. Reply to Grier on Venezuela
  16. Real Politics Live Update
  17. Bryan Gets Some Pushback
  18. Jerry Muller on Schumpeter
  19. Rizzo vs. Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism
  20. Who’s to Blame for Chavez?
  21. Me on Tomorrow’s Real Politics Live
  22. David Strom Interview
  23. Thoughts on Immigration
  24. Ideological Games of Tug-of-War
  25. “Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?” Flashback
  26. The CBO on income dynamics
  27. Private Law Enforcement
  28. Contrarian Result of the Day
  29. Borjas: What’s His Problem?
  30. Anarchy in the W.T.
  31. Illegal Immigration and Political Culture
  32. North and Weingast
  33. Wealth and Self-Control
  34. Immigration, Libertarianism, and Democracy
  35. Me on the BBC, Part II
  36. Can I Buy My Way Into the Comic Book Industry? Should I?
  37. #552!
  38. A Childish Question About Immigration
  39. I Heart Textbook Authors
  40. Sailer’s Challenge
  41. Economics of Education Over the Virtual Lunchtable
  42. Another Caplan Fan
  43. Shorter Schumpeter
  44. Dogs Not Barking
  45. Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory?
  46. Tyler Cowen on Income Inequality
  47. Investment Bankers, Dentists, and the Inequality Puzzle
  48. Of Bones and Pomeranian Grenadiers
  49. Kevin Lang on Wage Differentials
  50. Romney: A Failure of Imagination
  51. Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom
  52. Libertarians on The Godfather, Part II
  53. A Controversial Health Insurance Metaphor
  54. Scholastics and Pietists
  55. “The Hidden Gender Restriction”; or, the Economics of Waiting to Exhale
  56. Should I Get LASIK?
  57. Health Care and the Consumer
  58. Four Types of Capitalism
  59. Drum Roll Please…
  60. A Sitdown with The Godfather
  61. The Effects of Disability Regs: Perverse, or Just Overpriced?
  62. Glaeser on Coercion and Contracts
  63. Wading Through Schumpeter
  64. Another Herring
  65. Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias
  66. Defending Libertarian Coercion Arguments
  67. Questioning Libertarian Coercion Arguments
  68. Levitt Libertarians?
  69. Overcoming Signaling
  70. The Creation of Ritual Goods
  71. The Theory of Pandering
  72. Education Signaling: Is Entrepreneurship a Solution?
  73. Me at Britannica Blog
  74. Hanson on Hanson
  75. Progressive Taxation is Anti-Education?
  76. Barone on the Kling Scenario
  77. Coercion
  78. Bottom Line Blinder
  79. Giving Surveys a Bad Name: Women’s Day on Mother’s Pay
  80. Jimbo and Me
  81. Estonian Symbolism
  82. Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals
  83. Kling vs. Lang
  84. Investor Returns, Stock Returns, and My Intuition
  85. An Old Prediction May Come True
  86. The World’s Most Honest Politician?
  87. BBC Podcast
  88. I Heart Kevin Lang
  89. I Trust My Statistical Intuition
  90. Climate Change, Capital Mobility, and Futures Markets
  91. Are Over- and Underestimation of the Dangers of Global Warming Equally Likely?
  92. Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption
  93. Me on the BBC
  94. May Day Remembrance
  95. Who Is the Successor to Milton Friedman?
  96. My Book at a Discount
  97. Climate Change–a Range of Views

April 2007

  1. Mental Health Institutions and Prisons
  2. College Admission Statistics
  3. Division of Labor in Graphic Novels
  4. Inteview with Nassim Taleb
  5. Would Ageless People be Libertarian?
  6. Wake Forest Liberty and Society Seminar
  7. Farm Subsidies: The Dirty Truth
  8. Do the Overweight Pull Their Weight?
  9. Page-ing Robin Hanson
  10. Get the Best Education in the World, Absolutely Free!
  11. The Next Book I Won’t Be Writing
  12. How Irrational are Voters?
  13. The Efficient Markets Hypothesis: Act As If It’s True
  14. Most Bizarre Sentence Ever?
  15. Taking Out the Competition
  16. Rodrik and Economic Policy Reform
  17. My Take on Take-Out
  18. Unequal Income Distribution in the World
  19. My Guess on Take-Out
  20. The Missing Take-Out
  21. Non-normal Distributions
  22. Robert Solow on Model-Building
  23. Average vs. Marginal
  24. Government is not going away
  25. David Colander on Graduate Study in Economics
  26. The Economics of Recycling: A Child Could Understand
  27. Tyler Cowen Channels Uwe Reinhardt
  28. Scion of Tax Consumers: My Calhounian Class Autobiography
  29. Write Your Calhounian Class Autobiography
  30. I am Not as Turned On
  31. A Headline Tells the Single-Payer Story
  32. Scrooge and the Junker Fallacy
  33. Public Choice Outreach 2007
  34. Downplaying the Uninsured
  35. I Coulda Been a Contender
  36. Breast Cancer: a Hansonian Tale
  37. Biases in Evaluation Scales
  38. Papers that look interesting
  39. India’s Achilles Heel
  40. Basic Decision Theory
  41. Global Warming vs. the Outside Temperature
  42. Mankiw Defends his Tall Tale
  43. Does Humility Really Walk on Water?
  44. Taxation and Instrumental Variables
  45. Becker on Health Insurance
  46. In Praise of My Competition: Landsburg’s More Sex is Safer Sex
  47. The Nonprofit Sector
  48. Climate Preference Survey Pretest
  49. Myth of the Rational Voter Now Physically Exists
  50. House Prices and Transaction Costs
  51. Paul Graham on the Distribution of Income
  52. Paul Graham on Many Subjects
  53. Paul Graham on Software Patents
  54. Will Wilkinson on Happiness Research
  55. First World Subsidies and Third World Poverty
  56. Subjective Age
  57. Abolish High School?
  58. Robert Fogel Interview
  59. Do Econlog Comments Pass the Rational Expectations Test?
  60. Jason Furman’s Health Care Plan
  61. Flynn on the Flynn Effect
  62. You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie?
  63. Arlo’s Single Payer Plan
  64. Medicare, the U.S., and France
  65. Tax-eaters
  66. Shlaes on the New Deal
  67. The Bourgeoisie and the Clerisy
  68. Ice Cream Demand
  69. Word Inflation: Disappointment Is Not Collapse
  70. Norms and Institutions
  71. What is a Collapse?
  72. Quote of the Day
  73. Education Against Art
  74. Magic Potencies on the Mind as Whole
  75. Has the Wall St. Journal Ever Actually Claimed that Europe is on the “Verge of Collapse”?
  76. What’s a Collapse? What’s a Verge?
  77. Will Europe Collapse?
  78. Milton Friedman’s Isolation
  79. Sobering Projection
  80. Overcoming Popularity
  81. Why Europe Goes Wrong
  82. How Europe Goes Wrong
  83. The Cause of Corruption
  84. Culture of Enterprise Conference
  85. A Single Person With Doubts About the “Gap Year”
  86. Why Not Wrestle With a Pig?
  87. Pigou Club Gains
  88. Vermont and Secession
  89. Helping the Wrong Side
  90. Leviathan Montgomery

March 2007

  1. Libertyman
  2. Technological Determinishm
  3. Offshorable Jobs
  4. Here is Wisdom
  5. Defending Freakonomics
  6. Lawrence Katz on Inequality
  7. Austrian Economics in Business
  8. The Presumption of Elasticity
  9. Poor Choices
  10. State of Fear
  11. Doctors, Pharmaceuticals, and Statisticians
  12. Show Me the Way
  13. Inside the Revolutionary Mind
  14. Patriotic Bias
  15. War, Peace, and the Economic Gap
  16. An Alternative to Single-Payer Health Care
  17. Single-Payer Health Care
  18. How to Increase Support for Free Markets
  19. A Theory of Government
  20. Mission Crisis?
  21. Libertarianism’s Crisis
  22. Tyler’s Crisis Mentality
  23. Education: Practicality vs. Rate of Return
  24. Empiricism and Dogma
  25. Winston on Advertising Regs
  26. Radicals for Capitalism Comes to GMU
  27. Ethiopia Bleg
  28. David Friedman on Taxis and Tipping
  29. Bryan on Education
  30. The Education of Educators
  31. Page One of My Next Book
  32. Borjas, Wages, and Immigration: The Complete Story
  33. Atlas Left a Big Tip
  34. 300 and Freedom
  35. Great Quip
  36. Against Statistics
  37. Viacom vs. Google/YouTube
  38. Taxes and Tipping
  39. Worst Advice to Libertarians Ever?
  40. A Relic of Prohibition
  41. Rent-seeking and CO2 Emissions
  42. Democracy,Education, and Growth
  43. Kidney bleg follow-up
  44. Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians
  45. Regulation-exempt
  46. Subprime Mortgage Loans
  47. Bayesian Analysis of Hypocrisy
  48. Two Cowenian Tenure Claims
  49. Indian Economy Bleg
  50. Tenure and Non-Profits
  51. Puzzled by Brad’s Puzzlement
  52. And Bring on the Mexicans
  53. Ponzi Schemes: What’s the Big Deal?
  54. Cream of the Crop
  55. Are Elites “Anti-Democratic”?
  56. Make That Maternalism
  57. More Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk
  58. The Distribution of Tax Burdens
  59. Privatizing Defense vs. Socializing Medicine
  60. Energy Fallacy
  61. $125 K of premium medicine
  62. Economics in Candyland
  63. Teaching Un-Normal Economics
  64. Alternative Energy and Rent-Seeking
  65. Should There Be Compulsory Attendance for the Balan-Hanson Debate?
  66. The Sociology of the V.R.W.C.
  67. Online Content Bundling
  68. Marriage, Income, Cause, and Effect
  69. Rent-Seeking and Global Warming
  70. Shimer on Acemoglu
  71. Data Molesters
  72. Internet Bubble 2.0

February 2007

  1. Hanson Gets Empirical
  2. What Did Pinochet Know that Cowen Doesn’t?
  3. Finkelstein on Health Insurance
  4. More on Mental Health and Poverty
  5. The Congressional Budget Office on Health Care
  6. “Mental Health,” Moral Character, and Poverty
  7. Public-sector Enron
  8. Mental Health
  9. Tom Palmer on Markets
  10. The Proactionary Principle
  11. The Myth of the Rational Voter, Sowell Edition
  12. Betting on Longevity
  13. Interrupting the Statist Quo
  14. Economic Turbulence
  15. Subjective Relative Measurement
  16. Height and Happiness
  17. The Myth of the Rational Voter, Posner Edition
  18. A Fun Stupid Question
  19. Earth to Educators: People Hate School
  20. Church and State
  21. “Pro-Gamer Groups Oppose Dungeons & Dragons”
  22. Shocked, Shocked!: Opposition to the XM-Sirius Merger
  23. The Median Household
  24. Drug Patents
  25. Where Does the Money Go?
  26. Marriage and Inequality
  27. Simply Wonderful
  28. How Redistribution Really Works
  29. Inflationary Disagreement
  30. Computers, Growth, and Google
  31. Hayek and Fusionism
  32. McFadden on the Prescription Drug Program
  33. Ed Stringham Won Us $25,000!
  34. Social Security and Global Warming
  35. The U.S. as a Health Care Spending Outlier
  36. Interesting Experiment in Education
  37. More on Weitzman and Global Warming
  38. Radicals for Capitalism
  39. Rational Autocrats
  40. The Malthusian Trap
  41. Weitzman on Global Warming
  42. The CEA on Exchange Rates
  43. The CEA on Productivity
  44. Asymmetric Sell-Outs
  45. Five Big Health Care Questions
  46. Phelps on Culture and Dynamism
  47. What Do We Know About Climate Preferences?
  48. The Triumph of Libertarianism: Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism
  49. World GDP and Global Warming
  50. Inequality
  51. Oil is Oil
  52. Milton Friedman on Big Business vs. Freedom
  53. The Most Interesting Blog Comment I’ve Ever Read
  54. Planning vs. Experimentation
  55. Britain’s Bureaucratic State
  56. Have Sexual Harassment Policies Affected the Marriage Market?
  57. Feynman’s Question
  58. Radical Health Care Reform
  59. The New Deal vs. the Kling Deal
  60. Collusion in the Classroom
  61. The New Deal Legacy
  62. Politics, Economics, and Religion
  63. Russell’s Question
  64. Cowen Gets Caplanian
  65. Globalization and Inequality
  66. Fighting the Religious Gender Gap
  67. Kidney Bleg
  68. From Musgrave to Shaviro
  69. Giving Up, Failing Out, and the Return to Education
  70. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anarcho-Capitalism, But Were Afraid to Ask
  71. Furman on Social Security
  72. Failure in an Open-Access Order
  73. Libertarian Principles

January 2007

  1. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
  2. Promising Abstract, Disappointing Paper
  3. Climate Prediction Markets
  4. The Reality of Massachusetts Health Care
  5. The Pig Club
  6. China and India
  7. Sounds Right to Me
  8. Dysculturation?
  9. Milton Friedman Day
  10. Building a Better Idiot
  11. Why Rational Tribalists Should Treat Prisoners Humanely
  12. Hanson’s Mistake: Facts, Values, and Experts
  13. Brad DeLong on Health Care
  14. The Internet, Punditry, and Scholarship
  15. Health Care Conversation Winds Down
  16. The Symbolic Value of Abolishing the Minimum Wage
  17. An Economist or a Public Intellectual?
  18. Multiple Choice
  19. Speaking of Rising Inequality
  20. CEO Pay and Market Signals
  21. Energy Diversification
  22. You Support the Minimum Wage. May I Ask Why?
  23. Economists for a Higher Minimum Wage
  24. Print More Euros
  25. The Bush Health Plan
  26. Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?
  27. Tyrone Posts on Health Care
  28. Euro Bet
  29. Reality-Based Retirement Club
  30. Thoughts on Education
  31. Milton Friedman, Hated Conservative
  32. Measuring Corruption
  33. Colombia’s Natural State?
  34. Capping a Bad Tax Break
  35. The Case Against Tax Breaks
  36. From Keynes to Akerlof: How I would teach Macro
  37. Kevin Drum’s Turkish Bazaar
  38. Public School Choice
  39. The Free-Market Agenda
  40. Calhoun’s Defense of Poland’s Unanimity Rule
  41. Is Economics All About Scarcity?
  42. Global Warming Heretics
  43. Health Care Celebrity Death Match
  44. Name This Club
  45. Tightwadism
  46. Charles Murray on Education
  47. The Philosophy of Introspection
  48. Two Blogs on Business Economics
  49. Guaranteed Health Care
  50. Why Company Health Clinics?
  51. Modern Institutions and Civil Society
  52. A Gem for the World’s Econo-Cartophiles
  53. The Incomparable Hanson
  54. Consensus on Roosevelt Fast Approaching
  55. Premium Medicine, Illustrated
  56. What Incentives Does Statistical Discrimination Give?
  57. Moral and Mental Development
  58. American Mugabe?
  59. Normal Criticism of the New Deal
  60. The Immigration Indicator
  61. Negotiating Drug Prices
  62. What Was the New Deal?
  63. Roosevelt’s Law of Tooth and Claw
  64. The New Deal and the Great Depression
  65. What Kind of Global Warming Skeptic?
  66. And a Child Shall Lead Them
  67. The China Example
  68. WIN and the PBC
  69. Bastiat Lives At Cafe Hayek
  70. Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?
  71. 90 Percent Lack Health Insurance
  72. Applying Douglass North, et al to Iraq and China
  73. Another Reason Why Reading Econ Blogs Is More Fun Than Vacation
  74. Million Dollar Babies: Economic Fact versus Popular Fancy in L.A.
  75. Me in the Economist
  76. AEA Meeting Papers
  77. Telling Bias Stories
  78. The Pigou Club’s Powerful Members
  79. Avoiding Truth
  80. Schooling and Health
  81. Juntas vs. Open Societies
  82. An Idea only an Economist Could Love
  83. Malcolm Gladwell on Enron
  84. A Faustian Bargain: Romania and Bulgaria Join the EU
  85. Optimistic Prognoses

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