2008

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December 2008

1. 31 DecA Weak Case for Free Trade
2. 31 DecTry This on Your Favorite Curmudgeons
3. 31 DecTyrannicide: Now in a Theater Near You
4. 31 DecJenkins on CAFE
5. 31 DecDowngraded into Bankruptcy?
6. 30 DecI Refused to Shake His Hand
7. 30 DecKrugman’s Tin Ear
8. 30 DecAIG, CDS, Suits, and Geeks
9. 29 DecBailout Rage
10. 29 DecInclined to Liberty
11. 28 DecTom Friedman’s Gas Tax
12. 28 DecLarry Summers, Neo-Galbraithian
13. 28 DecMark Thoma on the Risk Premium
14. 26 DecKrugman’s View of Corruption
15. 26 DecGullibility, Madoff, and Fiscal Stimulus
16. 25 DecThe Law: Going from Bad to Worse
17. 24 DecHistory + Comedy = Rothbard
18. 24 DecLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 11
19. 23 DecBanana Republic Economics, Continued
20. 23 DecTheory, Explanation, and Policy
21. 23 DecEducation, Ideology, and Awkward Weddings
22. 23 DecFinally, Some Good Economic News
23. 23 DecWhich Sector Should Lead?
24. 23 DecA Microfinance Skeptic
25. 22 DecHoliday Reading
26. 22 DecSeparating Twins as Economic Illiteracy
27. 22 DecSubsidizing Mortgages
28. 21 DecThe Brains of TSA
29. 21 DecThe Essence of Scrooge
30. 19 DecHealth Care Policy Update
31. 19 DecMadoff as Metaphor
32. 18 DecPatterns of Financial Crises
33. 17 DecTales of Rationing
34. 17 DecDeLong vs. Kling
35. 17 DecLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 10
36. 17 DecWhat’s Wrong with Deleveraging?
37. 17 DecIf You Want Peace, Prepare for Peace
38. 17 DecBest Passage in Years Containing the Words “Absolute Certainty”
39. 16 DecNew Deal Panel, II
40. 16 DecDreaming the Simonian Dream
41. 16 DecI Believe in Quantitative Easing
42. 16 DecThe Parrot Shows Signs of Life
43. 16 DecJaneway on McArdle’s Law
44. 16 DecLongevity and the Work Ethic
45. 16 DecNew Deal Panel
46. 16 DecBruer Update
47. 16 DecDeleveraging
48. 15 DecToday’s Theme: Regime Uncertainty
49. 15 DecBanana Republic Economics
50. 15 DecScary Words from Bernanke
51. 15 DecThe Zorn Effect
52. 15 DecFinancial Panic
53. 14 DecThe Aristocracy of Pull
54. 14 DecWhere Are All the Jerks in My Life?
55. 14 DecJohn Taylor: The Fed Done It
56. 13 DecWhy I Think the Multiplier is Large
57. 12 DecCold Spouses
58. 12 DecThe CDS Debate Continues
59. 11 DecThe Economic Outlook
60. 11 DecWhat’s Wrong With Urban Politics?
61. 11 DecAlternative History
62. 10 DecObama’s Economics: Bad and Good
63. 10 DecSchleicher’s Model of One-Party Democracy
64. 10 DecMortgage Loan Restructuring
65. 10 DecThe Puzzle of One-Party Democracy
66. 10 DecNo Further Questions, Your Honor
67. 10 DecAn AP Stats Lecture
68. 9 DecHearing Post
69. 9 DecMy Planned Oral Remarks
70. 9 DecThe Immortal Dilemma
71. 9 DecNeuroscience and Policy: Bait and Switch
72. 8 DecThe Painted Veil: Best Gender Conflict Scene Ever
73. 8 DecBrad DeLong on the Crisis
74. 8 DecManagement without Responsibility
75. 7 DecSmothers Brothers: The Missing Story
76. 7 DecAll You Ever Needed to Know About Nationalism, but Were Afraid to Ask
77. 7 DecToo Much Deregulation?
78. 7 DecA Rating Agency Example
79. 6 DecLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 9
80. 6 DecHealth Care, Education, Spending, and Outcomes
81. 5 DecCrisis Prophet
82. 5 DecBarney Frank Admits “Mistake”
83. 5 DecPercent Job Loss
84. 5 DecAnother Elite Blog
85. 5 DecThoughts on the Employment Situation
86. 4 DecPonzi Finance
87. 4 DecModerate Muslim Malaysia: What I Saw
88. 3 DecAnother Stake in the Taxpayers’ Heart
89. 3 DecSubprime Lenders Still Soaking Taxpayers
90. 3 DecGreat White Parenthetical
91. 3 DecKane’s Pledge
92. 3 DecShocking News
93. 3 DecThe Financial Crisis in One Sentence
94. 3 DecIn Praise of Tobin’s q
95. 3 DecJohn Baden Joins the Pigou Club
96. 2 DecInflation as Generic Debt Forgiveness
97. 2 DecHow Good is Larry Summers’ Judgment?
98. 2 DecTuesday, December 9 on Capitol Hill
99. 2 DecThe Immigrant in My Basement
100. 2 DecCrowding Out or Crowding In?
101. 2 DecState GovernmentPensions
102. 1 DecOne-paragraph Macro
103. 1 DecAre Government Subsidies to Higher “Education” Justified?
104. 1 DecTwo Bad Ideas
105. 1 DecBest Banking: Animal Analogy Ever
106. 1 DecReturn to Neptune, III: Do Tax Breaks Mimic the Market?
107. 1 DecReturn to Neptune, II: The Corporate Income Tax
108. 1 DecReturn to Neptune, I: Incidence
109. 1 DecI will miss Doris “Tanta” Dungey
110. 1 DecHe is a Pirate King
111. 1 DecOur Response to Selgin

November 2008

1. 30 NovShould We Penalize Liquidity Preference?
2. 29 NovWhy I Was Wrong
3. 29 NovBecker Embraces Unhappiness Research
4. 29 NovSpotted on the Walls of the Singapore Civil Service College Conference Room
5. 28 NovDemocracy in Singapore: How Is One-Party Rule Possible?
6. 27 NovSingapore Gives Thanks
7. 27 NovThanksgiving Thoughts
8. 27 NovEmperor, Clothes, etc.
9. 27 NovLetter of Law, Spirit of Law
10. 26 NovDifferent Forms of Government
11. 26 NovRoderick Long and the Tiny Gnomes from Neptune
12. 26 NovWhen You’re in a Hole, Keep Digging
13. 26 NovSingapore’s Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation?
14. 26 NovNotes on McArdle’s Law
15. 26 NovSingapore: Where Do I Start?
16. 26 NovA Theory of Financial Panic
17. 25 NovBook Forum
18. 25 NovDo I Get a Prize?
19. 25 NovTalking Points on the Obama Economic Team
20. 24 NovRecommended Reading on the Financial Crisis
21. 24 NovSummers on Unemployment Benefits
22. 24 NovHeretical Thoughts
23. 24 NovMy Understanding of TIPS
24. 24 NovDepression Mania
25. 23 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 8
26. 23 NovMorning Commentary
27. 22 NovCowen on Great Depression
28. 21 NovThe Origins of Money
29. 21 NovFight
30. 21 NovMorning Commentary
31. 20 NovIs Zero a Lower Bound for Interest Rates?
32. 20 NovIncentive Ceiling
33. 20 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 7
34. 20 NovDo Financial CEO’s Have Enough Down Side?
35. 20 NovMorning Commentary
36. 19 NovOff the Record
37. 18 NovInsider Trading
38. 18 NovHousing Bubble: Who Knew?
39. 18 NovThoughts on Financial Regulation
40. 17 NovNozick–An Appreciation
41. 17 NovGeorge Selgin on Free Banking
42. 16 NovThe New Football Czar
43. 16 NovMetaphors for Financial Reform
44. 16 NovDepartment of Financial Security
45. 16 NovEasterly on Collier and Correlation
46. 15 NovSeminar in Portland
47. 15 NovWhy Credit Default Swaps?
48. 15 NovDevil Says “Sin Less”
49. 14 NovFrom the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Donors
50. 14 NovFrom the Cutting Room Floor: The Rationality of Juries
51. 14 NovWhat Would Robin Hanson Say?
52. 14 NovTen Minutes, Eleven Questions
53. 14 NovQuoting Will
54. 13 NovFinance is Weird
55. 13 NovThe Lorelai Paradox
56. 13 NovHamilton Scoffs at Deflation and the Liquidity Trap
57. 13 NovHow Are Stocks Like Bonds?
58. 13 NovSize of School Districts
59. 13 NovTruth and Narrative
60. 12 NovWhen Do You Disbelieve a “Change of Heart”?
61. 12 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 6
62. 12 NovCentral Planning in World War II
63. 12 NovHoover Blasts His Opponents
64. 12 Nov“The American Disease”: View from 1989
65. 12 NovYour Defined Benefits = My Obligations?
66. 12 NovBootleggers, Baptists, and Minorities
67. 12 NovMust-Read from Michael Lewis
68. 11 NovFor Future Reference
69. 11 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 5
70. 11 NovHoover Sings His Own Praises
71. 11 NovMr. Caplan Goes to Singapore
72. 11 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 4
73. 11 NovNotes From the Bailout
74. 10 NovWhat If I Were Dr. Doom?
75. 10 NovA Mortgage Fact Pack
76. 10 NovTwilight of the Twilight of the Gods
77. 10 NovDean Baker
78. 10 NovThe State of Conservatism
79. 10 NovKling on Financial Markets
80. 10 NovLectures on Macroeconomics, No. 3
81. 9 NovLectures in Macro, No. 2
82. 8 NovUnpresidential Remarks
83. 8 NovLectures in Macroeconomics, No. 1
84. 8 NovMore on Autos
85. 8 NovThe Economics of the Auto Industry
86. 7 NovWhy the Left Should Not Forgive the American Voter
87. 7 NovA Plea for Facts
88. 7 NovIn Defense of Rationalist Clubs
89. 6 NovTweak Cafe and Save Detroit
90. 6 NovAfter the Election
91. 6 NovReminder–lunch with me on Monday
92. 6 NovPeer Review as a Reputation System
93. 6 NovReword This Question
94. 6 NovCompensation for Immigration
95. 6 NovTrusting Scholarship
96. 5 NovAre Economists As Smart as They Think They Are?
97. 5 NovHoover: The Myth of Free Trade
98. 5 NovWhy I am Paranoid
99. 5 NovEpicurus and Elections
100. 5 NovThe Pump, the Pension, and the Pain
101. 5 NovLife in a Banana Republic
102. 4 NovThe Employee Suppression of Choice Act
103. 4 NovWill Networks Blow It Again?
104. 4 NovThose Wild and Crazy Markets
105. 4 NovVoting
106. 4 NovHow McCain Could Have Won
107. 4 NovInsurance or Mass Delusion?
108. 3 NovAnti-Democratic Thought for the Day
109. 3 NovFractional Reserve Banking from a Modern Finance Perspective
110. 3 NovWatch Walter Block Defend Common Sense, Part 2
111. 3 NovWatch Walter Block Defend Common Sense
112. 3 NovBlock and Me on FRB
113. 3 NovWhat Did Hoover Say, and When Did He Say It? Unraveling Rothbard’s Mysterious Footnote
114. 3 NovAnother Academic Panel on the Crisis
115. 3 NovWas Greenspan’s Monetary Policy Too Loose?
116. 3 NovFuture Scenarios for Economics
117. 1 NovMortgage Securities and Porn Videos
118. 1 NovNumeracy Watch

October 2008

1. 31 OctHealth Care Free Lunch
2. 31 OctBernanke Could Use a Clue
3. 31 OctLeft versus Right: What’s the Big Deal?
4. 31 OctHow to Kill Drug Development
5. 31 OctAnti-Democratic Lunch with Me
6. 31 OctDifficult Facts About Housing
7. 31 OctThe Wonders of Democracy
8. 31 OctMorning Commentary
9. 30 OctHighlights from Hayek
10. 30 OctOf Human Design, but not of Human Intent, Once Again
11. 30 OctPolitics and Identity
12. 30 OctCould a Libertarian Buy Iceland?
13. 30 OctThe Security Rating Game
14. 30 OctThe S Word
15. 30 OctSubtle Wisdom
16. 29 OctIf This is Polite Society, What is Rude Society Like?
17. 29 OctChannel Charles Murray
18. 29 OctStossel Parody
19. 29 OctWhat Next?
20. 29 OctGreenspan, Bernanke, and Bubbles
21. 28 OctThe Camden Bobos Proposal
22. 28 OctA sort-of Blog to Follow
23. 28 OctMcCain vs. Obama
24. 28 OctCorrupt Bargains
25. 28 OctAre We in a Liquidity Trap After All?
26. 28 OctCentral Bankers and History
27. 28 OctBailout Watch
28. 27 OctA Pareto-Optimal Move
29. 26 OctWhere Is the Political Flynn Effect?
30. 26 OctGovernment Conspiracy to Silence Mankiw
31. 26 OctThe Tallest Pygmy
32. 26 OctPrecogs at the Onion
33. 25 OctWhatever Happened to Gridlock?
34. 25 OctRecession During the Cold War: What Was It Like? What’s Wrong With Us Now?
35. 25 OctEnergy Independence
36. 24 OctMy First EconLog Blog
37. 24 OctWe’re Not in a Liquidity Trap
38. 24 OctTabarrok Truth-Tracker
39. 24 OctThe Underground Economist
40. 24 OctNarratives of Knowledge and Arrogance
41. 24 OctEconLog Welcomes Guest Blogger David Henderson
42. 23 OctIn Which Winnie-the-Pooh Uses a Bank
43. 23 OctMark Thoma’s Question
44. 23 OctEconomic Crisis: Lessons from 1932
45. 23 OctThe Call for a Commission
46. 23 OctA Pat on the Back for Macro
47. 22 OctWork-Safe Readings for Macro
48. 22 OctEconomists with Pseudo-Knowledge
49. 21 OctDepartment of “What?”
50. 21 OctThoughts on Banking: An Example
51. 21 OctIs Obama the Next FDR?
52. 21 OctHow to Scare a Kid
53. 21 OctWhat Are Good Financial Institutions?
54. 20 OctThoughts on Banking
55. 20 OctWhy Don’t the Chinese Learn from Singapore?
56. 20 OctTaxation Under Tiebout
57. 20 OctToo Many Bad Banks to Fail?
58. 20 OctClay Shirky Podcast
59. 20 OctThe Original Sinn
60. 20 OctAn Interesting Editorial
61. 19 OctFundamental Causes
62. 19 OctThe CBO Offers Hansonian Charts
63. 18 OctWhy Are Bartenders So Rude?
64. 17 OctBecker on the Pundits that Cried “Wolf!”
65. 16 OctSub-Prime Education
66. 16 OctMussolini and World Equity Markets
67. 16 OctGasoline Delivery: Inside the Black Box
68. 15 OctThe Political Economy of the Bailout
69. 15 OctMisleading Story
70. 14 OctMurray and Me
71. 14 OctKlein Answers the Davos Question
72. 14 OctThe Fantasy Testimony Continues
73. 14 OctMorning Commentary
74. 13 OctBank Telethon
75. 13 OctHoward Stern Gets Hansonian
76. 13 OctQuestions I Would Like to See Asked
77. 13 OctPaul’s Nobel: Nicht Ein Unrecht
78. 13 OctCongratulations, Paul Krugman
79. 13 OctDerivative Exchanges and Systemic Risk
80. 12 OctPanic Puzzle
81. 12 OctScratch Beginnings and the Philosophy of Immigration
82. 12 OctMore Fantasy Testimony
83. 12 OctThe Duelling Guarantee
84. 11 OctOh, No!
85. 11 OctVernon Smith on the Bailout
86. 10 OctChuck’s Great Question
87. 10 OctStock Markets and Social Security
88. 10 OctFutarchy in Camden, Maine
89. 10 OctStossel and Me
90. 10 OctSome Useful Notes on the Crisis
91. 10 OctJoe Stiglitz. Word!
92. 10 OctWhy Charles Murray Should Take Signaling Seriously
93. 9 OctWhy Do People Keep Calling Tyler a Market Fundamentalist?
94. 9 OctBet Update
95. 8 OctSee Blindness
96. 8 OctFinancial Institutions, Again
97. 8 OctFrankly Fundamentalist
98. 8 OctMorning Commentary
99. 7 OctThe Bailout Will Lose Money, and I’m Ready to Bet On It
100. 7 OctChina’s Unsung Pollution Problem
101. 7 OctWho is a Realist?
102. 7 OctWhat Samuelson Said About Inflation in the 70s
103. 7 OctMonetary Institutions
104. 6 OctMy Fantasy Testimony
105. 6 OctAn Education Debate
106. 6 OctFeynman on Suits vs. Geeks
107. 6 OctOther People’s Money
108. 3 OctIs Ignorant Dogmatism Possible? I’m Afraid So.
109. 3 OctThe Lamps Are Going Out
110. 3 OctWhat If the Median Voter Were a Failing Student?
111. 3 OctCredit Default Swaps
112. 3 OctHow Government Used Fannie and Freddie
113. 2 OctThe International Angle
114. 2 OctCochrane and Rogoff on the PBS News Hour
115. 2 OctHenry Waxman’s Hearings
116. 2 OctEconomists’ Bipartisan Bailout Opposition
117. 2 OctConcise Encyclopedia of Economics
118. 2 OctRadio Commentary
119. 2 OctExplaining Inequality
120. 2 OctAnother Deleted Scene from MRV: The Benefits of Overestimating the Dangers of Inflation
121. 2 OctMy Views on the Crisis — A Summary Statement
122. 2 OctNet Worth Certificates
123. 1 OctNew Site Design Oct. 2
124. 1 OctWhat the Bail-Out Crowded Out

September 2008

1. 30 SepSon of Chrysler: The Stealth Bail-Out
2. 29 SepRevolt of the Elites
3. 29 SepMy Current Feelings on the Bailout
4. 29 SepCanadian Caplania
5. 29 SepI Don’t Want to Be a Paul Ehrlich
6. 29 SepPolitical Put-Down of the Year
7. 29 SepGood Issue of JEL
8. 28 SepOpposition to the Bail-Out: Strange Bedfellows
9. 28 SepWhat Warren Buffett Wants
10. 28 SepGetting to Bet
11. 28 SepI’m a Media Star
12. 28 SepTwo Thoughts
13. 28 SepWhat if it’s a Wealth Shock?
14. 27 SepTwo Quick Takes
15. 27 SepMankiw, Rogoff, and Merton
16. 27 SepWhere are the Macro Theorists? Help Me Out
17. 27 SepToo Clever
18. 27 SepHow Progressive Corporatism Works
19. 27 SepThe Profit Opportunity
20. 26 SepHold a Hearing
21. 26 SepThe House Republicans
22. 26 SepWhy Did Financial Markets Like Nixon’s Price Controls?
23. 26 SepNailing Down a Kessler Bet
24. 26 SepBen and Me
25. 26 SepMy Talking Points
26. 26 SepThe Pity Fund
27. 26 SepIt’s Small Business, Stupid
28. 26 SepReduce Bank Capital Requirements
29. 26 SepThe Hold-to-Maturity Nonsense
30. 25 SepMy Attempts to Stop the Stampede
31. 25 SepWill the Paulson Plan Turn a Profit? Let’s Bet
32. 25 SepDodd, Frank apply lipstick to Paulson’s Pig
33. 25 SepHeinlein on Voting: Would You Bet Your Life On It?
34. 25 SepIs the Bail-Out Based on Debt Illusion?
35. 25 SepRidiculous Regs the Median Voter Doesn’t Want
36. 25 SepThe Case Against the Bailout
37. 24 SepAre Credit Markets Locked Up?
38. 24 SepMorning Commentary
39. 24 SepThe Ignorance Behind the Paulson Plan
40. 23 SepMore Experts
41. 23 SepThe Experts Strike Back
42. 23 SepI’m Going to See Singapore for Myself!
43. 23 SepHold-to-Maturity Pricing
44. 23 SepMorning Commentary
45. 23 SepHunger in Maus
46. 23 SepGood Question
47. 23 SepFriend or Foe?
48. 23 SepStrong Leadership
49. 23 SepDelusions on Both Sides
50. 22 SepSupporting Goldin-Katz
51. 22 SepA Simpler Solution
52. 21 SepWhere Are the Demagogues When You Need Them?
53. 21 SepWhy Only Bush Could Bring Socialism to America
54. 21 SepWishful Thinking
55. 21 SepAn Open Letter to Ben Bernanke
56. 20 SepModern Financial Systemic Risk: A Primer
57. 20 SepMorning Reading
58. 19 SepProgressive Corporatism
59. 19 SepChief Financial Plumber
60. 19 SepSEC Demagoguery
61. 19 SepKlein, Clark, and the Liberty Maxim
62. 19 SepMorning Commentary
63. 19 SepWe Don’t Need No, Continued
64. 18 SepRumor: Government to Buy Bad Mortgage Securities
65. 18 SepBarney Frank goes Jacksonian
66. 18 SepInstructive Commentary
67. 18 SepThoughts on Short-Selling
68. 18 SepTwo Interesting Things James Hamilton Told Me
69. 18 SepWhat do Financial Intermediaries Do?
70. 18 SepLeaning Against the Wind
71. 17 SepAfternoon Commentary
72. 17 SepAn Ex Ante Aneurysm
73. 17 SepWho Said It?
74. 17 SepMorning Commentary
75. 16 SepAnother Definition of Democracy
76. 16 SepMore Commentary
77. 16 SepWhat Should Government Guarantee?
78. 16 SepNudging Marriage
79. 16 SepPriceless Anecdote
80. 16 SepQuote of the Day, II and III
81. 16 SepQuote of the Day
82. 16 SepHealth Care: Obama, McCain, Hanson, and Utopia
83. 15 SepHurricane Lehman Update 4:30 EST
84. 15 SepIs FDA Paternalism a Public Good?
85. 15 SepThe Shadow Knows
86. 15 SepHurricane Lehman Update, 10 AM EST
87. 15 SepRuss Roberts and Bob Shiller
88. 15 SepHurricane Lehman Update, 7 AM EST
89. 14 SepMy Most Incorrect Belief
90. 14 SepU.S. States and Five-Factor Personalities
91. 14 SepBryan Takes Over the Treasury
92. 14 SepTwilight of the Idols
93. 14 SepWill Supplies Last?
94. 14 SepToday’s Freddie-Fannie Commentary
95. 13 SepHow I Lost My Macro Religion
96. 13 SepWill Wilkinson’s Intellectual Standards
97. 12 SepNo Price Gouging Here!
98. 12 SepThoughts on Financial Regulation
99. 12 SepThoughts on Housing Policy
100. 12 SepTwo Aphorisms
101. 12 SepThe Financial Invasion Continues
102. 11 SepA Deleted Scene from MRV
103. 11 SepWhen Is It Wrong To Vote?
104. 11 SepIn Praise of Corny Canadian Politicians
105. 11 SepPutin’s Textbooks; or, Why Russians Should Embrace Russophobia
106. 11 SepCan our Government Default?
107. 10 SepWhen Your Uncle sets up a Trust Fund
108. 10 SepWe Need Less
109. 9 SepThe No-Bailout Option
110. 9 SepMankiw, Tyler, and Me
111. 9 SepHow Banking Panics Worked Before the Fed
112. 9 SepWho Fails to Comprehend?
113. 8 SepWhat’s the Legal Basis for the Freddie/Fannie Takeover?
114. 8 SepGive Me Some Fair Questions
115. 8 SepBeating the Dead Horses
116. 8 SepGreg Clark and Jane Jacobs
117. 8 SepCompetitive Government
118. 8 SepTwo Essays on Today’s Youth
119. 8 SepIf I Were Mortgage Czar
120. 7 SepRecession-Proof
121. 7 SepHow Dems and Reps Differ: Against the Conventional Wisdom
122. 7 SepWhat I’m Reading
123. 7 SepFreddie, Fannie: No Exit?
124. 7 SepFive Myths of the Rational Voter
125. 5 SepShiller Interviewed on the Subprime Crisis
126. 5 SepThe Future of U.S. Health Care
127. 4 SepDo I Take Teasing Too Seriously?
128. 4 SepThe Binary Fallacy
129. 4 SepSquandering their Cognitive Surplus
130. 4 SepThe Age of Non-government Public Goods
131. 4 SepWhy Parties Won’t Deliver
132. 3 SepStiglitz the Omniscient
133. 3 SepNonprofit Exit Rate
134. 2 SepTwo Arguments for Democratic Failure that Don’t Convince Me
135. 2 SepPete Leeson Guest Blogging at Freakonomics
136. 1 SepThe Difficult Concept of Evolution

August 2008

1. 31 AugWhat I’ve Been Reading
2. 29 AugA Deeper Look at Economic Bias
3. 29 AugMy Campaign-Season Pledge
4. 28 AugPublic Opinion About Trade in the Muslim World
5. 28 AugMining Mill
6. 28 AugTyler deserts Hayek
7. 27 AugFear of Looking Rich Redux
8. 27 AugPublic Goods, Externalities, and Education
9. 27 AugMy Answers to My Questions for Civil Libertarian Economists
10. 27 AugCharles Murray and the Dilemmas of Education
11. 27 AugNews Reporting and Falsehoods
12. 27 AugThree Quick Takes
13. 26 AugFragmentation of States
14. 26 AugThe Myth of the Rational Voter Now in Paperback
15. 25 AugQuestions for Civil Libertarian Economists
16. 25 AugArnold Kling and Russ Roberts
17. 24 AugAre Refineries Really a Bottleneck?
18. 24 AugThe Macro Tangle
19. 22 AugRaise Your Standards, Control Yourself
20. 22 AugHail Scott Adams
21. 22 AugLiberal Fascism Watch
22. 21 AugRemembering ’68
23. 21 AugIs Arnold Getting Happy?
24. 21 AugDissident Economics and Thought Control
25. 21 AugLogistics and Telecom Deregulation
26. 21 AugImportant Economic Drivers of the Past Thirty Years
27. 20 AugWhen Capitalism Ran Amok
28. 20 AugIn Defense of the Obvious
29. 20 AugThe Soldier and the Capitalist
30. 20 AugMore on the Freddie Mac Risk Management Culture
31. 20 AugImmaculate Estimation
32. 20 AugAsian Economic History
33. 19 AugHow Schooling is Like Garbage Collection
34. 18 AugLet Immigration Be My Hammer
35. 18 AugMore on the Roots of the Bailout
36. 18 AugCharles Murray’s Solution to Signaling
37. 18 AugThe Anti-Hansonian Heuristic
38. 18 AugThe Roots of the Freddie-Fannie Bailout
39. 18 AugGovernment Dependency
40. 17 AugQuestioning a Talking Point
41. 17 AugThe Risk Animal
42. 17 AugSubsidies
43. 16 AugFreddie Mac: My Chapter
44. 15 AugA Guy in the Wrong Profession
45. 15 AugMassachusetts Health Reform Failure
46. 15 AugClimate Change Discussion
47. 13 AugOil Econ 101 Revisited
48. 13 AugYour Planners at Work
49. 13 AugThe Case for Planning
50. 13 AugWe Don’t Need No
51. 12 AugHow Evil is that Sheep?
52. 12 AugKids, Opera, and Local Status
53. 11 AugThere’s No Evidence Like No Evidence
54. 11 AugOptimal Citation in the Google Age
55. 11 AugTom Strong, Compelling Coasean Comics Character
56. 9 AugCreative Capitalism Gets Moldbugian
57. 8 AugThe Right Reaction to Bubbles: Easy Come, Easy Go
58. 8 AugThe Secret of Good Games
59. 8 AugFreddie Mac: The Book
60. 7 AugHummel on Central Banking
61. 7 AugAntitrust for Hong Kong?
62. 6 AugBryan Finally Takes My Recommendation
63. 6 AugFreddie Mac’s Whistleblower
64. 6 AugScott Page Makes Diversity Respectable
65. 6 AugEdison Schools’ Failure
66. 5 AugPolitical Pluralism
67. 5 AugGelman’s Graphical Treat
68. 5 AugPoverty, Math Assessments, and Spending in Maryland
69. 4 AugTwo from Will Wilkinson
70. 4 AugMartin Wolf on Political Economy
71. 4 AugGelman’s Great Book
72. 4 AugTwo Talks on Voter Irrationality
73. 4 AugAre Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise? Hummel’s Answer and My Explanation
74. 4 AugShiller’s Rapid Response to the Subprime Crisis
75. 4 AugAn Economic Disaster?
76. 3 AugThe Best of Solzhenitsyn
77. 2 AugOf Human Design but not of Human Intent
78. 2 AugShould You Lose Sleep Over Global Catastrophic Risks?
79. 1 AugThe Demand for Ectogenesis
80. 1 AugMore Real-time Education Research
81. 1 AugMoral Philosophy
82. 1 AugMy Schooling Chart for Pennsylvania
83. 1 AugA Worthwhile Read on Fannie and Freddie

July 2008

1. 31 JulAgainst Self-Subversion
2. 31 JulThe Nation vs. “The Economists”
3. 31 JulTwo Ideas from Brad Templeton
4. 31 JulGeography and Economic Destiny
5. 31 JulFuzzy Math
6. 31 JulToday’s Tylerisms
7. 31 JulRuining my Day
8. 30 JulSingaporean Sense
9. 30 JulReplying to Thoma on Health Care
10. 30 JulWhat Every Worker Believes
11. 30 JulA Depression-Era Solution on Housing
12. 29 JulI Don’t Understand Mark Thoma
13. 29 JulLetting Students Drop a Question: A Big Mistake
14. 29 JulGoldberger Explains Why My Referee Was Wrong
15. 29 JulCommunications Media and Institutions
16. 28 JulThe Misanthropic Magisterium
17. 28 JulThe End of the World
18. 27 JulMaybe the Variance of Gas Prices Actually Has Increased
19. 27 JulAn Anarcho-Capitalist Tranzy?
20. 27 JulAn Inconvenient Question
21. 25 JulWhat to Learn from the XM-Sirius Merger: The “Friends of the Consumer” Are Your Enemy
22. 25 JulThe Income Heritability Puzzle
23. 25 JulPublic Goods and Pedagogy
24. 25 JulFreddie, Fannie, and the Fragility of Central Planning
25. 25 JulLow Collective Benefits
26. 25 JulBoys, Girls, and Math
27. 24 JulThe McCain-Stiglitz Axis
28. 24 JulThe Lesson of the Housing Bill
29. 24 JulSwitzerland
30. 24 JulPosner Gets Behavioral
31. 24 JulImagine a Referendum on the Housing Bill
32. 23 JulWill I Win My Oil Bet? The Wolfers Factor
33. 23 JulDoes Parental Divorce Cause Offspring Divorce?
34. 23 JulImagining Alternative Futures
35. 23 JulEducation: Is There a Massive Market Failure?
36. 22 JulPublic Choice Outreach Seminar 2008
37. 22 JulA “Why Not?” Moment
38. 22 JulWhy Read The Watchmen?
39. 22 JulHow Many Americans Could Pass the Citizenship Test?
40. 22 JulBusiness Books
41. 22 JulThe Nanny State
42. 22 JulMorning Reading on Political Economy
43. 21 JulThe Social Costs of Getting Out the Vote
44. 21 JulToo Virtual to be True
45. 20 JulDo HSAs Work? Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
46. 20 JulA Hobbesian Thought Experiment
47. 18 JulInconvenient Arithmetic and Engineering
48. 18 JulMore on U.S. Education
49. 18 JulGoldin-Katz Filters into the Mainstream
50. 18 JulReal Health Care Reform
51. 18 JulAre Central Banks the Most Efficient State Enterprise?
52. 18 JulFools and Their Money
53. 18 JulRegulation We Don’t Need
54. 18 JulJeff Frankel on the Faith Trap
55. 17 JulComplete Y: The Last Man Now Available
56. 17 JulDepartment of Yay: The American Baby Boomlet
57. 17 JulSome Denialist Arguments
58. 17 JulEmergency Housing Pork
59. 17 JulExpectations and Oil
60. 16 JulThe Must-Read Economics Book of 2008
61. 16 JulThe Faith Trap
62. 16 JulI Wish Larry Summers Had a Blog
63. 15 JulHappiness, I Still Can’t Get No
64. 15 JulHanushek on Education
65. 15 JulThe Risk Disclosure Problem, Revisited
66. 15 JulReverse Ability Bias
67. 15 JulSacerdote, Feyrer, Kids, and Gender Conflict
68. 15 JulPerspective on Freddie and Fannie
69. 15 JulMacro Without Aggregate Demand
70. 15 JulDisastrous Voting
71. 14 JulTwo Heuristics to Live By When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing
72. 14 JulHumility Reconsidered
73. 14 JulJagdish Bhagwati on Creative Capitalism
74. 14 JulThe Case for Libertarian Friendliness
75. 14 JulGood Post on Fannie, Freddie
76. 14 JulI Need Talking Points on Fannie, Freddie
77. 13 JulBailed it Shall Be
78. 13 JulThe Consensus Economic Platform?
79. 13 JulToo Big to Bail?
80. 12 JulFairness Norms Breaking Down at the Airport – and Good Riddance!
81. 10 JulFannie, Freddie, and Doomsday
82. 10 JulWhat’s Bad for General Motors…
83. 10 JulQuarterback, Shepherd, Project Manager
84. 10 JulThe Goldin-Katz Swindle
85. 9 JulLibertarian Misanthropes
86. 9 JulParticipatory Dictatorship
87. 9 JulMore Rebooting America Quotes
88. 9 JulRebooting America
89. 8 JulThe Center-Wonk Vote
90. 8 JulDavid Friedman on the Myth of the Rational Voter
91. 8 JulDavid Friedman’s Machinery of Freedom
92. 8 JulDavid Friedman on Property Rights
93. 8 JulMarriage and Caste Watch
94. 7 JulSolar Energy Update
95. 7 JulHansonism
96. 7 JulChallenging My Most Absurd Belief
97. 7 JulBehavioral Politics
98. 7 JulKen Rogoff Calls for a Slow-Down
99. 6 JulWhat About Pets?
100. 4 JulWhen Has Independence Been Worth the Price?
101. 4 JulWhat Went Wrong?
102. 3 JulBryan Caplan Politely Declines to Join the Pigou Club
103. 3 JulScary Housing Data
104. 3 JulThe Long-Term Budget Outlook
105. 3 JulCreative Capitalism, Capitalist Government, and Thought Experiments
106. 3 JulDorothea Dix
107. 3 JulTyranny Without Law Enforcement?
108. 3 JulBryan Caplan Joins the Pigou Club
109. 2 JulThe Reform Mindset
110. 2 JulMy IHS Lectures
111. 2 JulNew NBER working papers
112. 2 JulBad News for Me?
113. 2 JulProducer and Consumer Cities
114. 2 JulGoldin and Katz
115. 1 JulIMF to Investigate the U.S. Financial System?
116. 1 JulCowen and Simon
117. 1 JulPopulation Projection Tool
118. 1 JulA Splendidly Undignified Hatchet Job
119. 1 JulWas Julian Simon a Technical Analyst?
120. 1 JulRobert Fogel on Health Care
121. 1 JulReformers vs. Limited Government
122. 1 JulThe Last Quarter Century

June 2008

1. 30 JunInsomnia and Multiple Equilibria
2. 30 JunEric Turkheimer’s CV
3. 30 JunHealth Care, Management, and Politics
4. 29 JunAmazing Elasticity
5. 29 JunFun Facts About Population Projections; or, Are People Like CDs?
6. 29 JunCrisis of Abundance Watch
7. 28 JunAren’t Voters Disgusting?
8. 27 JunA Deeply Misguided Sentence
9. 27 JunHeads, Hearts, Left, Right
10. 27 JunThe Big Tent of Happiness
11. 27 JunThree Moldbug Quotes
12. 27 JunCrampton Reviews Ariely
13. 27 JunRegulatory Hindsight and the Housing Bubble
14. 27 JunIf I Thought Oil Prices Would Eventually Fall
15. 26 JunArbitrage Challenge
16. 26 JunClass Discussion Starter
17. 26 JunLong-Run Commodity Prices: Essential Readings
18. 26 JunOil: Some Tentative Conclusions and Open Issues
19. 26 JunA Question for Paul Krugman
20. 25 JunMark Thoma’s Question
21. 25 JunLong Tail of Politics Watch
22. 25 JunReasonable Economics
23. 25 JunMy Question for James Hamilton
24. 25 JunMy Model of the Oil Market: Option Value
25. 25 JunSpotted on the Gas Pump at the Local Texaco
26. 25 Jun30-Year-Old Gasoline Mystery Solved
27. 24 JunThe Westphalian State
28. 24 JunMy Most Absurd Belief
29. 24 JunGintis Reviews Ariely
30. 24 JunAre My Days of Freedom Numbered?
31. 24 JunOil Speculation: Paul Krugman Mis-speaks
32. 23 JunImmigrant Directors
33. 23 JunEconomics of Home Ownership Subsidies
34. 23 JunEW’s “New Classics” of Entertainment Technology
35. 22 JunWhat’s the Matter with Westen?
36. 20 JunBest Movie About Communist Romania Ever
37. 20 JunKrugman Breathes New Life Into “Starving the Beast”
38. 20 JunWhat the “Women Hate Child Care” Study Actually Said
39. 20 JunA Loss of Sovereignty?
40. 19 JunSelection Bias and Parental Regret
41. 19 JunA Hazy Question
42. 19 JunTrends in Relative Earnings
43. 18 JunDo Grad Students Really Swagger?
44. 18 JunAnother Intro Econ Book
45. 18 JunDiscussion Topics
46. 18 JunAm I Wrong to Blame the Fed?
47. 18 JunHolocausts of Communism Test Now in Spanish
48. 18 JunBlaming the Fed
49. 18 JunThe Dollar and the Gas Pump
50. 18 JunHow Family Environment Works
51. 17 JunMy Ideas on Health Care Delivery
52. 17 JunThe Most Meaningful Compliments You Ever Received
53. 17 JunAn Econometrics Lesson
54. 17 JunDistress, Moral Intuition, and Economics
55. 17 JunBernanke, Orszag, and Kling on Health Care
56. 17 JunAn Attempt to Answer Bryan’s Question
57. 16 JunThe Trojan Horse Example
58. 16 JunUnions and Productivity
59. 16 JunThe Player and the Referee
60. 16 JunHeckman on Inequality
61. 15 JunGary Becker on Soaring Consumer Credit
62. 15 JunJurisdictional Disputes
63. 15 JunReligious Education
64. 15 JunEconomics: How to Teach it and How Not To
65. 15 JunUnanimity, Consent, and the Lisbon Treaty
66. 15 JunEntrepreneurs, Government, and Energy
67. 14 JunParenthood as the Trump of All Past Regret
68. 13 JunDomestic Issues
69. 13 JunFight Democratic Fundamentalism: Pre-Order The Myth of the Rational Voter In Paperback
70. 13 JunThe Persistence of Rebellion
71. 13 JunPrice Controls on Gas: Is the Public Getting What It Wants?
72. 12 JunPublic Opinion About Fetal Testing
73. 11 JunMore on Taleb
74. 11 JunJolie on Pregnancy: Do You Believe Her?
75. 11 JunHow Far Back Could You Go?
76. 11 JunEconomists, Foreign Competition, and Self-Interest: Rodrik’s Doubly Wrong
77. 11 JunRodrik Turns Cowen Into Caplan
78. 11 JunGlobalization and Moral Intuition
79. 11 JunHow to Tell the Truth With Statistics
80. 10 JunPerfect Post
81. 10 JunLucas Meets Gogol
82. 10 JunKotlikoff Inspects the Mechanism
83. 10 JunThe Market and the Government
84. 9 JunChess and the Flynn Effect
85. 8 JunSenate Oil Manipulation Hearings: Placebo or Incitement?
86. 7 JunMilton Friedman Opposed a Pareto Improvement
87. 6 JunWhat’s the Cheapest Way to Reduce Global Temparture By 3°C?
88. 6 JunLibertarians and the Welfare State: Is It Time to Drop the Hard Line?
89. 6 JunComments Worth Reading
90. 6 JunThe Conservative, the Progressive, and the Masonomist
91. 5 JunWell-Denominated
92. 5 JunThe Golden Rules of Interpretation
93. 5 JunBillers, Players, and Income Inequality
94. 5 JunA Sentence Too Good to Miss
95. 5 JunOption Value and the Non-Equivalence of Cap and Trade with Carbon Taxes
96. 4 JunNotes from the Portable Bookstore
97. 4 JunWho is Freedom’s Enemy?
98. 4 JunWhy You Should Major in Econ: Short and Sweet Version
99. 4 JunWhat Life Experience Taught Me About Religion
100. 4 JunIrreversible Climate Change Policy
101. 4 JunParsing Senator McCain
102. 3 JunArnold Kling Doesn’t Get It
103. 3 JunAre Extremists Really Happier?: The Case of Katrina vanden Heuvel
104. 3 JunRobin Hanson Watch
105. 3 JunRay Kurzweil Watch
106. 3 JunPick Your Road: The U.S. vs. Europe
107. 3 JunFollow-up Question for Modern Liberals
108. 2 JunLearn to Love the Liberal Welfare State?
109. 2 JunInflation: Why We Should Probably Count Food and Fuel After All
110. 2 JunView from the Rear-View Mirror: The U.S. Really Is a Police State
111. 2 JunEfficiency or Rent-Seeking?

May 2008

1. 31 MayRiptopia is Time is Money
2. 31 MayMy Favorite Fifteen Minutes in Europe…
3. 31 MayRobin Hanson to Technophiles: Get Real
4. 31 MayExtending the Enlightened Preference Approach: Proceed With Caution
5. 30 MayClimate Change vs. Entitlements
6. 30 MayMeet Growthology
7. 30 MayMeet the Rational Optimist
8. 29 MayImmigrants and measured GDP per capita
9. 29 MayWhy You’ve Got to Read Gogol’s Dead Souls
10. 29 MayReal Change in Domestic Policy
11. 28 MayEasterly and the Caplan-Cowen Debate
12. 28 MayFrance Bet With Franck
13. 28 MayPersuading Tyler Cowen
14. 28 MayDid Japan’s Gas Tax Holiday Work?
15. 28 MayThe Ministry of Silly Hospitals
16. 28 MayAre Charities Like Startups?
17. 28 MayPaul Graham on Cities
18. 28 MayDiscrimination or Ability?
19. 28 MayPublic Service Signaling
20. 27 MayWhy It’s Optimal to Gain Weight on Vacation: Lessons for Daily Life
21. 27 MayQuality Health Care for Peanuts: How Singapore Does It
22. 26 MayHow Different Are People? A Caplan-Cowen Dialogue
23. 26 MayAn Honest Slogan for SAG: “Don’t Quit Your Day Job”
24. 26 MayCo-operative Signaling
25. 26 MayComment Dialogs–take them off line
26. 26 MayRobin Hanson’s View of the World
27. 26 MayVarious Technology Readings
28. 26 MayReflections on the Evolution in France
29. 24 MayMencius Moldbug vs. Thomas P.M. Barnett
30. 23 MayCharter Communities
31. 23 MayA Reason to Teach Macro
32. 22 MayConservatives, Libertarians, and Big Ideas
33. 22 MayUnchecked Government Marches On, II
34. 22 MayUnchecked Government Marches On
35. 21 MayFixing Medicare with Vouchers
36. 21 MayLibertarians Living on Subsidies
37. 20 MayCap and Trade: Be Afraid
38. 20 MayThe Trouble with Macro
39. 19 MayThe Fiscal Outlook
40. 19 MayForward prices and oil
41. 19 MayWhat an Economics Major Should Take
42. 19 MayConsumer Protection
43. 19 MayAn Entrepreneurial Generation?
44. 18 MayThe News Business
45. 18 MayNot on Fire for Kindle
46. 18 MayIgnorant Masses, Dogmatic Elites
47. 16 MayBubbles vs. Non-Bubbles
48. 14 MayOil: Where Krugman and I Disagree
49. 14 MayFinancial Flows and Regulation
50. 13 MayRichard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley
51. 13 MayThe Best Things European
52. 13 MayThe Under-Principled Life
53. 13 MayMy Model of the Oil Market
54. 13 MayOil, Inventories, and Bubbles
55. 12 MayAttending College != Graduating College
56. 12 MayChris Anderson Podcast on Economics of “Free”
57. 12 MayRobin Hanson Refutes Happiness Research
58. 12 MayOur Imperfectly Evolved Brains
59. 11 MayBrooks’ Hidden Secrets of Happiness
60. 11 MayObama thinks we can be perfect (?)
61. 11 MayMy Research Program for Ph.D Students
62. 11 MayFiscal Desperation in Mass. and Md.
63. 10 MayGood Question
64. 9 MayDon’t Call Me a Philistine
65. 9 MayListen to the Children
66. 9 MayBiggs on Bracket Creep
67. 8 MayTradition of Liberty: Advanced Studies Seminar
68. 7 MayThe Cynical Case for the Gas Tax Holiday: From EconLog to the NYT
69. 7 MayName Your Price: When Will Gas Price Controls Return?
70. 7 MayThe Gasoline Market
71. 7 MayWhat I’m Going to Do on My Summer Vacation
72. 6 MayWhy People Buy Insurance
73. 6 MayThe Right to Vote and the Right to Leave
74. 6 MayThe $.30 Question
75. 6 MayWhy Hillary’s Harmless
76. 5 MayA Basic Divide
77. 5 MayThe Time Capsule from 1983
78. 5 MayGender in EJW
79. 5 MayOver the Sea: Patri’s Dream
80. 4 MayI’ll Shill for Hillary
81. 4 MayA Woman of the People
82. 3 MayIf Merle Kling Could Have Met Brian Doherty
83. 3 MayIndia, 1977: A Libertarian Populist Moment
84. 3 MayWho Said It?

April 2008

1. 30 AprA High-Wage Equilibrium
2. 30 AprOverqualified: What’s the Deal?
3. 30 AprRat-ta-ta-ta-tat
4. 30 AprA Meditation on Minarchy
5. 29 AprHow to Be Mr. Popular When You’re Old
6. 29 AprKuran on Simon: A Fitting Epitaph
7. 29 AprEnvironmental Disasters
8. 29 AprImportant Data on Access to College
9. 28 AprThe CNN Model of Violent Conflict
10. 28 AprSelf-Parody: Pessimistic Bias in the Media
11. 27 AprJim Hamilton Uses Murray Rothbard’s Favorite Epithet
12. 26 AprEuro Bet II x3: The Bet’s On
13. 26 AprInsiders, Outsiders, and Voting Behavior
14. 26 AprEuro Bet II: Win Mark Steyn’s Money
15. 26 AprWestern Culture: Crisis of Confidence?
16. 25 AprFlight of the Red Balloon: Don’t Believe the Hype
17. 25 AprModern Recessions
18. 25 AprPolitical Economy Lessons for the World Bank
19. 25 AprBet Bleg
20. 25 AprIs Ehrlich the Least Hansonian Thinker Ever?
21. 25 AprThe Simon-Ehrlich Rematch: Was There Any Wheat Amongst the Chaff?
22. 25 AprIncome Distribution Reality
23. 25 AprFiscal Reality
24. 24 AprRiding Tigers by James Schneider: The Best 21st Century Novel You Haven’t Read
25. 24 AprCorrection: Men, Women, Kids, and Happiness
26. 24 AprLoose Mortgage Credit
27. 24 AprCredit Spreads and the Fed
28. 23 AprA Basic Economic Lesson
29. 22 AprPeasants vs. Nomads
30. 22 AprStepping on Will’s Toes
31. 22 AprWilkinson and Shirky
32. 22 AprDo I Step on Libertarian Toes?
33. 22 AprAssortative Living
34. 21 AprI Still Hate Monetary Theory
35. 21 AprDiminishing Returns and Life
36. 21 AprTwo New Fun Lectures
37. 21 AprI Just Got $100,000 Worth of Consumer Surplus!
38. 20 AprCreating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn’t Good Publicity
39. 19 AprA Cerebral Defense of Gun Rights
40. 19 AprAre Natalist Tax Incentives a Free Lunch?
41. 19 AprThe Quick Fix: For the Love of God, Give Every Haitian a Green Card
42. 18 AprTrue Insults and False Compliments
43. 18 AprEconomic Policy for Humans? What Thaler and Sunstein Miss
44. 17 AprBest Advice I’ve Heard in Months
45. 17 AprWhy I am an Austro-Keynesian
46. 17 AprBehavioral Economics Ready for (Sub) Prime Time?
47. 16 AprChildlessness and Regret
48. 16 AprBook Club Worthy
49. 15 AprBill Cosby: Underrated
50. 15 AprReducing Ignorance, Facilitating Irrationality?
51. 15 AprThe Rationality of Iran
52. 15 AprThe Muddle that is Macro
53. 14 AprMarried with 19 Kids = Single & Childless
54. 14 AprRoots of West Virginia’s Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
55. 14 AprWhat I’m Reading (Slowly)
56. 13 AprThe High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation
57. 10 AprEcon Prof Lead Character in New Movie
58. 10 AprWhat Would It Take to Make You Take a Spammer Seriously?
59. 10 AprYour Foot in the Door and Your Stuff in the Store
60. 10 AprMerle Kling
61. 8 AprWill Goolsbee Last?
62. 8 AprBlogs and Books
63. 7 AprMy Views on Optimal Family Size: Some Clarifications
64. 7 AprDaniel Klein on Libertarianism
65. 7 AprAmerican Excess
66. 7 AprBe Careful What You Wish For
67. 6 AprAmerican Mugabe, Revisted
68. 6 AprGreat Question: The Scarcity of Social Democratic Triumphalism
69. 6 AprDon’t Stop, But Look Before You Leap
70. 6 AprPlease Stop
71. 5 AprThe Debaters: A Childishly Long Reply to Will
72. 4 AprPerceived Duty to Have Children, by Gender
73. 4 AprMake them take Basis Risk
74. 4 AprThe Willpower Muscle
75. 3 AprThe Virtues of Small Enterprise
76. 3 AprIs Family Size a Gendered Issue?
77. 3 AprWhy I Don’t Call Myself a “Moderate Austrian”
78. 3 AprFinally, a Pure Bailout
79. 2 AprFundamentalists: When They’re Right, When They’re Wrong
80. 2 AprWhy Hitler Chose the Jews
81. 2 AprWhat is a Market Economy?
82. 1 AprRegulatory Re-Org
83. 1 AprHiggs on Göring on War
84. 1 AprEconomics Appears Late

March 2008

1. 31 MarYou’re Never Too Old to Become a Kidult
2. 31 MarJamie-Lynn Spears’ Pregnancy: What’s the Problem?
3. 30 MarModernity and the Gender Gap: It’s Counter-Intutive
4. 30 MarThe Sub-Utopianism of the Market
5. 28 MarJefferson Against Newspapers
6. 28 MarEducation and Beliefs About Campaign Finance: An Exception to the Rule
7. 27 MarYou Do the Math: Goolsbee on Retirement Investing
8. 27 MarMeltzer on Financial Regulation
9. 27 MarPoliticians: How Outraged Should You Be?
10. 27 MarPublic Opinion as a Political Speed Limit
11. 26 MarThe Plunder Economy
12. 26 MarTyler on Signaling: Even the New and Improved Version Doesn’t Cut It
13. 26 MarEducation, Assortative Mating, and Inequality
14. 26 MarJunk Macroeconomic Science
15. 25 MarRotfl
16. 25 MarFinancial Commentary
17. 25 MarPosner on What Teachers Want
18. 25 MarPublishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About
19. 25 MarThe “Too Simple to Write a Book About It” Diet
20. 24 MarA Result I Was Happy to Hear
21. 24 MarSnippets of Subversive Folk Songs
22. 24 MarEmerson on Tipping Charity
23. 24 MarSherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker
24. 24 MarThe Paperback Arrives
25. 23 MarPeter Orszag on Health Care Costs
26. 23 MarOn the “to be read” list
27. 22 MarThe Root Causes of Divorce: The Usual Suspects
28. 20 MarFolk Songs
29. 19 MarIs “Contagion” the Result of Statistical Discrimination?
30. 18 MarThe Coase Theorem and Divorce; Or, the Familial Economy of Hate
31. 18 MarDefending Market-Value Accounting
32. 18 MarThe Medium and The Message
33. 18 MarFinancial Turmoil
34. 17 MarCosts and Benefits of the Patent System
35. 17 MarThe Power of Mistaken Identity
36. 17 MarA Historical Anecdote
37. 17 MarMonetary Theory and Policy
38. 16 MarAnother Parable
39. 15 MarNot Fannie Mae!
40. 14 MarSpeculator of Last Resort?
41. 14 MarThe Love of Hierarchies
42. 14 MarOnce Upon a Time
43. 14 MarAn Army of Spitzers
44. 14 MarHow I Would Advertise Nip/Tuck in the AER
45. 12 MarBirth Order and Safety
46. 12 MarThe Outlier Who Would Be President
47. 12 MarWhy Colleges Need More Money
48. 12 MarSentences that Should Embarrass Any Grad Student
49. 12 MarWisdom of Crowds Blog Experiment
50. 11 MarMy Review of Gregory Clark
51. 10 MarWhat Rothbard Missed: Error or Demagoguery?
52. 10 MarWhat the Mainstream Can Learn from Rothbard’s Monetary Econ – and What Rothbard Should Have Learned from the Mainstream
53. 10 MarSelection and Politicians
54. 10 MarSacrificing an Economic Adviser
55. 10 MarWhat is Revolutionary Science?
56. 10 MarWhere are the Hedge Funds?
57. 10 MarInternational Inequality
58. 9 MarFree Lunch at SXSW?
59. 7 MarGeorge McGovern, Libertarian
60. 7 MarFeldstein’s Lender Bailout Proposal
61. 6 MarCivil Disobedience Alert
62. 6 MarWhy Does Nurture Affect Religion?
63. 6 MarEnergy Scenarios
64. 5 MarGary Gygax, RIP
65. 5 MarJonah Goldberg’s Alternative Title
66. 5 MarPodcasting is so 2005
67. 4 MarWhat Looks Good at This Year’s Public Choice Meetings
68. 4 MarWho Will Be Less Bad for Trade?
69. 4 MarHamilton: Trade-offs, Not Tightropes
70. 4 MarThe Civic Duty to Know Your Limits
71. 4 MarProgressives, Eugenics, and Airbrushing
72. 4 MarEconomics and Sociology
73. 4 MarSecurity Symbolism
74. 4 MarWho Owns Oil
75. 3 MarLife Under Socialism
76. 3 MarKurzweil on Solar Power
77. 3 MarThere’s a Name for What I Am
78. 1 MarHow People in the Biz Explain the Subprime Crisis to Their Families
79. 1 MarWho Says Economics Causes Asperger’s?
80. 1 MarDoes the Public Want Smaller Government After All? A Reply to Horpedahl

February 2008

1. 29 FebOne of the Best Critiques of My Work
2. 29 FebThe Strangest Review of My Book… from Shanghai
3. 29 FebI plead guilty to plagiarism
4. 28 FebHow Nurture Works
5. 28 FebHal Varian’s Words of Wisdom
6. 28 FebWhat Causes Educational Inequality?
7. 28 FebWHO’s Health Rankings
8. 28 FebTwo Sentences that Make Strange Bedfellows
9. 28 FebCan You Guess?
10. 27 FebFun to Read
11. 27 FebIs Mike Moffatt less than three degrees away?
12. 27 FebPut up with it
13. 27 FebEconLog Enters the Self-Control Market
14. 27 FebLax Discipline: Laziness – or Myopia?
15. 27 FebArithmetic and Language
16. 26 FebThe Case for Kids: What I’m Up Against
17. 26 FebThe Housing Market
18. 26 FebThe GMU Crowd
19. 26 FebCoolest Macro Paper I’ve Seen in Years
20. 26 FebPaging Randle McMurphy
21. 26 FebCap and Rent-Seek
22. 26 FebWe’ll Take Tim Harford
23. 25 FebThe Left is Always Right
24. 25 FebCuba and Capitalist Contagion
25. 25 FebThe Masonomics Fab Four
26. 25 FebKotlikoff on the Fair Tax
27. 25 FebThomas Sowell Podcast
28. 24 FebLook at Cuba
29. 23 FebDoes the Median Voter Model Explain Departmental Politics?
30. 21 FebBailie Mae
31. 21 FebThe Classical and Medieval Economy
32. 20 FebIt’s Not Just Me: Further Background on Blacks’ Return to Education
33. 20 FebAncient Rome, etc.
34. 20 FebSolar Power Arithmetic
35. 19 FebMore on the Trouble with Minarchism
36. 19 FebRon Bailey on Sustainability
37. 19 FebCastro’s Resignation: The Market Says It Matters
38. 19 FebWe Have a Winner
39. 19 FebYet More Economic History
40. 19 FebOn Economic History
41. 19 FebPersonality and Ability
42. 19 FebCampaign Stories
43. 18 FebRegressions By Popular Demand: Black Education Pays Extra
44. 16 FebOstracism for “Acting White”: Is It Really “Unavoidable”?
45. 15 FebIt will be a great day when
46. 15 FebAnti-fascism
47. 15 FebConservative Fascism
48. 15 FebDogs: I Take it Back
49. 14 FebTim Harford Replies
50. 14 FebEnergy Conservation
51. 14 FebThe Trouble with Minarchism
52. 14 FebPreventive Health Care is not a Free Lunch
53. 14 FebTaking the Initiative on Health Care
54. 13 FebThe Truth Hurts: What Harford Didn’t Say About Statistical Discrimination
55. 13 FebThe Cause of Everything
56. 13 FebA Health Care Proposal
57. 13 FebContemporary Tulip Bulbs
58. 13 FebConsumption vs. Income
59. 13 FebVenezuela Plays the Oil Card
60. 12 FebCoase in Detroit
61. 12 FebAlcohol and Non-Linear Dosage Effects
62. 12 FebHealth Insurance Innovation?
63. 11 FebFrank Knight on the Humility Factor
64. 11 FebSell-Out Symmetry
65. 11 FebWhen in Doubt, Regulate?
66. 11 FebThe Most Memorable Passage in The Nurture Assumption
67. 11 FebDogs and the Environment
68. 11 FebEasterly on World Poverty
69. 10 FebAre Externalities an Intellectually Sound Bridge Between Us and Them?
70. 10 FebThe Real Subprime Story
71. 9 FebGintis on Happiness
72. 8 FebAnother Surprising Gintis Review
73. 8 FebLow Income, High Marginal Tax Rate
74. 8 FebThe Regulatory State
75. 8 FebUnfair Humor for the Greater Good
76. 7 FebThe State of the Arts: Cowen Was Right
77. 7 FebMy Election Assessment
78. 6 FebMoore on Climate Preferences
79. 6 FebHal Varian on Modern Capital
80. 6 FebMore on Trade and Empire
81. 6 FebA Patchwork of Prejudices
82. 5 FebThe Production Function and the Road Not Taken: A Question for Writers
83. 5 FebWhat’s Keeping American Workers Safe?
84. 5 FebWhy Did Overall Course Quality at GMU Suddenly Decline?
85. 4 FebDan Klein to Paul Krugman: You Can Do Better
86. 4 FebTrade and Hegemony
87. 4 FebUncle Jonathan Wants You
88. 3 FebGreat Graphic Novels I’ve Been Reading
89. 2 FebIf You Want Peace, Work for ???: Part 2
90. 2 FebIf You Want Peace, Work for ???: Part 1
91. 1 FebA Health Care Experiment

January 2008

1. 31 JanEconomics in the Classroom
2. 31 JanEconomic Communication Prize
3. 31 JanHealth Care and Organization
4. 31 JanArnold on Atlas: Where’s He Right, Where He’s Wrong
5. 31 JanTyler Cowen Cheers Democracy
6. 31 JanThe Massachusetts Health Care Tar-baby
7. 30 JanTwo Dismal Books
8. 30 JanTax Cuts Under Price Controls
9. 30 JanMy Ongoing Frustration
10. 29 JanWriters’ Strike Brings Great Writing to Network TV
11. 29 JanThe Government Health Care System
12. 28 JanSome Wishful Prizes
13. 28 JanPreference Heterogeneity and Insurance
14. 28 JanTwo Graphs About Dependency
15. 25 JanThe Real Dependency Ratio
16. 24 JanMiscommunication with Megan
17. 24 JanI Have Conditions
18. 24 JanThe Fallacy of Time Diversification: Mea Culpa?
19. 24 JanStimulus?
20. 24 JanA Good Explanation
21. 23 JanRichard T. Ely, Founding Fascist
22. 23 JanHow Can Guys Be So Lazy Around the House?
23. 23 JanBoudreaux vs. Macro
24. 23 JanAdvertising: What Is Not Seen
25. 23 JanHarford Book Forum at Marginal Revolution
26. 23 JanJonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism
27. 23 JanA Good Sentence
28. 23 JanQuestions for Goolsbee and Samuelson
29. 22 JanStimulus: The Mainstream View
30. 22 JanRace and Institutions
31. 22 JanThe New Economics of Marriage
32. 22 JanClimate Debate Daily
33. 21 JanHenderson Beats Wikipedia
34. 21 JanOutrunning a Bear
35. 21 JanTwo New Books
36. 20 JanStatistics is Not Right-Wing, But It is Elitist
37. 20 JanMedical Innumeracy in Super Crunchers
38. 20 JanHeroes Call Me Friend: Formal Reputation on the Hero Games Discussion Boards
39. 18 JanThe Red Herring of Principal-Agent Problems
40. 18 JanThe Bad Old Days of 1994
41. 18 JanWhat a Difference a Month Makes
42. 18 Jan“Bloggers As Illegal Immigrants”: What Does Borjas’ Analogy Really Show?
43. 18 JanBrooks vs. Caplan
44. 17 JanOne Million Dollars!
45. 17 JanTyler Cowen’s Daily Miracle
46. 17 JanSchool Choice Pessimism
47. 17 JanMcKitrick on Global Warming
48. 17 JanEconomists for Self-Improvement
49. 17 JanHow Globalization Will Save Your Life
50. 16 JanFinancial Crises and Real Growth
51. 16 JanAn Amazing Map
52. 16 JanMencius Moldbug Asks Some Questions
53. 15 JanNorth Korean Refugees and the Olympics
54. 14 JanRandian Scene of the Year in There Will Be Blood
55. 14 JanSingapore: The Deal-Breaker
56. 13 JanAnother Very Fair Review of My Book
57. 13 JanPosner vs. Becker
58. 13 JanInconvenient Truth about Energy
59. 13 JanUseful Research
60. 13 JanHappiness Research
61. 13 JanLiberal Fascism Watch
62. 13 JanSingapore’s Health Care System: A Free Lunch You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
63. 13 JanMy Classroom, Con’t
64. 12 JanHow Glen Whitman Fights Statistical Discrimination
65. 12 JanTone of Comments
66. 11 JanSingapore: “Automatic Stabilizers” Done Right
67. 10 JanElasticity Bleg
68. 9 JanThoughts on Medicare
69. 9 JanTwilight of My Liberal Idol
70. 9 JanPolitics and Cults
71. 9 JanTruck and Barter or Bandits?
72. 8 JanMegan McArdle on Demographics
73. 8 JanRon Paul’s Baggage
74. 8 JanPolitical Scapegoating: How Farmer-Voters Respond to Bad Weather
75. 8 JanMy Essay on the Fair Tax
76. 8 JanInteresting Tidbits
77. 8 JanVirtual Political Economy
78. 8 JanOf Mayas and Markets
79. 7 JanCan Ron Paul Ensure a Democratic Victory? Will He?
80. 7 JanPathological Individualism?
81. 7 JanThe Internet, New York, Detroit, and House Concerts
82. 7 JanWhy The Fair Tax is Unworkable
83. 6 JanJim Manzi on Marty Weitzman
84. 6 JanMankiw on Fairy Godmotherism
85. 6 JanAlan Blinder on Globalization
86. 5 JanAn Iranian Communist Gets It Right in Persepolis
87. 5 JanFaces versus Policies
88. 4 JanIowa’s Terms of Trade Improve
89. 4 JanPredicting What Bryan will Write Sunday
90. 3 JanGlobal Warming Scorecard
91. 2 JanWhat’s Wrong With Austrian Business Cycle Theory
92. 2 JanOne Property Rights, Many Recipes?
93. 2 JanSome Responses on Global Warming
94. 1 JanBrockman, Mind-Changing, con’t
95. 1 JanJohn Brockman strikes again