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December 2013

  1. Introducing Scott Sumner
  2. Why I Fight Write
  3. Immigrants and their Motivations, Part 2
  4. The Prideful Worker Effect
  5. Farewell, Art Carden
  6. Should We Forgive Student Loan Debt?
  7. How Bad Is White Nationalism?
  8. Grow the Respect Pie
  9. The Economics of Respect
  10. Immigrants and Their Motivations
  11. Mark Your Calendar: Reddit AMA for r/anarcho_capitalism on February 6!
  12. Who These Kids Are
  13. Welcome to the Police State
  14. Who Are These Kids?
  15. Gifts, Efficiency, and Social Desirability Bias
  16. Freedom of Speech: True and False
  17. Walter Oi, RIP
  18. Climate Stabilizers: How Do People Adjust?
  19. The Economics of Christmas: An Addendum
  20. More Likely Than Not? This is Scientific?
  21. A Literary Theoretical Treatment of Prices
  22. Farewell to Bart Wilson, For Now
  23. Brace Yourselves. The In-Laws are Coming, or, How to Ruin Christmas
  24. Why I love markets – and not just technology
  25. How to Work in France
  26. How the Welfare State Promotes Nativism
  27. A New Gig: DepositAccounts.com
  28. Why I Read Paul Krugman
  29. Some Explanations for the Curious Absence of Socially Conservative Economics
  30. Economics in One Meme: Growing Again
  31. Consuming Resources Isn’t Success: On Charity and Development Aid
  32. DeMuth on Obamacare
  33. Higher Is Not Down
  34. What Are Cowenian Rights?
  35. How Big of a Deal Is Social Security?
  36. Interest is Special, Says Special Interest
  37. The Curious Absence of Socially Conservative Economics
  38. Crusade, Denial, or Concerned Tolerance?: The Case of MSM and HIV
  39. George Mason University’s Economics in Action
  40. Denver Post’s Media Bias, Part Two
  41. Media Bias, Case No. 15239
  42. Et Tu, Economist?
  43. Labor Economists vs. Signaling
  44. Emporiophobia at Christmas
  45. Krugman’s Kontradictions or Contradictions?
  46. A Fortune Cookie for Ron Unz
  47. Exchange and the Human Condition
  48. Ambition
  49. I, Christmas
  50. Econ as Incredulity
  51. Elizabeth Warren Channels Milton Friedman
  52. Was Going to War with Japan a Good Idea?
  53. Selgin’s Thermostat Analogy
  54. Zwolinski’s Weak Case for a Guaranteed Minimum Income
  55. Nelson Mandela, RIP
  56. Levatter and Brennan Converge
  57. Phase-In: A Demagogic Theory of the Minimum Wage
  58. Weight and velocity of money
  59. Levatter on Brennan
  60. Holiday Benevolence: Increasing or Decreasing Marginal Returns?
  61. Thank you for vaping
  62. Looking for Love in the Laboratory
  63. Ryan Avent on Economic Growth and Jim Crow Laws
  64. The Economic Illiteracy of School History
  65. College Economics: Incomplete, But Not Taught “Backwards”
  66. Robert Murphy on Why Government Can’t Run Like a Business
  67. Evil in Plain Sight
  68. What is Service?
  69. Do-It-Yourself vs. the Minimum Wage

November 2013

  1. David Friedman on the Precautionary Principle
  2. Illusory Bubbles
  3. Why Buildings Aren’t Taller
  4. Barone on Personal Exemptions and Tax Credits
  5. Happy Thanksgiving! For What are You Thankful?
  6. Rights are Obligations, and That’s the Problem
  7. Means-Testing and Behavioral Econ
  8. Switzerland doesn’t cap the salaries of top executives
  9. The Pigou Club Reconsidered
  10. Rising Male Non-Employment: Supply, not Demand
  11. An Ethical Quandary: Should I Have Taken Frank’s Coffee?
  12. A Crime Beyond Denunciation
  13. Hoxby vs. Dale-Krueger on the Selectivity Premium
  14. GDP: A Bad Measure of Well-Being
  15. The art of silly norms
  16. Friday Night Video: McKitrick on Carbon Taxes
  17. Paul Gregory’s Case Against JFK Assassination Conspiracy
  18. Gun Grabbing: A Reversal of Fortune
  19. An Idea for Someone Looking for a Project
  20. European Union, which steps forward?
  21. Koyama on Working Conditions During the Industrial Revolution
  22. The Economic Illiteracy of High School History
  23. Helen Lovejoy Political Economy: “Think of The Children” As a Justification for Government
  24. Economics and The Rapture
  25. Saez You: Income Distribution without Key Components of Income
  26. Bartender, Cashier, Cook, Janitor, Security Guard, Waiter
  27. How Staggering is the Briggs-Tabarrok Effect?
  28. Language and Social Justice
  29. Richman: Non-Libertarians Sorta Agree With Us
  30. Matt Yglesias: Health Insurance Doesn’t Affect Mortality
  31. Oppression is a Negative-Sum Game
  32. From the Vault: The Negative Effects of the Minimum Wage
  33. Hobbesian Misanthropy in The Purge
  34. Ron Paul’s Misunderstanding of the CPI
  35. Macro Blog Bleg: What Should I (and my Students!) Be Reading?
  36. Would Buy-and-Hold Cut Finance Down to Size?
  37. Coase’s last book honored by the Atlas Foundation
  38. Minimum Wages, Raising Rivals’ Costs, and Press Releases
  39. A central bank for Scotland?
  40. Nowrasteh on E-Verify
  41. Why Nations Fail: A Contrarian Take
  42. The Ends Justify the Means: Lies are OK When We Know Best
  43. Michael Cohen: Lying is Alright if It Helps You Get Your Way
  44. Unz Debate Analysis
  45. Prices are Like Words
  46. The Learning of the Wise
  47. Did the Federal Spending Cuts Slow Growth
  48. Of Fossil Fuels, Forests, and the Future of Prosperity
  49. Best. Comment. Ever.
  50. Mike Lee’s Anti-Supply-Side Tax Cut
  51. Obama: Government Doesn’t Work
  52. Why Do Incorrect Stories Stick?
  53. Explaining Burden of a Tax with Words
  54. Jon Cooper: Force Others to Do What I Do Voluntarily
  55. You Didn’t Pay Child Support? We’ll Make it Harder for You to Work
  56. Happiness for All
  57. We Won!
  58. The Decline of Creative Destruction
  59. McKenzie on Driving vs. Walking
  60. An Invitation to Bryan Caplan and Vivek Wadhwa: Care to Debate?
  61. The Clash of Aristocratic and Bourgeois Virtues in “The Wire”
  62. The New Colossus, Vivek Wadhwa Version
  63. Play and Exit
  64. The Pre-Existing Condition Exaggeration
  65. Vivek Wadhwa Responds
  66. What I’ve Been Reading Lately: Schooling Edition
  67. What I’ve Been Reading Lately
  68. Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere: My Closing Statement for IQ2
  69. Metaphorical Voting on “Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere”: The Case of Vivek Wadhwa
  70. How to Deal With Those You Disagree With
  71. The Naik Strategy
  72. Friday Night Video: Why No Milton Friedman Today
  73. If You’re So Smart . . .
  74. Debate Analysis: Unz, Wadhwa, and Me
  75. Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere: My Opening Statement for IQ2
  76. Let’s Meet at the Southerns, or, Want to Read My Manuscript?

October 2013

  1. Switching the printing press on
  2. Debate Results
  3. Do We Work Too Much?
  4. See Me Today at Intelligence Squared
  5. Reclaiming Fairness: Competition Policy
  6. A Question Almost All My Labor Students Got Right
  7. Did Obama Break His Promise?
  8. Salim Furth: Two Kinds of Austerity
  9. I Would Argue
  10. Extended Adolescence: A Possible Austrian Perspective
  11. Trust, Diversity, Credit Cards, and E-Commerce
  12. Eugene Fama, Extreme Libertarian?
  13. Why Not Compulsory College?
  14. Day dreaming for libraries
  15. Friday Night Video: CBS Recognizes How ObamaCare Can Hurt
  16. Reply to Professor Erik Brynjolfsson
  17. Macroeconomic Theory, Evidence, and Changed Minds: A Bleg
  18. The Pre-Existing Elephant in the Room
  19. An “antifragile” financial system – but how?
  20. The Big Bag of Wealth
  21. Pick Your Poison
  22. Germany: trading political stability with economic stupidity
  23. The Relative Unimportance of Seigniorage
  24. Lawrence Klein, RIP
  25. Why Do Firms Prefer More Able Workers?
  26. Listener-Supported Radio: What Should I Do?
  27. On Sweatshops: They’re Better Than the Alternative
  28. Does College Pay Off for Cashiers? Yes & No
  29. Reply to James Pethokoukis–and a Challenge
  30. Oops. My Apologies to John Bogle–and to Paul Samuelson
  31. Friday Night Video: Mark Cuban, Humanitarian
  32. Krugman on Interest Rates
  33. Henderson on the Three Nobels
  34. The Iron Laws of Pedagogy
  35. Reinhardt on Doctors’ Monopoly
  36. My Two Modes
  37. What Modernity Hath Wrought: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Absolutely Amazing
  38. Against crony capitalism, Italian style
  39. Giving Writers the Benefit of the Doubt
  40. Henderson on Fama, Shiller, and Hansen
  41. Reclaiming Fairness as a Precept of Commerce
  42. Who Treats You Worse?
  43. Why Not Protect Workers from Customers?
  44. You Can Always Depend on the Self-Interest of Strangers: Hotels Edition
  45. 60 Minutes Highlights
  46. The Economics of Receipts
  47. Trade unions at the opera
  48. Henderson on Sunstein
  49. The flying postman
  50. Time for a Third Party? Let’s Bet
  51. A Challenge for Anti-Keynesians
  52. Krugman on Default
  53. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren*
  54. Lilliputian Competition Authority
  55. Hummel on Fed’s Lack of Control of Interest Rates
  56. A Cheap, Inoffensive Way to Make Democracy Work Better
  57. What I’ve Been Writing Lately
  58. When Is Abolitionism Justified?
  59. On Walmart and the Changing Retail Sector: Resources
  60. Fun Facts on Disability Insurance
  61. Higher-Cost Health Insurance for Older California Resident
  62. Preferences, Planning, and Trade-offs: Musings from the Airport
  63. International Evidence on the Human Capital/Signaling Split
  64. Daniel Goleman’s Attack
  65. The ObamaCare-Induced Shift to Part-Time Work
  66. Keep Calm and Read Bastiat
  67. Washington Monument Strategy on Steroids
  68. Morbid Thinking
  69. Prices Sing
  70. Boudreaux and Ewell on Low Salaries of Essential Workers
  71. Subsidizing Stadiums: Economic Losers are Political Winners
  72. The Error of Utilitarian Behavioral Economics
  73. Capitalism and the filmmakers
  74. Would Obamacare Have Saved Walter White’s Soul?
  75. Ezra Klein’s Claim about the Shutdown
  76. A Primer on Malemployment

September 2013

  1. The Status of Unemployed High-Status Papers
  2. Henderson’s Godwin’s Law
  3. The Great Malemployment Debate
  4. Happy birthday, Ludwig von Mises
  5. Airplane Repo: Paean to Private Property
  6. Maxim Lott on the Carrier Cost Overrun
  7. What I’ve Been Reading Lately
  8. For Natalism
  9. Me in Dallas on Friday
  10. Helen Lovejoy Political Economy on the Playground
  11. Who is Mrs Merkel?
  12. The Homage Statism Pays to Liberty
  13. Optimal Minimum Wage?
  14. Tyler Long-Term Unemployment Bet
  15. Of Mice and Men, Morals and Markets
  16. What Bewley Learned
  17. The Men and Women of the Moral System: Adam Smith on Sobriety
  18. Why Don’t Wages Fall During a Recession?: Q&A With Me Channeling Truman Bewley
  19. Weekend Wall Street Journal
  20. Friday Night Video: David Friedman vs. George Smith
  21. A Pacifist History of Westeros: Gochenour Guest Post
  22. Bleg: The Right Way to Read Tyler
  23. What’s ‘freedom’ (regular human beings version)?
  24. When Does Changing Household Size Resurrect American Economic Performance?
  25. Game of Thrones and the Common-Sense Case for Pacifism
  26. Tupy: Wealth Saves Lives
  27. Seth Helps Students Select Careers; Does Anyone Else?
  28. Regulating your diet
  29. Helen Lovejoy Political Economy: To Encourage the National Labour and Protect the Children
  30. Four Readings from Frederic Bastiat
  31. The We in Wealth
  32. Free Market Schizophrenia
  33. Galton’s Demented Idea
  34. Mark Perry: Food Prices Have not Risen Much
  35. Coase on Regulating Goods and Ideas
  36. Further Notes on the Need for Kitchen Regulation
  37. Incentives in Foreign Policy
  38. The Shared Illusion of Education’s Mainstream Defenders and Contrarian Detractors
  39. Helen Lovejoy Political Economy: Unregulated Secret Dinner Parties
  40. Perhaps the most relevant of Mencken’s aphorisms
  41. Sometimes, “Not My Problem” Is the Right Answer
  42. Mencken on Government
  43. What Is the Forced Organ Donation Hypothetical?
  44. Faustian Economics
  45. Bleg: Questions for Noah Smith
  46. Henderson on the Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy
  47. The Gratitude of Bryan Cranston
  48. Life Extension: Economists vs. the Public
  49. Psychohistory and us
  50. Academic Freedom: For Professors Only?
  51. “Take pity of your town and your people”: Sarah Skwire on Henry V and War
  52. Business, Lobbying, and the Big Picture
  53. Assad Pulls a Keystone
  54. Stephen Hicks on War and Philosophy
  55. Friday Night Video: Munger, Skidelsky, Epstein, and Roberts
  56. Motivated Numeracy and the Enlightenment
  57. Why Should We Go To War With [Name]?
  58. What I’ve Been Writing Lately: On Immigration
  59. Why are YOU A Libertarian?
  60. Further Notes on Schooling
  61. My Superintelligence Skepticism
  62. I, Coffee
  63. Ken Minogue’s last essay
  64. Henderson on Coase
  65. Research That Should Get More Attention: “The People’s Romance” by Daniel Klein
  66. Economics as a Branch of Literature
  67. The Mixed Messages of French Schooling
  68. Coase on Friedman’s Methodology
  69. Open Borders is a Moderate Position
  70. In Praise of Productive Labor
  71. Ronald Coase, 1910-2013
  72. College Football Season is Here: How does the NCAA Stay Afloat?
  73. Daniel Kuehn on Immigration
  74. Who Is Tyler’s Reference Group?
  75. Robert Murphy on Math in Economics

August 2013

  1. Slate’s Hanna Rosin on the “Gender Wage Gap Lie”
  2. I’m Proud to Be a Bad Person
  3. Why Can’t Labor Be More Like Housing?
  4. Only a Biologist Can Go to Universal Humanism
  5. When Goods Don’t Cross Borders, Armies Will
  6. Farewell to a great historian
  7. The Tears of Termination
  8. Costco vs. Wal-Mart
  9. The Partialtarian Corporation
  10. McCloskey on Self-Ownership, Taxation, and the Corruption of Virtue
  11. Peace On Earth Is Almost Here
  12. Day One
  13. Solow and Samuelson on the Phillips Curve
  14. The Political Economy of Government-Financed Boondoggles
  15. The Means-Testing Club
  16. Good Students Rule
  17. Galbraith Opposes Cronyism
  18. Kitty Galbraith on Keynes
  19. The stupidest letter a US Ambassador ever received
  20. Introducing Bart Wilson
  21. Lake Wobegon on the Job
  22. Who Would Win in an Ideological Turing Test: Young Progressives, or Young Conservatives?
  23. The Tragedy of Economath
  24. I Was Wrong: Avik Roy was Right
  25. Recent Reading
  26. We’re Number 12! We’re Number 12!
  27. The People of Economath
  28. Economath Fails the Cost-Benefit Test
  29. Intelligence Squared Debate: Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere
  30. Bitcoin and libertarians in “the great machine”
  31. Can Higher Limits of Out-of-Pocket Costs Help Consumers?
  32. I, Beef Jerky
  33. Galbraith’s Imposition of Price Controls
  34. Japan Bet Bleg
  35. Dehiring: Win-Win-Lose
  36. Galbraith’s Criticism of Keynes: Keep, Cut, or Edit?
  37. Expressive Voting, Emigration, and Alsace-Lorraine
  38. Galbraith’s Criticism of Keynes
  39. Did Galbraith and Steinbeck Ever Discuss This?
  40. Sunstein Goes Straight to Coercion
  41. Hayek as read by Chinese communists
  42. Friday Night Video: Good Advice from Ashton Kutcher
  43. Galbraith and the Southern Sharecroppers
  44. The Programmatic Paternalist
  45. Galbraith on Helping Farmers
  46. Galbraith Bests Henderson: AEA Edition
  47. Taxes: Who Pays? My Latest from LearnLiberty
  48. Summer Readings: “We” by Evgenij Zamyatin
  49. Gaming on EconLog: A History of Nerddom
  50. What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions?
  51. Richard Parker on John Kenneth Galbraith
  52. Looking Out the Window: Costs and Benefits of Immigrants, Yard Sale Edition
  53. Nudge and Abortion Followup
  54. Huemer Symposium at BHL
  55. On Re-Reading Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom
  56. Nudge and Abortion
  57. Where no publisher has gone before
  58. Why No Slippery Slope? Because Paternalists Start at the Bottom
  59. Cost Benefit Jr: Stories in Microeconomics
  60. Sympathy for the Citizenist
  61. Tribalism, Misanthropy, and the Lesser Evil
  62. Open Borders Logo Contest
  63. Upstart Bleg: Help Paul Gu Help You
  64. Capitalism is awesome
  65. Dwight Lee on Whether the Poor Vote Their Financial Interest
  66. What if Tipping Became the Norm at McDonald’s? Best Answers
  67. Do Wage Cuts Reduce Communal Purchasing Power?
  68. Henry Hazlitt, public intellectual
  69. Libertarianism as Moral Overlearning
  70. “I’d be willing to pay an extra fifty cents so McDonald’s Workers Can Make More…”
  71. Immigration, Misanthropy, and the Holocaust
  72. Business Brainwashing and Vocational Education
  73. What if Tipping Became the Norm at McDonald’s?
  74. Who’s Second-Guessing
  75. The new future of television?

July 2013

  1. Nudge, Policy, and the Endowment Effect
  2. How to Fund All Your Favorite Causes–and Get Rich in the Process
  3. Guess Who’s Second-Guessing
  4. The Economics of Self-Imposed Price Ceilings
  5. New at Forbes: McDonald’s and Minimum Wages
  6. David Kennedy on Early 20th Century Economic Progress
  7. How U.S. Steel Helped Break Down Racism
  8. Twitter vs. Flying Cars
  9. Bastiat on Baseball
  10. Friday Night Video: Grover Norquist on Immigration
  11. What To Do With What You Did Over Your Summer Vacation (2013 Edition)
  12. 42: Becker’s Economics of Discrimination in a Movie
  13. Paul Krugman: The Average Family is Materially Much Better Off
  14. The sticky label of ‘Social Darwinism’
  15. Nowrasteh on Sowell and Immigration
  16. Averages and Margins: A Teaching Moment
  17. We Calculate: You Decide
  18. Is royalty the most absurd thing?
  19. Eminent Domain’s Contribution to Detroit’s Downfall
  20. But Did it Toast?
  21. The Absurdity of Royalty
  22. Thoughts from the hospital
  23. I, Toaster: Revisited
  24. Robin Hanson on Questions
  25. Daniel Kuehn on Questions about Funding Sources
  26. Friday Night Video: Murphy on the Optimal Carbon Tax
  27. Noah Smith on Wealth and Efficiency
  28. Coming Attractions for Next Week
  29. Meta-Measuring Signaling
  30. Four Big Facts About Hiring and IQ
  31. A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Nanny State Get Fat
  32. Les Miserables
  33. On Bastiat and the Edifice Complex
  34. Gintis on the Evolution of Private Property
  35. Selgin on Gorton
  36. Roughead on Sea Power
  37. We-e-ee Are NEVER EVER EVER–Running Out of Oil!
  38. Vegetarianism and Moral Self-Deception
  39. Recent Reading
  40. Vegetarianism and Social Desirability Bias
  41. Abrams on Investing
  42. Krugman’s Graph on Food Stamps
  43. Trading With Foreigners: What’s In It For Us?
  44. The Chicago School: What Went Wrong
  45. Betting Therapy
  46. Misapplying Citizenism?
  47. Tyler’s Breakdown
  48. Robin Cook’s Mistaken Idea about Pooling Risk
  49. How Much Liberty Will We Sacrifice to Preserve Liberty?
  50. The Chicago School of Economics: What Went Wrong?
  51. Krugman: Where’s Your Evidence?
  52. Althaus on War and Informed Opinion
  53. What’s the Correlation Between War Enthusiasm and Income?
  54. The Roots of Signaling Denial
  55. Numeracy and Risk in Air Travel: A Personal Account
  56. Choice Architecture in the Cafeteria: An Experiment for Colleges and Universities
  57. The Mosquito Bite Analogy
  58. The Silence of the Bets
  59. Will autarchy save the Galapagos biodiversity?
  60. In Case of Revolution, Climb Into a Hole
  61. Statism for Freedom
  62. Limiting Unpaid Internships: One Unintended Consequence
  63. Europe’s problems won’t be solved by increased centralization
  64. Questions for Independence Day Evening
  65. A Bet I’d Hate to Win, A Bet Bryan Would Love to Lose
  66. Coase versus Pigou on Independence Day
  67. In praise of Over-Legislation (the essay)
  68. Henderson on Reinhardt on Goodman and Kotlikoff
  69. The Literature of Nonviolent Resistance and Civilian-Based Defense
  70. Quote of the Day: Alan Reynolds
  71. Economics Lessons from the Ministry of Silly Walks
  72. Market Distortions Are Lower Bounds
  73. Congratulations to Cato Legal Scholars
  74. Immigration: An Appeal to the Concerned Friends of Don Boudreaux
  75. New at the IHS Kosmos Blog: My Productivity Bookshelf
  76. Ben Powell on the Drug War
  77. Bets, Portfolios, and Belief Revelation
  78. Why Don’t Dying Firms Raise Prices?

June 2013

  1. Greed Is Tolerant
  2. Ken Minogue, RIP
  3. Tullock on Advertising
  4. Caplan-Ting Immigration Debate
  5. The Most Bourgeois Place on Earth?
  6. Creating Your Bubble: Tim Hawkins Channels Rolf Dobelli
  7. Better Mixed Economy: Henderson on Litan and Schramm
  8. The Present and the Future Both Need Bastiat
  9. Henderson on Kunruether et al
  10. Vindication by Events: A Few Questions for Scott Sumner
  11. Parental Economics and Risk: A Couple of Reading Suggestions
  12. Debate: Does Democracy Work?
  13. Atkinson and Krugman on Tax Rates
  14. You’re Not Pushing Paper Across A Desk. You’re Saving the World.
  15. Prison Sentences: Finally Some Good News
  16. Tabarrok on the Ethics of Immigration
  17. Happy Anniversary, Shannon Carden
  18. What is a ‘fiscal union’?
  19. Immigration: Anu Bradford’s Creative Suggestion
  20. Naik on Bastards and Stigma
  21. Deirdre McCloskey: Julian Simon Award Winner
  22. Defensive Education
  23. Uncertainty Can Go Both Ways
  24. Efficiency, Equity, and Ideology: What “Other Values” Matter?
  25. A Hawk-Dove Ideological Turing Test
  26. Does French ‘exception culturelle’ produce exceptional culture?
  27. Krugman’s Faulty Analogy
  28. Cato Unbound on Recycling: A Landfill is an Inventory
  29. Quotable
  30. Happy Birthday, David Carden
  31. Bastards and Stereotype Accuracy
  32. Which Books Should We Re-Read?
  33. Bastards, Immigrants, and Misanthropes
  34. Dambisa Moyo and the conquest of the US by China
  35. Happy Birthday, Taylor Grace Carden
  36. NSA Surveillance: More Hay and More “Hey!”
  37. U.S. Foreign Policy: The Swiss Perspective?
  38. How to Make Money: Go Where Others Don’t Want to and Save
  39. Mankiw’s Misleading Treatment of Public Goods
  40. Apple’s E-Books are Pro-Competitive
  41. NSA Surveillance: A Cost/Benefit Analysis
  42. Krugman on “Unproductive Finance”
  43. Why My Billion-Dollar Plan Won’t Work The Way I Want it To
  44. An Economist on Politicians on Immigration: New at AL.com
  45. How do you say “Austerity for Liberty” in Greek?
  46. Atlas Shrugged: My Two Favorite Passages
  47. The Effects of Education: Fishing Proverb Edition
  48. A fascinating short history of London’s cab regulations
  49. Will The Internet Destroy Marriage or Save It?
  50. BAAAA! Tremble Before the Mighty Sheepskin Effect
  51. What has (Local) Government Done to Our Ice Cream?
  52. Adding a Hat: Travel Writer, or, Meet me in Atlanta!
  53. Foreign Language Study: Should it Be Compulsory?
  54. What Does Education Signal? The Case of Edward Snowden
  55. When Government Cries Wolf
  56. Semi-Rivalry and Fiscal Externalities
  57. Free Markets to the Rescue
  58. DeLong on Skidelsky on Keynes
  59. Krugman: Beggar Thy (American) Neighbor
  60. Better Living Through Economics: Using Incentives to Get Fitter
  61. Your Sort Is Prohibited: A Licensing Dialog
  62. Feeling Good About Solar Panels
  63. Coming Attractions: What To Look For Next Week
  64. Daniel Kuehn Follows in George Stigler’s Footsteps
  65. Recent Reading: Fiction Edition
  66. Caplan-Ting Foreign Policy Debate
  67. Scenes from the Class Struggle in the Rent-Seeking Society: Advantage, Chick-fil-A
  68. The Fine Line Between Social Darwinism and Suicidal Compassion
  69. What Tyler Cowen Said
  70. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Experimental Edition
  71. IRS Speakers’ Fees
  72. I Don’t Have To
  73. Keynes v. Hayek: A Dialogue With Two of My Children
  74. Shall Europeans elect their President?
  75. Misanthropy by Numbers
  76. Robert Murphy on Bitcoin
  77. Feeds and Follows: My RSS Feeds and Twitter Follows
  78. Greg Mankiw’s Story
  79. Rothbard: How a Circle Becomes a Movement
  80. Glass 45 Percent Full
  81. Does liberty require polymaths?
  82. California’s Phony Budget Surplus

May 2013

  1. Superfreakonomics on Geo-Engineering
  2. Introducing Alberto Mingardi
  3. Reynolds on Krugman and DeLong
  4. Caveat Emptor: Will The Buyer Be Caught?
  5. The Subprime Crisis: Why Asymmetric Information Didn’t Save Us
  6. If I Had a Billion Dollars: My Answer to Bryan’s Question
  7. Solow on Friedman
  8. Monetizing Job Security
  9. Jason Furman at CEA
  10. Feedback Loops in Government
  11. There Is No Great Stagnation: Champions League Highlights Edition
  12. Are Rising Graduation Rates Good News? Two Theories, Four Answers
  13. Henderson on Milton Friedman
  14. Intelligence, Common Sense, and Subprime
  15. John Allison’s Nice Summary
  16. Coase on a Plane, Cont’d: How Loud Kids on Planes Are and Aren’t Like Factories
  17. Shorting Housing
  18. Conditional Insight, Unconditional Disaster
  19. Coase on a Plane: My Answer
  20. Consumer Surplus: An Application of the Concept
  21. Coase on a Plane, or, an Idea, Recycled
  22. The Flaw in Heyne, Boettke, and Prychitko
  23. Commuting, Chronic Stress, and Costs That Are Harder to See
  24. Tocqueville’s Tweeters
  25. Egoism, Libertarianism, Persuasion, and Worthy Arguments
  26. The Dirty Laundry of Instrumental Variables
  27. Find the Flaw
  28. Updating My RSS Feeds: What Am I Missing?
  29. “Craziness” and Immigration Policy: A Dialog with Brad Trun
  30. How to Spend a Billion Dollars: Best Answers
  31. Population Externality Bleg
  32. Values Every Scholar Should Adopt
  33. Congestion Externality Bleg
  34. Age and Common Sense
  35. Look Out the Window, or, Stop and Smell the Bacon
  36. Another Inflation Bet
  37. Linda Gorman on How ObamaCare Treats Middle Class
  38. Recent Reading and Coming Attractions: Stats, Stats, and More Stats!
  39. How to Spend A Billion Dollars
  40. Contrarian Virtue
  41. Kenneth Elzinga on Teaching Economics
  42. “Social Welfare Groups” Defined in the Process of Their Emergence
  43. You Will Know Them By Their Unpopular Views
  44. Recent Reading
  45. Kling on Clans, North on States
  46. “Most Economists?” Really?
  47. Ben Haller on My Global Warming Econometrics Bleg
  48. Global Warming Econometrics Bleg
  49. Gray Lady Down: Justin Gillis’s Misleading News Story
  50. Marty Nemko: Don’t Go to College
  51. In a Just World…
  52. Sanctions and Boycotts in an Interconnected World
  53. Facebook: So Long. Sort of.
  54. Rector, Poverty, and Immigration
  55. Hayek on Medical Marijuana
  56. Happy Hayek Day: Is it Investment? Is it Consumption?
  57. Owen, Sawhill, and “the” Return to Education
  58. Dwight Lee on Ebenezer Scrooge’s Morality
  59. Keynesian Bets: What’s Out There
  60. Adam Smith on the Public Choice of Foreign Intervention
  61. Keynesian Bets Bleg
  62. The Pyramid of Macroeconomic Insight and Virtue
  63. John Thacker on Vaccinations and the Sequester
  64. Eat Your Pizza, or, The Beginnings of a Dialogue with My Two-Year Old and Four-Year-Old About Macroeconomic Stability
  65. Chef Rudy’s Virtues Project
  66. My take on Reinhart and Rogoff
  67. A Natalist Provision
  68. Medicare Kills a Program
  69. May Day, Bourgeois Virtues, and Pictures of the Socialistic Future
  70. I Was a Teenage Misanthrope
  71. Smuggling in Values

April 2013

  1. The Hulk’s Handshakes and Optimal Monetary Policy
  2. A Charitable Parable
  3. The Evasion of Equity
  4. A Supererogatory Provision
  5. Budget Cuts Seem to Work
  6. Why Trailers Instead of Manufactured Homes?
  7. Open Borders in The Atlantic
  8. Tocqueville’s Trailers
  9. In the Land of Interest on Reserves the Interest Rate is an Instrument
  10. Public vs. Private Sector Compensation: A Case of Curious Controversy
  11. Contra Garett Jones: Interest Rates are NOT an Instrument
  12. The Federal Pay Scale: Inflated Yet Compressed
  13. Practical Monetary Policy and My Foolproof Plan to Win an Olympic Gold Medal
  14. Will ObamaCare Reduce the Number of Uninsured People?
  15. Talk this Morning: “More Immigrants, Please”
  16. The Grave Evil of Unemployment
  17. Bet on Euro: I Won
  18. James Buchanan on Writing
  19. Fictional Hillary Clinton and the Real Cost of Political Egalitarianism
  20. Can Expectations Save Communism?
  21. Bleg: Median Voter Theorem
  22. Boston: Centralization vs. Friedrich Hayek and Jane Jacobs
  23. Sundry Observations on Statistical Discrimination and Terrorism
  24. Friday Night Video: Shikha Dalmia on Unskilled Immigrants
  25. Better Living Through Statistics: Muslim Terrorists Edition
  26. Speech: The Perverse Economics of Sanctions
  27. ZMP, Morale, and Statistical Discrimination
  28. Sticky Price Keynesianism & Monetarism are ZMP Theories
  29. On Bubbles and the Benefit of the Doubt: An Easy Increase in Serenity
  30. What You Say When You Don’t Call an Applicant
  31. What You Say When You Throw an Application Away
  32. Physics Applied to Economics
  33. Starve the Beast v. The Ant and The Grasshopper: A Coda
  34. Immigration and Bubbles
  35. Proposition 65: When Government Cries Wolf
  36. Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy
  37. How I Found Well-Being in a Bubble World
  38. Make Your Own Bubble in 10 Easy Steps
  39. Proposition 65 and the Red Licorice Police
  40. AI and GE: Answers
  41. On Homeschoolery: A Bet, Revised
  42. The Effect of Intelligence on Job Performance is Intuitive
  43. Art’s Bet
  44. Is Econ a Mickey Mouse Major?
  45. Redistributing from Workers to Capitalists: Would Rational Workers Vote For It?
  46. “Portugual Mulls Paying Workers in T-Bills”
  47. Letters to Kim Jong-Un
  48. On The Effects of Homeschooling: A Bet
  49. Jared Bernstein Gets Efficiency Wrong
  50. Krugman Gets Hoover Wrong
  51. IQ and Hiring: Does the Law Matter?
  52. Worstall on Cyprus and Russians
  53. Acemoglu and Robinson on the Wealth of Nations
  54. International IQ Testing Bleg
  55. AI and GE
  56. Legality of Credentialism Bleg
  57. Blood and Expectations: The Case of the American Liquor Industry
  58. Henderson on Mulligan’s Redistribution Recession
  59. Crazy Equilibria: From Democracy to Anarcho-Capitalism
  60. Why Economics and Liberty?
  61. Introducing Art Carden
  62. Carden and Horwitz on Market Failure
  63. Major Premium

March 2013

  1. David Stockman Screeches
  2. Yglesias on Freedom in the 50 States
  3. Starve the Beast Mark II: Deficits, Debt, and Spendthrift Grasshoppers
  4. Hummel on Bernanke’s New Central Planning
  5. Tax Hikes and Spending Cuts: Friends Across Europe
  6. Three Laws of Major Mismatch
  7. Scott Winship on Inequality
  8. Policy Implications of the Marriage Premium
  9. Tax Hikes, then Spending Cuts: Not What “Starve the Beast” Predicted
  10. Career Day: The Life of an Econ Prof
  11. Vignettes from the Armen Alchian Memorial
  12. 9 Short Observations about the Marriage Premium
  13. Some Economics of Wal-Mart
  14. On Human Evil: Concrete Down the Drain Edition
  15. Armen Alchian Memorial
  16. Friday Night Video: Henderson on War for Oil
  17. The Duty to Give Away Everything You Don’t Need
  18. Corinne Sauer on U.S. Subsidies to Middle East
  19. Brick’s Insight on Childhood
  20. The Rights of the World’s Poor
  21. “Get Married and Stay Married”
  22. Was the Iraq War About Oil?
  23. Premia and Double Standards
  24. Immigration, the Minimum Wage, and Labor Demand Elasticity
  25. Assorted Tweets: Cyprus Speed Bankruptcy Edition
  26. The Hoover/Mellon Tax on Checks
  27. End Military Aid to Israel and Egypt and …
  28. Mises on Death Panels (Implicitly)
  29. Remember: Sticky-Wage Keynesianism is a Supply Side Theory
  30. Cowen on Immigration
  31. Scott Sumner on Real Causes of Business Cycles
  32. Friday Night Video: Henderson and De Rugy on Canada and France
  33. Yglesias on Narcissism
  34. Kuttner and Norquist on Taxes: The Republicans Won
  35. Inescapable Intuition
  36. If There’s No Inflation, Why are Prices Up So Much?
  37. Rand Paul’s Filibuster
  38. Designing Men vs. Spontaneous Order
  39. The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage
  40. Overturning the Soda Ban: One Small Blow for Freedom
  41. Thomas C. Leonard on Nudge
  42. Dr. Henderson in Africa
  43. Redistributing from Capitalists to Workers: An Impossibility Theorem
  44. How I Raise My Children
  45. Friday Night Video: Henderson on Economic Myths
  46. Mueller on Nuclear Proliferation: Thinking on the Margin
  47. Student Motivation: A Reply to Gelman
  48. TARP Bet Bleg
  49. Gelman the Education Optimist
  50. Bad Social Science: A Consequence of Consequentialism
  51. Highlights from Hummel’s Macro Class
  52. An Unwritten Minimum Grade Law Exists
  53. Bill Dickens vs. Me on Huemer
  54. Michael Barone’s Mistaken Prediction
  55. The Robber Barons: Neither Robbers Nor Barons
  56. Assorted Tweets: Minimum Grade Law Edition
  57. Christina Romer on the Minimum Wage
  58. The High Price of Doctors: A Disease of Regulation
  59. The Air Travel Revolution
  60. Signaling Rules: Today Hollywood, Tomorrow the World
  61. Alfred and Mary Paley Marshall: Depressions as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  62. Why Am I So Cheerful?
  63. The GiveWell-Clemens Brainstorm
  64. Garett Jones on the Supply of Doctors
  65. Tim Kane and Means-Testing

February 2013

  1. Hummel on Fed’s Billion-Dollar Losses
  2. Henderson on John Stossel Show
  3. Is Self-Assertion a Free Lunch?
  4. A Reason U.S. Doctors Earn More Than Europeans: Income Inequality
  5. Why Are Asians So Democratic? The Respect Motive in Action
  6. Respect for Authority: The Case of Canada
  7. Measurement Error and the Education Premium
  8. Should Cost/Benefit Analysis Consider Only Benefits?
  9. Economics and Fallibility
  10. Armen Alchian: Teacher
  11. Sequester: This is Supposed to be Scary?
  12. “Locally Blonde”
  13. Why Furloughs and Not Wage Cuts? A Test of the Slack Hypothesis
  14. “Low-Immigration, Pro-Immigrant” versus the Law of Return
  15. Henderson on Responsibility for Sequestration
  16. The Minimum Wage and Monopsony
  17. Bowles-Simpson: Don’t Fight the Focal Point
  18. Alchian Didn’t Do a Lot of Work?
  19. Sheepskin Effects in the General Social Survey
  20. How To Get a Government Spending Multiplier of 35
  21. Henderson on Alchian
  22. Some Evolutionary Food for Thought
  23. Barkley Rosser on Armen Alchian
  24. Armen Alchian, RIP
  25. Town Without Traffic Lights II
  26. Fiduciary Excuses
  27. Lord Acton on “Power Corrupts”
  28. Bigger Government Multipliers in Recessions: An Optical Illusion?
  29. Winship’s Numerate Insight on Growth
  30. Does Conflict Immigrate?
  31. Pacifism in 4 Easy Steps
  32. Open Borders in 4 Easy Steps
  33. Krugman and a Critic on the Minimum Wage
  34. Me at Students for Liberty 2013
  35. The Hagel Nomination: Can Free Will Change The Equilibrium?
  36. IGM on High-Skilled Immigration
  37. David Is Right, If I Understand Him Correctly
  38. Employers and Immigrants: Response to Bryan Caplan
  39. The Perks of Being Illegal
  40. Illegality, Minimum Wages, and Credible Commitment
  41. Assorted Tweets
  42. Is Illegality A Benefit?
  43. Must Default Be Avoided at All Costs?
  44. Collective Guilt: A Socratic Dialogue
  45. Why Have Kids? More on Last’s What To Expect When No One’s Expecting
  46. Capacity Utilization & Economic Growth: A Broken Relationship
  47. Open Borders and Personality Bleg
  48. Demographic Disaster? What’s Wrong With Jonathan Last’s What To Expect When No One’s Expecting
  49. Prince George County Government as Slave Driver
  50. Some Wisdom of Don Corleone
  51. How U.S. Drug Enforcement in Afghanistan Helped the Taliban
  52. Amazing Dan Klein
  53. Benefits Bleg
  54. Is That a Government Purchase or a Transfer Payment?
  55. The Feds’ Suit of S&P
  56. An Amazing Consensus among Economists: Not
  57. Krugman on Gains from Trade
  58. Your Big Break, If Any
  59. Nowrasteh on Guest Workers
  60. Government Hiring: An Axiomatic Stabilizer
  61. Dwight Lee on Socially Responsible Corporations
  62. The Problem of Political Authority: Huemer Replies to Your Question
  63. Big Break Theory
  64. College Athletes: Go on Strike!
  65. Me on Economists’ Ideological Divide
  66. ObamaCare: Two Ominous Signs
  67. Kling v. Huemer
  68. Marshmallow Bleg
  69. Wolfers on Economists’ Ideological Divide

January 2013

  1. Henderson on the Libertarian “Thing”
  2. How to Recover Your Stolen Car
  3. Wasteful Hiring: When Does It Cut Profits?
  4. Why Applicants Don’t Volunteer Their Test Scores: Abigail’s Insight
  5. The Problem of Political Authority: Huemer Takes Your Questions
  6. Economics Quote of the Week
  7. Seattle Gun Buyback Backfires
  8. Society of Lies
  9. Cowen on the Multiplier: Is it Really “Worth”?
  10. Making You Smarter
  11. Boettke on Living Economics
  12. Henderson on the Future of U.S. Politics
  13. Revealing Sentence on Higher Ed
  14. Sorrow and Anger
  15. Learning About the Economy: Statistics or Uncle-Asking?
  16. Travis Vanderbilt Kalanick
  17. Work Experience and Job Performance: A Few Lessons For Labor Economists From Industrial Psychology
  18. Government Hiring: Raising GDP by Definition
  19. Welfare as a Magnet for Immigration: Some Evidence
  20. Huemer’s Common-Sense Libertarianism
  21. The Thriving Middle Class
  22. When is a Spending Multiplier “Big”?
  23. Lefty’s Laffer Curve
  24. Acemoglu on Human Capital and Signaling
  25. Russ on Progress and Signaling
  26. The ObamaCare-Induced Shift to Part-Time Work
  27. The Conservative Missionary Redux: What Jonah Goldberg Should Have Said
  28. Acemoglu and Robinson on Global Warming
  29. What Will the Neighbors Say? How Signaling Ossifies Behavior
  30. Krugman Speaks Truth to Stiglitz
  31. Eli Dourado on the Mercatus Master’s Fellowship
  32. From the Archives: Comments on Huemer’s Book Draft
  33. Henderson on Blinder in Wall Street Journal
  34. Billie Holiday on Occupational Licensing
  35. Social Security and Time Horizons: Reply to Krugman
  36. Zero Price, Today Only: *Copyright Unbalanced*
  37. A Conversation With Michael Huemer
  38. Rockefeller’s Railroad Rebates
  39. Money for Morals
  40. The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer
  41. Great Moments in Cost Cutting: Rockefeller Edition
  42. The New York Times Wins Bryan’s Challenge
  43. Don’t Let Your Boss Hold You Back
  44. Will The End of Sleep Reduce Wages?
  45. Obama’s Mistake on Social Security
  46. Better Than Plowing
  47. How to Trust Government Data (or not)
  48. Travels of a T-Shirt
  49. Cronyism in D.C.
  50. Buchanan: Seeing With New Eyes
  51. Feeling vs. the Minimum Wage: A Hard-Headed Assessment
  52. Further Notes on James Buchanan
  53. Feeling vs. the Minimum Wage
  54. James M. Buchanan, RIP
  55. Americans Used To Move A Lot
  56. Marriage, Kids, and Party
  57. IHS Fellowships
  58. Henderson on Rich-Hunt
  59. Two Soul-Searching Questions
  60. Wage Rigidity in Of Human Bondage
  61. Not from The Onion, Affordable Care Act Edition
  62. Horwitz on Hoover’s Economic Policies
  63. Murphy on Fiscal Austerity and Higher Tax Rates
  64. Pax Libertaria
  65. Henderson on Red Plenty
  66. Women, Liberty, Marketing, and Social Science
  67. Great Moments in Public Choice: LBJ on Paul Douglas
  68. Human Capital, Signaling, and Ability Bias for X: A Guest Post by Vipul Naik
  69. Finance Regulations to Watch in 2013: International Speed Bankruptcy & U.S. Crowdfunding
  70. Thoughts on the Latest Tax Bill
  71. If This Be Aspergers
  72. My Path to Open Borders
  73. How I Was Wrong About Government Debt
  74. Constitutions Matter: The Case of Massachusetts
  75. Democracy in Singapore
  76. Hummel on Moss on Limited Liability

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