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December 2016

  1. Gary Cohn on the Chinese currency
  2. Covenants without the Sword?
  3. Reading Bastiat’s Economic Sophism
  4. Scott Alexander Calls Out the New York Times
  5. Growth, or jobs for Americans?
  6. Alan Blinder’s Bad Article
  7. Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur?
  8. Chemo For Cats
  9. Never reason from an exchange rate change
  10. Is Tyler Cowen’s Point Well Known?
  11. Farewell, Thomas Sowell
  12. I Dream of Repentance
  13. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on War and Presidential Success
  14. Charitable Arbitrage
  15. The Texas magnet
  16. The Economics of Christmas Trees
  17. The Confusion about Inequality and Poverty
  18. Finally Some Good News from Paul Krugman
  19. Peter Robinson Interviews Kellyanne Conway
  20. Economics is held in low repute
  21. The Benefits of International Trade
  22. Native American Economics
  23. Easy Answer All My Students Should Know
  24. Significant Links
  25. Did monetary offset cause the Great Recession?
  26. Nixon’s Wage and Price Controls
  27. Orange Rocks and the Minimum Wage
  28. Henderson on Oge’s CAFE
  29. India’s money shortage
  30. Henderson on Latest Love Canal Book
  31. What do markets tell us about US Presidents?
  32. Mallaby on Greenspan on antitrust
  33. Hooper and Henderson on Patrick Frank
  34. Many a Slip
  35. National Origin as Nurture Effect
  36. Nick Rowe on John Cochrane’s Neo-Fisherian model
  37. The Spoils of War
  38. Easy Question Almost All My Public Choice Students Miss
  39. Free Trade for the Tillerson
  40. Ralph Raico, RIP
  41. The Fed should now be aiming for below 2% inflation
  42. Ralph Raico, RIP
  43. Why Trump’s policies will not signficantly boost aggregate demand
  44. Kahan and the Politically Motivated Reasoning Paradigm
  45. Henderson on Scott Pruitt
  46. Automation and trade
  47. Trump’s Picks versus Reagan’s
  48. An open letter to America’s CEOs
  49. How to Get Lower Drug Prices
  50. What are the implications of higher interest rates?
  51. Conversion: The Quantity/Quality Trade-off
  52. Europe has a massive and growing trade surplus, and is hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs
  53. Three Themes of the Niskanen Center
  54. Automation destroyed 20 million manufacturing jobs
  55. Teaching the Minimum Wage
  56. How I Got Culture
  57. What caused the 1974 recession?
  58. Race, Eugenics, and the Dark Side of Capitalism
  59. Should Arthur Burns be rehabilitated?
  60. Henderson on Extending Hayek’s Insight
  61. The Dumbest Thing Batman Ever Said
  62. The Carrier scandal
  63. On the Italian referendum
  64. Speech Tomorrow at San Jose State University
  65. Who will save China’s rust belt?
  66. Reflections on my Latest RT Appearance
  67. The Italian referendum
  68. Friday Night Video: Cuba, Sanctions, Biting Cats, and Trump
  69. What kind of inflation hurts the public?
  70. Borjas, Ideology, and #ForeignLivesMatter
  71. Good News on Repealing Obamacare: The Woodwork Effect

November 2016

  1. Ten Points on the Wrong Side of History
  2. Primitive cultures need a dose of utilitarianism
  3. Did John Allison just endorse NGDP targeting?
  4. In Praise of Ineffective Politicians
  5. Why I’m Not Freaking Out
  6. How Castro is Like the Minimum Wage
  7. Capitalism has a PR problem
  8. Fidel Castro’s Monstrous Behavior
  9. My Writing Tutor: Dan Seligman
  10. Giving Thanks
  11. The third domino?
  12. Trump Bets: One Actual, Ten Potential
  13. If the Angry Could Hear What the Calm Do Not Say
  14. Mercantilism Dies Hard
  15. In defense of rational expectations models
  16. Noah Smith on the Islamic Civil War
  17. Xenophobia and Canada
  18. Larry Summers’s Perspective
  19. Janet Yellen confirms much of what I’ve been saying about fiscal stimulus
  20. Repealing Regulations
  21. Trump, Krugman and the long run
  22. Memory of Credibility
  23. Eichengreen on Market Failure
  24. Dr. Strangelove at the Fed
  25. Breaking Conformity Equilibria: The Case of Mormon Polygamy
  26. Tyler Cowen on fiscal stimulus
  27. The Silent Suffering of the Non-Neurotic
  28. Lake Wobegon Keynesianism
  29. The Excellent and Admirable Alex Tabarrok
  30. You always fail . . . until you succeed
  31. Trump on Obamacare
  32. The Case for Non-Compete Agreements
  33. India’s Assault on Money
  34. Implications of Trump for monetary policy?
  35. Wisdom and Courage from Arnold Kling
  36. The morning after
  37. I Win All My Election Bets
  38. Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of Mind
  39. Christina Romer on Monopsony in U.S. Labor Markets
  40. Final thoughts before the election
  41. Robert P. Murphy on Pitfalls in GDP Accounting
  42. One Last Election Bet
  43. Why the Electoral College Will Not be Abolished
  44. Should the Fed give workers a raise? No
  45. The CEA’s Mixed Thinking on Labor Market Monopsony, Part IV
  46. My Intellectual Insurance Policy
  47. Central bankers: They know not their own strength
  48. Are Anti-Dumping Tariffs Intelligent?
  49. The Divisiveness of Cohesion
  50. Hooray For Our Side
  51. Legal in some states, life imprisonment in others
  52. The Full Hanson-Caplan Robot Debate
  53. Economists Against Trump
  54. Are Keynesians trying to bring back the Real Bills Doctrine?
  55. Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet: A Biography with Depth
  56. Semi-Private Production of National Defense
  57. Your tactical advice should not reflect your preferred strategy

October 2016

  1. The CEA’s Mixed Thinking on Labor Market Monopsony, Part III
  2. The zero bound isn’t interest rate pegging
  3. What do criminal records tell us about Adam Smith and the Industrial Revolution?
  4. Japan refutes old Keynesianism
  5. AT&T, Time-Warner and the end of competition
  6. The CEA’s Mixed Thinking on Labor Market Monopsony, Part II
  7. Is the data “rigged”?
  8. Laureate Lessons for Education
  9. The CEA’s Mixed Thinking on Labor Market Monopsony, Part I
  10. Yet Another Reply to Huemer on the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  11. Robert Tollison, RIP
  12. Cuba Libre?
  13. 21st century Vikings
  14. Does Stress Over Politics Mean You Need to Get a Life?
  15. Robert Tollison, 1942-2016: We’re All Part of the Equilibrium
  16. Elections Are Surveys: The Case of AIP
  17. Saving cannot go “into” existing assets
  18. Canada Can’t Dodge Two Bullets
  19. The WSJ’s odd critique of the Fed
  20. The Huemer Graph
  21. Two approaches to macroeconomics
  22. Krugman’s Strange View About Planning for the Future
  23. Bio of Paul Krugman
  24. How the EMH can reduce government spending, taxes, and inequality
  25. I Want to Know How the Transporter Works
  26. What Has Congress Ever Done for Us?
  27. Is the Fed a firefighter or an arsonist?
  28. Huemer’s “Answer to Searle on the Mind-Body Problem”
  29. Against Robotic Panic
  30. One Congressman Can Sometimes Do a Lot, Part II
  31. Global warming phonies
  32. One Congressman Can Sometimes Do a Lot, Part I
  33. Does AD influence AS?
  34. How the Free Market Breaks Down Discrimination
  35. The Pride of Homeschooling
  36. Consumer Surplus and the Presidential Election
  37. Why America can run trade deficits forever
  38. Open market operations vs. helicopter drops
  39. Theresa May’s anti-libertarian turn
  40. Hanson-Caplan Robot Debate this Monday in NYC
  41. Huemer Seminar at GMU – MONDAY!
  42. Further Reply to Huemer on the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  43. Deltas
  44. Why it’s hard to give good advice to the Fed
  45. The Most Important Economic Idea
  46. Inequality, Trade, and Robin Hood
  47. What Some People Like About Donald Trump
  48. Huemer Replies on the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  49. Henderson Review of a Peter Navarro Book
  50. Why it’s so hard to figure out what central banks are doing
  51. A Great Paragraph from Arnold Kling
  52. Henderson on the 2016 Nobel Prize Winners Hart and Holmstrom
  53. Reply to Huemer on Ethical Treatment of Animals (including Bugs)
  54. My Writing Tutor: Dan Seligman
  55. Are robots taking our jobs?
  56. Schneider’s The Deadly Sins
  57. Weekend Grab Bag
  58. The myth of Italian instability
  59. Americans are becoming increasing supportive of trade and immigration
  60. Five Victims of Joseph Stalin
  61. Non-materialistic millennials and the Great Stagnation
  62. Weapons of Math Destruction
  63. Do we need more antitrust?
  64. Minogue on the Accountability Flip
  65. Michigan State Debate
  66. All Roads Lead to Open Borders: A Caplan/Weinersmith Collaboration
  67. A Nobel Prediction
  68. Brexit: What I got wrong, and what is still uncertain
  69. The New York Times Overpaid
  70. Huemer on Ethical Treatment of Animals (Including Bugs)
  71. The Case for Allowing Cash
  72. Infrastructure is not fiscal policy
  73. Bugs
  74. In defense of Johnson’s brain freeze
  75. Look past the labels
  76. Moving Across My Monitor

September 2016

  1. The Boston Globe’s Case is Even Worse than Scott Sumner Says
  2. Missing moods at the Boston Globe
  3. Economic Growth and the Policy Debate
  4. Angelo Codevilla on Freedom of Association
  5. Charles L. Schultze RIP
  6. The Biggest Loser: Lester Holt
  7. Who is Peter Navarro?
  8. Apolitical Reasons to Hate Politics
  9. Bernanke on the Bank of Japan
  10. Binding Arbitration: The Radical Implications
  11. Both Barrels Blazing? What would that even look like?
  12. The U.S. Postwar Miracle
  13. Can the economy handle a 20% fiscal contraction (at near zero interest rates?)
  14. Weekend Grab Bag
  15. The Humanity of McDonald’s
  16. Paul Romer on Paul Volcker
  17. Epstein on the EU and Apple
  18. A Community Comes Together
  19. Democracy: Trust the system, not the leaders
  20. Incentives and Get Out the Vote
  21. The oil price collapse: Tax cut or reallocation?
  22. The Case for Voting
  23. Archiving, Preservation, and History: Eric Wakin on EconTalk
  24. Globalization is not the problem, it’s the solution
  25. Value-Added and Social Desirability Bias
  26. Can U.S. Presidents Much Affect the U.S. Economy?
  27. The One Way Conservative Students Are More Libertarian Than Libertarian Students
  28. Balance Sheet Anxiety (What almost everyone gets wrong)
  29. Statistical Significance is Not the Same as Economic Significance
  30. The Corruption of Politics
  31. For the Separation of Stadium and State
  32. GMU’s Visionary
  33. The Fed is planning for failure
  34. Jonathan Lipow on the Role of Government
  35. Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation: #TWET
  36. The Dynamics of Poverty
  37. Truman Bewley Comes to GMU
  38. The Secret Stimulus: Another fiscal failure?
  39. My Case for Activism
  40. In monetary policy, 8k peaks are easier to climb than 7k peaks
  41. Why I Don’t Vote: The Honest Truth
  42. Good Economics News from Harvard
  43. From the Cutting Room Floor: The Case Against Education
  44. Ryan Avent asks some very good questions
  45. The Conard Line on the Trade Deficit
  46. Let Them In
  47. Brexit is not about Britain, #2
  48. Is “neoliberalism” a menace to human rights?
  49. The Ultra-Selective Rationality of Politicians
  50. The FDA’s Power Grab
  51. #TWET: Terry Moe on the Constitution
  52. Scott Alexander IS an Economist
  53. Solve for This Equilibrium
  54. Response to Professor Stephen Gordon
  55. My paper at the monetary rules conference
  56. Betting Justice
  57. Matt Welch on the Washington Post’s Deficient Apology
  58. How would we know if wages were sticky?
  59. Helicopter Parenting and Moral Causation
  60. Honor Laborers
  61. The interest rate fallacy
  62. Reply to Kocherlakota
  63. No, Ben Bernanke, He Wasn’t
  64. Brexit uncertainty and Brexit itself
  65. P.J. O’Rourke on Math
  66. What would a principled defense of political correctness look like?
  67. Apple’s principled defense
  68. The Math Myth

August 2016

  1. John Kerry, Anti-Terrorist
  2. #TWET: Why the Law is so Perverse
  3. The Economics of Paid Parental Leave
  4. Community Response to Crises
  5. Animal Farm in Reverse
  6. Monetary offset: Why is it so difficult to understand?
  7. The Nationalization of U.S. Mortgages
  8. Italy’s cultural voucher for 18 year olds
  9. Closing Comments on Captain Fantastic
  10. Limbaugh Comes Around on Immigration Policy
  11. Henderson on VAT on The Financial Exchange (WRKO Boston)
  12. Commentary on Captain Fantastic
  13. Sunday Reading
  14. The Monster in the Mirror
  15. Low interest rates: They are not easy money, and they’re here to stay
  16. NGDP targeting in Australia?
  17. Neurotic Politics
  18. Metzger on Headline Dismay Minimization
  19. #TWET…Slavery & Racism
  20. The Fall 2016 Public Choice Center Seminar Series
  21. The Twenty-Niners
  22. Tyler Cowen on NGDP targeting
  23. Equilibrium and Foresight
  24. Headline Dismay Minimization
  25. An ITT I Cannot Pass
  26. Huemer’s “Relativism and Tyranny”
  27. Do Steps Toward Freedom Create Net Benefits?
  28. Disputes don’t get resolved, they get swept under the rug
  29. Rio Reality Check
  30. Social Security Reformer
  31. The intellectual as a celebrity
  32. The Immigration/Labor Demand Elasticity Puzzle
  33. Lester versus DiMicco on NAFTA
  34. Saving is not a problem
  35. Labor Demand Elasticity: Boredom is Thoughtless
  36. #TWET…But What If We’re Wrong?
  37. Open Borders Philanthropy Bleg
  38. The new “voodoo”
  39. Working Around FDA Regulation
  40. Murder Equivalents
  41. The Case for Low-Income Housing
  42. The Ugly Ugly FDA’s Cartel Enforcement
  43. The Perverse Death/Estate Tax
  44. Why the monetary policy pessimism?
  45. Weekend Wanderings
  46. Isn’t industrial policy an ideology too?
  47. Common Arguments Against Immigration
  48. Words have fuzzy meanings–that’s good
  49. What I Fail to Realize
  50. My First Seven Jobs
  51. Fama versus Thaler
  52. Power corrupts…
  53. Johnson Bet
  54. Why the new old Keynesians are wrong about trade
  55. The Huemer-Caplan Exchange
  56. Casey Mulligan Visits Cuba
  57. The Fed is caught in a vise
  58. Is TOMS Different?
  59. Friday Night Video: Ben Powell on Sweatshops
  60. Obama: Stop Me Before I Regulate Again
  61. Weekend Wanderings
  62. A Carbon Tax Is Not a Price
  63. Thomas Schelling Bio
  64. “Fund” and games with fiscal policy
  65. Paid Parental Leave: No Free Lunch
  66. I now consider myself to be a Libertarian
  67. Huemer’s Letter to Brian Doherty
  68. Harry Markowitz on Armen Alchian
  69. The Reps’ and Dems’ Utter Unseriousness About the Major Long-Term Economic Issue
  70. What if everything doesn’t go as expected?
  71. Is It Really Conscious?
  72. It’s Not Just About the Money
  73. Tolstoy, Hypocrisy, and Puritanism

July 2016

  1. Econgirl on Compensation for Trade Losses
  2. The new political divide
  3. Boris Johnson, consistency and punditry in politics
  4. Forced Labor in Venezuela
  5. Reasoning from a price change, example #213
  6. Mao’s Murderousness
  7. Huemer’s “On Liberty and Philosophy”
  8. Risk of Nuclear War
  9. Pro and Contra Gauti Eggertsson
  10. The Economist and Star Trek Beyond
  11. Robin’s Turing Test
  12. Tyler Cowen on low interest rates
  13. Noah Smith on Milton Friedman
  14. Jeff Bezos on innovation
  15. The Science of Homeschooling
  16. Remorse
  17. A Cheap Economist Buys Lunch
  18. Cosmopolitans and False Consciousness
  19. Incentives Matter for Politicians Too
  20. Immigrants and Everest
  21. Highs and Lows of the Republican Convention
  22. The Fed’s psyche
  23. Turkey’s Failed Coup
  24. A Numerate Sermon on Terrorism
  25. Peter Thiel on Foreign Policy
  26. Noah Smith and Zachary David refute the EMH
  27. I Win My Cruz Bet with Steve Pearlstein
  28. The Hyperbole of Backlash
  29. Cleveland Rocks?
  30. A Badly Misleading Title
  31. Free, good and happy
  32. 7th Grade: The Homeschooling Experience
  33. Uncertain about uncertainty
  34. Slavery in the Age of Em
  35. Zachary David on NGDP futures targeting
  36. Observations from Europe
  37. Decentralization in Turkey
  38. The costs of inflation and recession
  39. Midweek Musings
  40. The Irish miracle
  41. Hayek’s Views on Emergence
  42. Don’t Worry About Canada Becoming a ‘Petrostate’
  43. Great Moments in Sunk Cost
  44. The Signs of Signaling
  45. Utilitarianism as a lodestar (Constructive Criticism for Caplan)
  46. Media Freedom, Markets, and Political Change
  47. Efficiency is not just a good idea, it’s the only ethical policy
  48. All the Shah’s Men
  49. Peter Conti-Brown on the Fed
  50. Incentives on Set
  51. Harold James on globalisation and migrants
  52. The second domino
  53. “The Credit Card Companies Were There for Me”
  54. Aggregate demand is not consumption
  55. Robert Murphy on Economic Calculation
  56. Krugman on monetary offset and China trade
  57. Is Education Good for the Soul?
  58. Weekend Grab Bag
  59. Tom Friedman on Brexit and Trump
  60. Anthony de Jasay on Pope Francis
  61. Supply and demand: Handle with care
  62. A Lesson in Opportunity Cost

June 2016

  1. It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . and the FTSE100 feels fine
  2. Some Random Reading
  3. Could a successful Brexit wreck the eurozone?
  4. Mark Blaug Student Essay Competition
  5. Tom Friedman on Thank You for Being Late
  6. Fantasy Granted (Sorta)
  7. After Brexit – why not unilateral free trade?
  8. The pound depreciated by 10%. What does that mean?
  9. Is the Limit on Nuclear Liability a Subsidy?
  10. Outline for Poverty: Who To Blame
  11. Finding Out the Implications of the Brexit Vote
  12. Sumnerian luck and monetary reform
  13. Weekend Grab Bag
  14. Is Brexit a Monetary Shock?
  15. One Cost of the Drug War
  16. Brexit is not about Britain
  17. Hanson’s Predictions: A 5-Page Age of Em Robustness Test
  18. Brexit Bet Comment
  19. A few thoughts in the immediate aftermath of Brexit
  20. Bob Murphy reviews The Midas Paradox
  21. Big Day for Britain
  22. Ancestry, Long-Run Growth, and Population-Weighting
  23. Sports Outcomes and Randomness
  24. Is the Brexit referendum an “abuse of democracy”?
  25. Dictating Contract Terms Limits Bargaining Power
  26. Was Chernobyl the best thing that ever happened to Europe’s environment?
  27. Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?
  28. Bastiat Extended
  29. Cross-Country Regressions and Population Weighting
  30. Right wing doesn’t mean pro-free market
  31. Great Data but Disappointing Economics
  32. Italy’s Renzi to tinker with retirement age
  33. Henderson on Reich’s Saving Capitalism
  34. The Case for a Basic Land Guarantee
  35. Just how influential is the USA?
  36. Schneiderman as Lebron, Kazman as Ayesha
  37. Three ways to do a UBI: None are feasible
  38. Brennan Admits Unintended Consequences of U.S. Intervention
  39. My Answers for Robin
  40. Pre-Brexit Bet Clarification
  41. The Wall Street Journal’s Innumeracy
  42. Neoliberalism: There is no alternative
  43. Response to a Regular Reader about Illegal Prostitution
  44. Deregulation, Voodoo, and Krugman
  45. What to Do about London Housing
  46. 3 Answers from Robin
  47. Misallocation under Rent Control
  48. 3 Questions for Robin
  49. The Age of Em: Reply to Robin
  50. Reply to Jerry O’Driscoll
  51. The Left, Greece, and The Big Lie
  52. Cornucopia
  53. Robin Hanson’s The Age of Em: A Succinct Assessment
  54. Rushkoff’s nostalgia
  55. Some initial thoughts on banking reform
  56. Pluralism and Civil Society
  57. Does QE reduce the public debt burden?
  58. Trump’s Trade Fallacies
  59. We, Cheap Pencils
  60. Margaret Sullivan’s Hilarious Piece on Trump
  61. Towards a descriptive use of the term “national socialism”?
  62. What’s Wrong in Robin Hanson’s The Age of Em
  63. Why are NYT editorials so staggeringly bad?
  64. In Praise of Debt
  65. Regret and the Status Quo
  66. Yay, Switzerland!
  67. Uber Is Even More Valuable Abroad
  68. Which direction for macro?
  69. What Does Tyler Cowen Mean by Freely?
  70. The Slippery Slope Not Taken
  71. Slippery slope? Let’s hope so
  72. Cash for Health Care
  73. What’s Right in Robin Hanson’s The Age of Em
  74. Jimmy Carter’s Unpersuasive Case Against Legalizing Prostitution
  75. Chuck Norris vs Communism
  76. The infrastructure illusion
  77. Kibbe on Venezuela for Millenials
  78. Exclusion: The Uncanny Moral Valley

May 2016

  1. It’s hard to raise a lot of tax revenue
  2. Ozimek on Hanauer
  3. Robert Murphy on Voting
  4. Random thoughts on globalization
  5. Goldberg on McCloskey and Spencer
  6. Americans, on Average, Gain Big from Trade with China
  7. Why I Think I Win My Bets
  8. Why Bryan Caplan almost always wins his bets
  9. My Response to Scott Sumner
  10. Migration and Welfare in Maoist China
  11. You’re not special
  12. Carl Menger 2016 Essay Contest
  13. To Vote or Not to Vote?
  14. Arguments from the Exit Side of Brexit
  15. An Economist’s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy
  16. Why most regulations are harmful
  17. Must a Business Serve the Whole Public?
  18. Euroteach
  19. Krugman’s Orwellian Language: Less Bargaining Power is More
  20. The rich heart of Europe
  21. My Daughter the Juror
  22. Did Global Warming Help Cause California’s Drought?
  23. What do “experts” say about trade?
  24. Multinationals Are Well-Managed in All Countries
  25. Morley Safer, RIP
  26. Why Bernie Doesn’t Quit: Public Choice 101
  27. We’re Number 10! We’re Number 10!
  28. Did Russia avoid high unemployment with NGDP targeting?
  29. A Story of Signaling
  30. Price Controls and Economic Literacy: Colonial Edition
  31. Is Drug Trafficking Inherently Violent?
  32. The alt-right’s demographic nightmare
  33. Vote Buying and Political Business Cycles
  34. Don’t Confuse Government Support with Charity
  35. Don’t solve problems, stop causing them
  36. Prices on everything, please
  37. Friday Night Video: Howard Root Fights a Criminal Charge and Wins
  38. An Economist’s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy
  39. Hillary Clinton on Fed structure
  40. The Specter of Open Borders
  41. Consols Contra the Liquidity Trap
  42. The invisible hyperinflation monster (it’s real)
  43. Supply Management or Cartel Enforcement?
  44. Emigration and Revolution
  45. Munger on Division of Labor
  46. Was Hawtrey more Keynesian than Keynes?
  47. David Bowie, Bourgeois Hero?
  48. The Observational/RCT Correlation
  49. Fewer Judges, More Justice
  50. Dementia, Antihistamines, and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  51. Choose for Yourself, Not Others
  52. Two Nobel Prize winners, 18 years apart
  53. Happy Birthday, F. A. Hayek!
  54. Great Moments in Arguing: Lindsey Graham Edition
  55. Camille Paglia on making a career in ideas
  56. What If Donald Trump Isn’t All That Different?
  57. Against Brexit
  58. The Value of History
  59. Public Choice in Foreign Policy
  60. Correlation versus Causation
  61. Lip Service
  62. The Keynesian Model is not a Big Government or Small Government Model
  63. The Keynesian model is not a “big government” model
  64. The End of British Coal
  65. Lucas on Keynes and “spending flows”
  66. Exploring the Place Premium
  67. Victims of Communism Day
  68. Anger B&B
  69. Japan’s catastrophic yen-quake
  70. What the Primaries Mean
  71. More from Lester Thurow

April 2016

  1. The Uberization of Banking
  2. The Real Adam Smith
  3. A new study supports The Midas Paradox
  4. Zywicki on Debt
  5. The End of Doom and Cost-Benefit Methodology
  6. Incomes, Spending, and Saving
  7. Once again, the Fed was wrong
  8. Vargas Llosa on populism and perfectionism
  9. Global Warming, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and The End of Doom
  10. Does Tesla offer an end run around bad regulations?
  11. Early American Immigrants
  12. Two Alienated Questions
  13. Cordato on Bathrooms and State
  14. Economic theory, but only when it’s convenient
  15. Hooper and Henderson on Drug Prices
  16. Taxing the Rich: Strange Hope for Liberty
  17. Chrysler’s Disgusting Ad
  18. Education: Free Matters
  19. Market monetarism and market macroeconomics
  20. Frequently Insightful but Often Misleading
  21. Market urbanism in Houston
  22. Mea Culpa on Fed and Interest Rates
  23. The Case Against a Basic Income Guarantee
  24. The Diction of Social Desirability Bias
  25. Keep it simple, and pay attention to the key stylized facts
  26. Selgin on Money
  27. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Behavioral Public Choice
  28. It’s NGDP growth expectations that matter, not inflation expectations
  29. Property Rights Create Harmony
  30. Against Trolling
  31. What’s the matter with western Virginia?
  32. Student Analysis of Bernie Sanders’ Economic Proposals
  33. My Complete Bet Inventory: 2016 Edition
  34. Bill Gates: Tax Poor People More
  35. A tale of two city-states
  36. Barbara Anderson: Learning from Children’s Books
  37. Forget forecasting, let’s first shoot for nowcasting
  38. Lester Thurow, RIP
  39. Adam Smith on Sincerity and Political Rhetoric
  40. How government worsened inequality by ignoring the EMH
  41. The Welfare State and Taxes Are Bad, Mmkay
  42. Milton Friedman on Segregation
  43. Biased Behavioral Econ
  44. Barbara Anderson, RIP
  45. Robert Frank Fails to Connect the Dots
  46. Please don’t pay me to research tax loopholes
  47. Moneyball
  48. Updated Bet Inventory Bleg
  49. The “cost” of sloppy thinking
  50. Inform Me
  51. Message to Michael: There’s No Tooth Fairy
  52. David Beckworth has a new podcast series
  53. School Is to Submit: My Critique
  54. Don’t Let the IRS Ruin Your Day
  55. Does President Obama have wealth stashed away in one of the world’s most secretive tax havens?
  56. The politics of Batman vs Superman
  57. Ungag Expertise
  58. Hummel on Lowenstein and the Fed
  59. How to tell if you are a modern progressive
  60. Nationalists are not utilitarians
  61. Autism and the iPad
  62. Naik on Credentialism and Immigration
  63. Implicit Advice from a Nine-Year Old
  64. The First Great Moderation
  65. Approaching Infinity by Michael Huemer
  66. Boudreaux on Prosperity Pools
  67. Vietnam War Draft Resistance: Huemer Worked
  68. Grossman on NGDP shocks as policy indicators
  69. Does Science Need Common Sense?
  70. Take That, Madame Secretary
  71. Extreme outliers: How meaningful are they?
  72. Buyer Licencing of Illegal Drugs
  73. “Visible people” in human history
  74. What’s so Great about Free Trade? Lots
  75. Two Terror Graphs

March 2016

  1. The Devastating $15 Minimum Wage: Don’t “Experiment” on Non-Volunteers
  2. Lake Wobegon Keynesians
  3. The Case Against Education: Forthcoming from Princeton University Press
  4. So Far: My Response on Unfriendly AI
  5. Obamacare Spent A Lot to Get More Coverage
  6. A little bit pregnant
  7. Booth on the ethics of economic preaching
  8. So Far: Unfriendly AI Edition
  9. Unintended, but Predictable, Consequence #262
  10. Bernanke on monetary policy options
  11. To Address the Top One Percent, Allow Competition
  12. Saturday Afternoon Video
  13. Tibor Machan RIP
  14. Don’t try to normalize interest rates
  15. So Far
  16. Does anything matter? (And what would Pascal do?)
  17. Live Below Your Means
  18. Kudos to Obama
  19. Liberty Mutual: Pay More Now Instead of Later
  20. Get a Compound
  21. Henry Ford versus Henry Royce
  22. Don’t root for (or against) countries, policies, models, etc.
  23. Piketty on Top Marginal Tax Rates
  24. Borjas Concludes that Male Illegal Aliens Come Here to Work
  25. My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right, 2016 Edition
  26. Is economics more “scientific” than science?
  27. GDP Deflator vs. Consumer Price Index
  28. Socialism is harder than it looks
  29. The Freedom-Loving Case for Open Borders
  30. Celebrating Immigration
  31. Kocherlakota on the inflation outlook
  32. Retroactive Krikorianism
  33. Switzerland’s Vollgeld Initiative
  34. The Glorious Lasting Accidental Liberalization
  35. Where Did the $110 Billion Go?
  36. How Open Borders Will Win, If It Wins
  37. The media’s blind spot: Negative IOR
  38. Herbert H Posen and Franklin D Blanchard
  39. Two dubious ideas
  40. The Microaggressions of Immigration
  41. Kudos to Brad DeLong
  42. Why don’t we see big NGDP crashes any longer?
  43. Obama Pulls a Cheney
  44. Innovative bureaucracies?
  45. Academic Conservatives and Survivor Bias
  46. Jerry Taylor’s Sleight of Hand on Freedom of Association
  47. The year of thinking dangerously
  48. Playing the Trump card: Why do economists enjoy trashing their profession?
  49. RIP Sergio Ricossa, lonely voice for freedom in Italian academia
  50. From the Archives: Knight on Robbins (1934)
  51. Trade with China Reduced Domestic Inequality
  52. How Reforms Have Made Donald Trump Possible
  53. The Emperor repeatedly forgets his clothes
  54. Hammock on the Chicken Tax and Other Tariffs
  55. Libertarianism Against the Welfare State: A Refresher
  56. Krugman’s confusing argument for more infrastructure spending
  57. Kleiman on Trade and Taxes
  58. Is China trade inflationary?
  59. Banning the Benjamin Would Reduce Freedom
  60. Larry Summers’s Anti-Trump Case In a Vacuum
  61. Warren Buffett, out of sample
  62. Wishful Thinking and Unintended Consequences
  63. Myth of the Rational Voter 2016

February 2016

  1. Henderson on the Case Against a VAT
  2. Means-Testing Social Security: The Cohen-Friedman Debate, II
  3. Why Minimum Wages Can Take Time to Destroy Jobs
  4. Autor, Dorn, and Hanson on the China Shock
  5. Cash and freedom
  6. If you believe in bubbles, then why are you a libertarian?
  7. Is There Objective Truth?
  8. Some Economics of Tipping and Take Away
  9. Upcoming Events
  10. Highlights from Nate Silver Interview
  11. EMH update
  12. EconLog Reading Club Round-Up: Ancestry and Long-Run Growth
  13. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: My AMA Answers
  14. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Ask Me Anything
  15. Brad DeLong’s Distorted View of Wealth
  16. Congratulations to the Free State Movement
  17. Teaching to the Test Bleg
  18. I Win My Bush-Trump Bet with Tim Kane
  19. Uber for welfare?
  20. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Concluding Thoughts
  21. The Trump and Bush Phenomena
  22. Oil Prices are Complicated
  23. Drug overdose deaths: It’s not just economics
  24. Adam Smith on Why Patents Are Preferable to Prizes
  25. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Chanda Comments
  26. Prove-Me-Wrong Prizes
  27. Real and monetary shocks, a numerical example
  28. The Question I Didn’t Ask Nate Silver
  29. Sheri Pym Favors Involuntary Servitude
  30. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Chanda, Cook, and Putterman
  31. Interest rate pessimism
  32. Oil Economics
  33. On Meddling
  34. Praise: Substitution versus Income Effects
  35. Hopeless Excuses
  36. Is David Brooks Right about Obama?
  37. Trevor Burrus on Justice Scalia
  38. Milton Friedman on Trumbo
  39. Yudkowsky’s insight, Newcomb’s Paradox, “air pockets”, and long and variable leads
  40. Tim Besley on the Importance of Political Economy for Economic Development
  41. Play the Hand You’re Dealt
  42. Putterman-Weil Data
  43. Correlation and causation
  44. Two Fun Facts from Putterman-Weil
  45. It takes a regime change
  46. End Draft Registration
  47. Betting Rules
  48. Does Paul Krugman believe that markets are bilingual?
  49. Beckworth and Ponnuru on 2008
  50. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Spolaore and Wacziarg
  51. Foglia on Piketty and inequalities
  52. A Simple Proof Not All Markets Work Well
  53. Larry Summers’s Perspective and Mine
  54. My Talk at the University of Toronto
  55. I Win My Long-Term Unemployment Bet with Tyler
  56. Altruism, No Regard for Some Others, or Belief in the Tooth Fairy
  57. Storytelling
  58. Venezuela’s Tiger
  59. Making capitalism more attractive
  60. James Bullard on Neo-Fisherian economics
  61. My First Speech at St. John’s: How Economists Helped End the Draft
  62. The Equator in Comin, Easterly, and Gong
  63. Comedian Tackles Immigration
  64. Thank God economists cannot predict recessions
  65. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Comin, Easterly, and Gong
  66. Studies of Public Goods
  67. Putterman’s Commentary, with My Replies
  68. Two Election Bets
  69. Is the TPP Good or Bad on Net?
  70. ADHD Reconsidered
  71. Why doesn’t a move toward easier money always lead to higher long term bond yields?
  72. Janet, Janet: The Shrewd San Francisco Fed
  73. ADHD Shall Save Us

January 2016

  1. Don’t Make Canadians Poorer
  2. Huffington Post’s Stunning Ignorance of Immigration Law
  3. Influence, target, control
  4. Gordon on Growth: Rates versus Levels
  5. An Ivy League Admissions Officer Speaks
  6. In Like Flint and Out Like My Cousin Vinny
  7. J.S. Mill and Extreme Pornography
  8. Some thoughts on utilitarianism and individual rights
  9. My Future of Freedom Foundation Interview
  10. Bet on Terrorist Incident
  11. Ancestry and Long-Run Growth Reading Club: Putterman and Weil
  12. Paul Krugman on French economic policies
  13. An Educational Challenge
  14. Ponnuru’s Corollary to Hanlon’s Razor
  15. Means-Testing Social Security: The Cohen-Friedman Debate, I
  16. Joan Baez Sr.: A Reminiscence
  17. The Ambitious Case Against T.J.
  18. Keynesian economics and cognitive illusions
  19. Progress on Health Care
  20. Kling and Johnson review The Midas Paradox
  21. Larry Summers and asset prices
  22. Hire Locally
  23. Forgetting How to Drive in the Snow
  24. Forgetting: The Basic Facts
  25. The Economics of the Cadillac Health Care Tax, Part II
  26. Hey Fed, stop hanging around the Combat Zone
  27. Jane Mayer’s Problem
  28. SOAS Policy Forum on Sweatshops
  29. The Missing Moods
  30. The Economics of the Cadillac Health Care Tax, Part I
  31. EconLog Reading Club: Ancestry and Long-Run Growth
  32. High Profits as an Incentive to Bear High R&D Costs
  33. Behavioral economists aren’t as smart as they think
  34. China is rapidly shifting to a service economy
  35. I Changed My Mind About Betting
  36. Am I an ideologue?
  37. Will Paul Krugman Say He’s Sorry?
  38. Climate Economists Base Their Alarm on Their Own Ethical Judgments
  39. We never seem to learn
  40. “Poor Programs” Bleg
  41. The European right and the GOP
  42. The Great Pacification, U.S. Edition
  43. Smith’s Defense of Western Civilization
  44. Terrorism and Innumeracy
  45. Antitrust vs. “Cannibal Capitalism”
  46. Western Civilization is a Hardy Weed: The Case of Islam
  47. China’s always been poorly governed
  48. Does Contract Enforcement Require Government as a Backstop?
  49. Friedman and Reynolds on Saez and Zucman
  50. The Institutions of Forensic Science
  51. Sympathy for the devil?
  52. FDA and Patent System Discourage Research on Early Stage Cancer
  53. The Economist Who Didn’t Bark
  54. What would an IS shock look like?
  55. Ridley, liberty, optimism and pessimism
  56. Uberize the Economy
  57. Passing the buck
  58. Hiring Without Signals
  59. The China currency mystery
  60. Henderson Vote Counts
  61. Thinking on the Margin
  62. Who’s afraid of level targeting?
  63. Spooner the Constitutionalist
  64. Brian Doherty on Guns, Crime, and Gun Laws
  65. Henderson on the Lars Larson Show
  66. Three Great Comments on My FDA Post
  67. Trump and/or Berlusconi
  68. The Problem with FDA Restrictions on Drugs
  69. How We Count Counts: Diane Coyle on The Rise and Fall of American Growth
  70. The day of reckoning arrives for global socialism
  71. A Teen Tries the Ideological Turing Test
  72. Introducing Emily Skarbek
  73. Jeffrey Sachs’s Sleight of Hand
  74. NGDP or NGO?
  75. Robert Hetzel explains why the real problem was nominal
  76. I Win My Inflation Bet with Robert Murphy

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