2017

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December 2017

1. 31 DecThe Growth of the Chinese Leviathan
2. 31 DecFurther thoughts on corporate income taxes
3. 30 DecMoney as Coined Liberty
4. 29 DecJapan doesn’t need easier money; the BOJ needs easier money
5. 29 DecTales of Chicago Workshops
6. 28 DecMuch ado about very little
7. 28 DecOnly the Rich
8. 28 DecBombing Makes People Mad
9. 27 DecMark Steyn Agrees with Bryan Caplan on Immigration
10. 27 DecIs QE effective? (Please don’t ask)
11. 27 DecMe on Education on Tucker Carlson
12. 26 DecMarket Failure or Market Success?
13. 26 DecWhat’s Wrong With Students: A Guest Post by Dennis Fried
14. 25 DecI wish you a very neoliberal Christmas
15. 24 DecWould Rogoff’s Preferred Policy Reduce Liberty and Privacy?
16. 23 DecIs Portugal’s drug policy a success?
17. 23 DecChristmas Gifts Made Far Away
18. 22 DecMy Shortrun Tax Strategy
19. 22 DecDon’t forget about opportunity cost
20. 21 DecFive Thoughts About the Tax Bill
21. 21 DecThe Political Economy of Social Desirability Bias
22. 20 DecKrugman Talks Sense on Trade and Immigration
23. 20 DecReply to Noah on Sheepskin Effects and Collegiate Consumption
24. 20 DecA penny for your thoughts
25. 19 DecDianne Feinstein’s Misunderstanding of the Mortgage Deduction
26. 19 DecFamily, Pop Culture, and the Nurture Assumption
27. 19 DecThe Last Jedi and a hard-to-die fallacy
28. 18 DecReply to Noah on The Case Against Education
29. 18 DecPeace at a 49ers Game
30. 18 DecSome comments on tax incidence
31. 17 DecTirole on Economics for the Common Good
32. 16 DecOrigins of the Entitlement Nightmare
33. 15 DecThree big natural experiments
34. 15 DecRogoff on How to Deal with Emergencies Without Cash
35. 15 DecFree Trade Agreements v Unilateral Free Trade
36. 14 DecRogoff’s Alternative to the Wall
37. 14 DecDoherty on libertarians and Bitcoin
38. 13 DecTyler Cowen and the Four Blind Men
39. 13 DecThe Truth Hurts: Public Choice and Liberty
40. 13 DecEugene Volokh on Everything
41. 12 DecIs Hiring Jews Evidence of anti-Semitism?
42. 12 DecThe Will of the People Meets the Man in the Moon
43. 11 DecThe sad paradox of free markets
44. 11 DecIs Support for Freedom of Association Fanatical?
45. 10 DecA Man Called Ove
46. 10 DecWhat if I didn’t favor NGDP targeting?
47. 8 DecMy Excerpt in The Atlantic
48. 7 DecCutting Corporate Tax Rates in 2018 or 2019: It Matters
49. 7 DecWhat’s my core message?
50. 7 DecThe Shining City on a Hill: Commentary on Reagan
51. 6 DecAverage Federal Tax Rates by Income Quintile
52. 6 DecWhy Addicts’ Deaths Are Not a Social Cost of Opioid Consumption
53. 6 DecThe Unbearable Arbitrariness of Deploring
54. 5 DecWhat does it mean to say “The Fed did too much”?
55. 5 DecThe Flynn Effect vs. the Greatest Minds in History
56. 4 DecMisconceptions about taxes
57. 4 DecThe Inverse-Hirschman Scenario
58. 4 DecMe in Switzerland and Germany
59. 2 DecHouse bill >>>>>>>>> Senate bill
60. 2 DecVladimir Kogan Replies on Sabotage
61. 1 DecAll hail Goushi Kataoka!
62. 1 DecRecognizing a Unicorn When You See One

November 2017

1. 30 NovHartmann-Sauer ITT
2. 30 NovRisk of Death for Border Patrol Agents
3. 29 NovPowell’s Senate testimony
4. 29 NovThe Highs and Low of Today’s Wall Street Journal
5. 29 NovWhy It Matters Whodunit
6. 29 NovAgain on intellectuals and capitalism / 3 of 3
7. 28 NovSpot the Irony
8. 28 NovAgain on intellectuals and capitalism / 2 of 3
9. 28 NovIdeological Turing Test: Case Against Education Edition
10. 28 NovMurder on the Orient Express
11. 27 NovDid Republicans Sabotage Obamacare Implementation?
12. 27 NovConsciousness is All-Important: The Case of Signaling
13. 27 NovAgain on intellectuals and capitalism / 1 of 3
14. 26 NovWhy Don’t You Say Things You Don’t Believe?
15. 25 NovOld classical macro plus reallocation
16. 24 NovMass Killings and the Economic Approach to Human Behavior
17. 23 NovGiving Thanks
18. 23 NovThanksgiving in Tesla Town
19. 22 NovInternational Adoption: The Personal Side
20. 21 NovSummers on Growth, Trade, Immigration, Marshall Plan, and Tax Cartels
21. 21 NovRyan Murphy on government effectiveness and growth
22. 21 NovAnswer These Questions About the Reformation
23. 21 NovHimmelfarb on why intellectuals hate capitalism
24. 20 NovHow Corporate Income Taxation is Misunderstood
25. 20 NovThe Ideological Turing Test in 3 Minutes
26. 19 NovCoulter on Immigration
27. 19 NovHow much do government workers cost?
28. 18 NovThe third option
29. 18 NovAllan Meltzer, libertarian institutionalist
30. 17 NovTaking Comparative Advantage Seriously
31. 17 NovCaplan on Communism
32. 16 NovA Vast But Dwindling Reservoir of Nativism
33. 16 NovHow should we evaluate Herbert Hoover?
34. 15 NovAll Roads Lead to Open Borders: Slides
35. 15 NovAbout That Loss of Health Insurance
36. 14 NovWhy Question the Protestant Reformation?
37. 14 NovScott Alexander on David Friedman’s New Book
38. 14 NovKling on Bruno Leoni
39. 14 NovDo the right thing
40. 13 NovAll Roads Lead to Open Borders: An Advance Look
41. 12 NovShould Fed bond holdings be restricted?
42. 12 NovWithout Government Who Would Hassle People Who Help the Poor?
43. 11 NovSaturday Afternoon Video: Henderson on Thaler on RT
44. 10 NovNews flash: College students come from middle-aged parents
45. 9 NovThe Case Against Education Now Available for Preorder!
46. 8 NovCowen on the Republican Tax Cut Bill
47. 8 NovDavid Beckworth interviews Doug Irwin
48. 8 NovLessons of the South Asian Swastika
49. 7 NovOther People’s Money
50. 7 NovCentral banks should have listened to Eliezer Yudkowsky
51. 7 NovThe Peculiar Political Economy of Reverse Grandfathering
52. 7 NovBig Brother Does Not Always Help, or Only at a Cost
53. 6 NovHenderson at Adrian College in Michigan
54. 6 NovPrice Gouging is Fine but Humans are Better
55. 5 NovReminiscences of Rand and Buckley
56. 4 NovWait, did Bernie Sanders win the election?
57. 4 NovPer Capita Growth
58. 3 NovCatalonia and common sense
59. 2 NovTax Reform and the Tyranny of the Transitional Gains Trap
60. 2 NovJerome Powell as Fed chair
61. 2 NovCompetition is a Hardy Weed, Not a Delicate Flower
62. 2 NovThe Value of the Reformation: Reply to Somin
63. 2 NovBetter than expected, but will it survive?
64. 1 NovTouchy-Feely Bull in a China Shop

October 2017

1. 31 OctInflation is Even More Inflated Than We Thought
2. 31 OctHard Questions About the Protestant Reformation
3. 30 OctBad policies lead to bad theory
4. 30 OctRoberts and McArdle on Internet Shaming and Online Mobs
5. 30 OctMisleading Bureaucratese
6. 29 OctAnother Fed mistake from 2008
7. 28 OctSaturday Morning Video: Economic Inequality
8. 27 Oct401k plans do not “subsidize saving”
9. 27 OctAn Unfair Tax on Unlucky Young Men
10. 26 OctICE’s Flawed Cost-Benefit Analysis
11. 26 OctDo low taxes explain inequality?
12. 26 OctSoonish Success!
13. 26 OctCan YouTube Censor?
14. 25 OctWhat can school choice accomplish?
15. 25 OctIn praise of investor activism
16. 25 OctNorth on the October Revolution
17. 24 OctHighlights of George W. Bush Speech
18. 24 OctEcon as Anatomy
19. 24 OctPrice cap for electricity in the UK?
20. 23 OctStudents for Liberty Open Borders Debate: My Opening Statement
21. 23 OctThe 1987 stock market crash
22. 22 OctHenderson at Texas Tech in Lubbock
23. 22 OctSunday Morning Audio: The German Economic Miracle
24. 21 OctA breath of fresh air from John Cochrane
25. 21 OctThe News and Me
26. 20 OctVoters don’t hate inflation
27. 20 OctAttacking Civilians in War
28. 19 OctResentment Not Hate
29. 19 OctCentral bank infallibility is a core axiom of modern macro
30. 19 OctEconomic Possibilities for our Spacetraveling Grandchildren
31. 19 OctHassett’s Numbers are Plausible
32. 18 OctAnti-Market Bias in One Sentence
33. 18 OctSummers, Kotlikoff, and Mintz on the Proposed Trump Tax Cuts
34. 18 OctDon’t assume that irrationality is hard-wired into humans
35. 17 OctThoughts on the UMich Immigration Debate
36. 17 OctAgain on the Catalonian secession and the EU
37. 16 OctTwo Texas Talks
38. 16 OctRethinking Macroeconomics
39. 16 OctDoes Trump’s Immigration Agenda Harm Democracy? My Opening Statement
40. 16 OctFred McChesney RIP
41. 16 OctMises was a neocon, and other oddities
42. 15 OctHassett on Tax Cuts and Growth
43. 14 Oct1967 and 2008: Two botched policies
44. 12 OctBernanke proposes an inflation/price level hybrid target
45. 11 OctA Protectionist Utopia?
46. 11 OctEvidence for money non-neutrality
47. 11 OctWe’re Number 11, We’re Number 11! Eh?
48. 10 OctMe in Michigan
49. 10 OctHenderson on Thaler’s Nobel
50. 9 OctCongratulations to Richard Thaler
51. 9 OctHume on Pessimistic Bias
52. 9 OctA very bad book
53. 9 OctRichard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize
54. 8 OctIrving Fisher Explains Interest to Socialist
55. 8 OctBalance of trade data is not what you think
56. 6 OctDefine “efficient”
57. 6 OctRicardo Hausmann on the Venezuelan Tragedy
58. 5 OctFirst as tragedy, then as farce
59. 5 OctYou Can’t Benefit from Free Trade if You Don’t Have a Job. Right?
60. 5 OctWhat’s Killing Us? A Huemer Guest Post
61. 4 OctRoger Farmer on NGDP futures targeting
62. 4 OctThe Pathos of Doing the Best I Can
63. 4 OctThe Power of the Median Voter Theorem
64. 3 OctDoing the Best I Can: Social Science at Its Best
65. 3 OctThe Catalonian Mess
66. 2 OctWhat a Wonderful World!
67. 1 OctMilton Friedman wouldn’t have been confused
68. 1 OctSunday Morning Audio: Henderson Interview on Price Gouging

September 2017

1. 29 SepMy Retirement
2. 29 SepCultural Philistines and Marxism
3. 28 SepThe Forgotten Man/Woman
4. 27 SepModern Art and Occam’s Razor
5. 27 SepRaj Chetty’s Non Sequitur
6. 26 SepDeLong on Scott’s Seeing Like a State
7. 26 SepThe Bias of Modern Art
8. 26 SepThe macroeconomic elite is definitely wrong about something
9. 25 SepMilgram’s “Obedience to Authority” Replicates
10. 25 SepHenderson on Rothstein’s The Color of Law
11. 25 SepFriedman on Trump
12. 24 SepAbraham Lincoln on the Theory of Public Choice
13. 24 SepAmerica’s middle class: 50 years of amazing progress
14. 23 SepReply to Bryan on utilitarianism
15. 22 SepCold James Buchanan
16. 21 SepFeldstein’s Insight on Standards of Living
17. 21 SepLeft and Right: A Socratic Dialogue
18. 20 SepDon’t change the forecast; change the policy
19. 20 SepMy 1983 Response to Koch Lobbying on Oil
20. 20 SepThe Wonder of International Adoption: High School Grades in Sweden
21. 19 SepDoes Prosperity Make Us Utilitarian?
22. 19 SepBeckworth interviews Summers
23. 18 SepPrivate Foundations and their Child-Like Customers
24. 18 SepThe Wonder of International Adoption: Adult IQ in Sweden
25. 18 SepHappy Birthday, Dr. Johnson
26. 17 SepDoes prosperity push us to the left?
27. 16 SepHimmelfarb on the Fabians
28. 16 SepCriticism Doesn’t Violate the First Amendment
29. 15 SepTough Talk for Venezuela?
30. 15 SepHow should we encourage exports? (And should we?)
31. 15 SepA Poll of Economists on Price Gouging
32. 14 SepReport from Naples
33. 14 SepA Taste of Bastiat
34. 13 SepCore Concepts
35. 13 SepHuman Smuggling: What If Philanthropists Were in Charge?
36. 13 SepHow do we evaluate Robert Shiller’s forecast?
37. 12 SepGodwin’s Law in the Public Square, or, Unowned Property Leads to Hitler
38. 12 SepWhat’s Wrong with the Thrive/Survive Theory of Left and Right
39. 11 SepMy Pre 9/11 Column
40. 11 SepCase Against Education Updates
41. 10 SepLaw Professor Glenn Reynolds Doesn’t Understand U.S. Law
42. 9 SepMacro events (in big economies) don’t have micro causes
43. 9 SepIn Defense of Dudley
44. 7 SepMinogue on intellectuals and politics
45. 7 SepRugged Communitarians
46. 6 SepAre most Americans radical libertarians?
47. 6 SepCalifornia is Broke(n)
48. 6 SepMore Reasons to Read About Religion
49. 5 SepThaler on Price Gouging
50. 5 SepCaplan Family School Graduation Podcast
51. 4 SepLemieux on Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
52. 4 SepLarry Summers on the rise of monopoly power
53. 2 SepThe labor market is not a reliable guide to policy
54. 2 SepHenderson and Cochrane on Climate Policy
55. 1 SepGary North on Domestic Communism
56. 1 SepRajan on inequalities and the rise of populism

August 2017

1. 31 AugHow deregulation can improve bank safety
2. 31 AugAntonio Foglia on the financial crisis
3. 30 Aug“Price Gouging” Is Urgently Necessary
4. 30 AugMy Homeschooling Textbooks
5. 30 AugThe Real Problem was Nominal: Example #259
6. 29 AugPaul Pillar on Iranian Sanctions
7. 29 AugTristan Caplan’s Tetlockian Glossary
8. 28 AugThe root causes of natural disasters
9. 28 AugLarry White on the Origin of Money
10. 28 AugFour Decades of Middle Eastern Disaster: The Proximate Cause
11. 28 AugSocial Security Sonya from Seattle
12. 26 AugMale Privilege versus Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance
13. 26 AugPrecursors of NeoFisherism
14. 25 AugLeSean McCoy’s Beautiful Marginalist Insight
15. 25 AugPacifism in A Generation of Materialism
16. 25 AugDoes Libertarianism Reject Anti-Semitism?
17. 25 AugNo Solutions, Only Trade-offs: The Costs of Fiddling with Shakespeare
18. 24 AugThe Fed can do what King Canute could not
19. 24 AugSaving Labor with Disposables
20. 23 AugJust how political is the Fed?
21. 23 AugThe Not-So-Curious Absence of American Emulationists in the Third World?
22. 23 AugPresident Trump’s Tragic Sunk Cost Fallacy
23. 22 AugNever say never
24. 22 AugThe Curious Absence of American Emulationists in the Third World
25. 22 AugCan regulations stop terrorism?
26. 21 AugNew Reflections on the Evolution in France
27. 20 AugAll That Glitters Is Not Gold: A Parable
28. 20 AugPrices and Your Pocketbook
29. 19 AugWorstall on Robots and Jobs
30. 18 AugHenderson on Robots, Jobs, and Productivity
31. 17 AugFifty years ago
32. 16 AugHummel on the Curse of Cash
33. 16 AugCan the left and the right agree on a monetary reform plan?
34. 15 AugWar Crimes and the Long Run
35. 15 AugThe Ethics of Charles Koch
36. 14 AugSons of Wichita
37. 13 AugSome thoughts on stock prices and risk of nuclear war
38. 12 AugNeoliberalism is making the world much more equal
39. 11 AugMore markets please
40. 10 AugDo criminals obey regulations?
41. 9 AugDon’t be early in bubble predictions
42. 8 AugMilton Friedman on the intellectuals who oppose capitalism
43. 8 AugWhat’s in Your Bag?
44. 7 AugHooper’s Law of Drug Development
45. 7 AugI warned the Swiss that this would happen
46. 5 AugGood News on Employment
47. 4 AugA note on the “natural” rate of interest
48. 4 AugMarkets for Everything, Minaki Edition
49. 4 AugConspiracy and Condemnation
50. 3 AugWhich bus would you take?
51. 2 AugI, Needle Nose Pliers
52. 1 AugStop Thinking Like a Tourist: Macaulay Edition

July 2017

1. 31 JulHenderson and Cochrane on Climate Policy
2. 30 JulMacron, economic nationalist
3. 29 JulThe economic news is not good
4. 27 JulFriedman, Galbraith, and Wright on American Capitalism
5. 26 JulA Knight Tale
6. 25 JulFrank Knight’s Case for Communism
7. 25 JulDo you really want to include capital gains?
8. 24 JulThree Thumbsuckers
9. 24 JulCaplan in Paris
10. 23 JulJoseph Rago RIP
11. 21 JulFrank Knight on John B. Watson
12. 20 JulSudan Sanctions and My Neighbor’s Cat
13. 20 JulHow Conscious Is Your Robot?
14. 20 JulGetting Around Economic Sanctions in Sudan
15. 19 JulDe-Identifying Race and Ethnicity Reduces Bias
16. 19 JulGermany is not the problem
17. 18 JulMurder: A Socratic Dialogue
18. 18 JulEnough to Buy Back the Product
19. 17 JulIs Russia’s Government Hostile?
20. 17 JulVarys, Tyrion and limited government
21. 17 JulEm Bet?
22. 16 JulSorry, I don’t get the joke
23. 14 JulDemocratic ideology unchained
24. 14 JulFarrell and Teles on Nancy MacLean
25. 14 JulWhat Bernanke was up against
26. 13 JulAmazon Prime’s Contribution to Northern Canada
27. 13 JulImperialism in A Generation of Materialism
28. 13 JulLiu Xiaobo, RIP
29. 12 JulMilton Friedman on Black Markets
30. 12 JulStatutory Rape and Availability Bias in Virginia
31. 12 JulGary Cohn as Fed chair?
32. 11 JulCan majoring in philosophy make you a better person?
33. 11 JulStop Thinking Like a Tourist
34. 11 JulFriedman in 1946
35. 10 JulDavid Beckworth interviews Steve Horwitz
36. 9 JulWalter Block’s Reductio ad Absurdum
37. 9 JulSwift and Stevenson on economics
38. 8 JulA correction on a previous post on Luddite theories
39. 8 JulMaking Dental Care and Health Care Less Expensive
40. 7 JulVerizon vs. USPS
41. 6 JulA Lawyer’s Perry Mason Moment
42. 6 JulConfused by a price change
43. 5 JulMinimally Convincing
44. 5 JulMurphy on Private Production of Roads
45. 5 JulThe Phillips curve doesn’t predict inflation
46. 4 JulThey Were Terrible
47. 4 JulLies, true lies, and statistics
48. 3 JulVerizon Victory!
49. 3 JulHow long can the China boom continue?
50. 3 JulHanson Underrates Democracy
51. 2 JulFree trade is on the march
52. 1 JulWithout Government Regulation Who Would Hassle Liquor Retailers?

June 2017

1. 30 JunWill antitrust become a geopolitical matter?
2. 29 JunMy views on monetary economics
3. 29 JunWhat Is Resentment?
4. 29 JunOde to iPhone
5. 28 JunVerizon’s Unaccountability
6. 28 JunReply to Yudkowsky
7. 27 JunYudkowsky on My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right
8. 27 JunNancy MacLean’s Distortion of James Buchanan’s Statement
9. 26 JunBret Stephens’s Attack on Ron Paul
10. 26 JunHow should we measure productivity?
11. 26 JunBoudreaux on the Progressive Mentality
12. 25 JunAre the Savings from Cutting Medicaid Illusory?
13. 24 JunJames Buchanan’s Work
14. 23 JunBoth Sides Gain from Exchange
15. 23 JunNominal exchange rates, real exchange rates and protectionism
16. 22 JunIs America in Retreat?
17. 22 JunProgressive/Libertarian: The Alliance That Isn’t
18. 21 JunTanenhaus on James Buchanan
19. 21 JunBuild, Baby, Build
20. 21 JunWhat’s causing the low inflation?
21. 20 JunPositive-Sum Diversity
22. 19 JunSpecial Diversity
23. 19 JunThe tragedy of Grenfell Tower and some Internet demagogues
24. 19 JunImmigration and growth
25. 18 JunA Father’s Day Tribute
26. 17 JunHow much did poverty rise under Reagan?
27. 16 JunMilton Friedman: Crusader for Liberty
28. 15 JunHenderson Review of Schuck
29. 15 JunTrust and Diversity: Not a Bang But a Whimper
30. 15 JunLarry Summers, market monetarist?
31. 14 JunLarry White on Monetary Economists and the Gold Standard
32. 14 JunWhat a Bet Shows
33. 13 JunWhat monopsony power in the labor market looks like
34. 13 JunForcibly Paid Parental Leave
35. 12 JunThe Fed needs a new “theory”
36. 12 JunImmigration Charity at Work
37. 12 JunHow Much Pee in Your Pool?
38. 11 JunPreach What You Practice
39. 11 JunDoes tribalism breed extremism?
40. 9 JunThe WSJ on the German trade surplus
41. 9 JunA Small but Significant Step Away from Peronism
42. 8 JunBalan on the Immigration Bet
43. 7 JunSunstein Backs Down on Libertarian Marriage
44. 7 JunUnfortunately, I Win My Obama Immigration Bet
45. 7 JunShould declining mobility impact monetary policy?
46. 6 JunWill anti-free market conservatism prove electorally successful?
47. 6 JunMean Reversion and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Suggested Answer
48. 6 JunThe Nightmare in Your Future
49. 5 JunMean Reversion and the Permanent Income Hypothesis
50. 5 JunJoseph Schumpeter on the Decline of Applebee’s
51. 5 JunReal and nominal shocks
52. 5 JunTrade Deficit or Stuff Surplus?
53. 3 JunCents and Sensibility
54. 3 JunTwo new picks for the Fed?
55. 2 JunCook vs. Cass on Global Warming
56. 2 JunAmerican banking: Socialism or laissez-faire?

May 2017

1. 31 MayU.S. Immigration Has Had a Large Positive Long-Run Impact
2. 31 MayReasoning from a price change caused the Great Depression
3. 29 MayAARP on Drug Prices
4. 29 MayMore Ginis please
5. 29 MayCruise Ships and Private Plots
6. 27 MaySaving, cost control, and infrastructure
7. 25 MayTabarrok on the Great Depression
8. 25 MayWhat if we had a financial crisis without tight money?
9. 25 MayNationalism Is Not News
10. 25 MayDoes John Cochrane get Italy wrong?
11. 24 MayLarry Summers Trumps Trump
12. 24 MayTrust Assimilation in the United States
13. 24 May“Public opinion” is not what you think
14. 23 MayThe Behavioral Econ of Paperwork
15. 23 MayPrediction markets and loss aversion
16. 22 MayThe new Hypermind NGDP futures market
17. 22 MaySolar Power: Lots of Jobs per KWH is Bad, not Good
18. 21 MayWages are the key to the business cycle
19. 19 MayFinancial crisis or monetary policy failure?
20. 18 MayNowrasteh on E-Verify
21. 18 MayMe on Anarcho-Capitalism on the Rubin Report
22. 18 MayEcho Chambers and the Prevalence of Motivated Reasoning
23. 17 MayE-Verify: Let’s Make Us More Like Europe
24. 17 MayThe “Real X” Defense
25. 17 MayDo robots reduce employment?
26. 16 MayWhat can we expect from Macron?
27. 16 MayIs Mankiw’s $2.10 Optimal Gas Tax Correct?
28. 15 MayWhat does Greece tell us about the AS/AD model?
29. 15 MayGeography Is Policy
30. 14 MayGreg Mankiw’s Deficient Treatment of Negative Externalities
31. 14 MayGood news on trade?
32. 12 MayWhy Do College Admissions Offices Value Volunteer Work?
33. 12 MayWhat Is Emotional Truth?
34. 12 MayAvik Roy on GOP health care reform.
35. 11 MayGovernment Spending in Canada
36. 10 MayIs the Greek public debt actually “unpayable”?
37. 10 MaySupply-Side Medical Reforms
38. 10 MayWhat’s Wrong With the Macro AP
39. 9 MayAllan H. Meltzer, RIP
40. 9 MayThoma on the Financial Choice Act
41. 8 MayIs history cyclical?
42. 8 MayWarren Bet
43. 8 MayUpdate on FIRE
44. 6 MayPolicy needs to be symmetrical
45. 6 MayHenderson on RT on Corporate Tax Cuts, Deregulation, and Immigration
46. 5 MayDon’t target unemployment
47. 5 MayIncentives Work in the NBA Too
48. 4 MayWilliam J. Baumol, RIP
49. 4 MayPollitt on Putnam
50. 4 MayCarl F. Christ, RIP
51. 3 MayRuss Roberts’s Wonderful Loaf
52. 3 MayAmerica: A dromedary, not a Bactrian camel
53. 3 MayThe Widerquist-Caplan UBI Debate
54. 3 MayWho stands in the way of populists? The French case.
55. 2 MayIn Defense of FIRE
56. 2 MayRemember Marxism?
57. 1 MayAntiestablishmentarianism
58. 1 MayThe Consumer Gratitude Heuristic
59. 1 MayWhy Predatory Pricing is Highly Unlikely

April 2017

1. 30 AprGenerals fighting the last war
2. 29 AprPope Francis’s Distorted Vision
3. 28 AprHow can there be a shortage of construction workers?
4. 27 AprThe World’s Worst Argument Against Homeschooling
5. 26 AprKeep Your Eye on the Prize
6. 26 AprEzra Klein on the Singapore health care miracle
7. 25 AprReply to Adam Ozimek
8. 25 AprWhat Is Self-Righteousness?
9. 24 AprScore One for United Airlines
10. 24 AprTrump and Le Pen
11. 24 AprEarth 2.0?
12. 24 AprBretton Woods as a “guardrails” approach to monetary policy
13. 23 AprAdam Smith’s pins
14. 22 AprCrash Pad
15. 21 AprThe “national defense” argument
16. 20 AprEd Lopez is an Hungarian University
17. 20 AprTwo Cheers for Fox News Channel
18. 19 AprMore Highlights from Hayek
19. 19 AprIQ With Conscience: Three Followups
20. 19 AprLet them eat quality?
21. 18 AprHayek on Case for Freedom
22. 18 AprIQ With Conscience
23. 17 AprEconomic Systems: The Fundamental Questions
24. 17 AprFriedrich Hayek and Abba Lerner on General Rules
25. 16 AprDoes trade with China cost jobs?
26. 14 AprIt Takes a Government to Do an Auschwitz
27. 14 AprAvoid procyclical inflation
28. 13 AprThe public only thinks it likes low inflation
29. 13 AprMarkets, Morals, and United Flight 3411
30. 12 Apr1470 Economists Say Immigration is Good for Us
31. 12 AprThe Undermotivated Apostate: Two Post-Libertarian Case Studies
32. 12 AprWhat housing supply glut?
33. 11 AprThe Undermotivated Apostate
34. 11 AprMurphy and Smith on NGDP and politics
35. 10 AprA Keynesian Conundrum
36. 9 AprSupply and demand both matter
37. 8 AprMight Trump actually end up promoting liberalism?
38. 7 AprA little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing
39. 6 AprScott Alexander’s Self-Evaluations
40. 6 AprHenderson and Hooper on Flawed Climate Models
41. 5 AprFDR Understood that Incentives and Property Rights Matter
42. 5 AprWhat were the “costs and risks” of QE?
43. 4 AprThe Big Problem with the Ultimatum Game
44. 4 AprWhat’s Wrong With the Rationality Community
45. 3 AprEducation, Politics, and Peers
46. 3 AprThe Economics of Political Balderdash
47. 2 AprWould You Pay $43 for the Right to Extract a Barrel of Oil When the Market Price is $43?
48. 1 AprHeterodoxy at the AER

March 2017

1. 31 MarTwo Michigan cities
2. 30 MarThe Case Against Education News
3. 30 MarThe Great Recession, productivity and productivity growth
4. 29 MarHenderson on NAFTA and Mercantilism
5. 29 MarComplacent Trust
6. 28 MarUBI and Health Care: What’s Wrong With Murray’s Approach
7. 28 MarHooper and Henderson Do Want the FDA Another Way
8. 28 MarDan Klein on Scott Gottlieb
9. 27 MarAn Optimistic View on Deregulation’s Prospects
10. 27 MarTwo Intuitionist Insights
11. 27 MarStocks did not crash this morning
12. 26 MarBest Two Paragraphs of My Weekend Reading
13. 25 MarConservatives better hope that wages and prices are sticky
14. 25 MarRestless Judge Posner
15. 24 MarDeLong on Gains from International Trade
16. 23 MarHenderson on the John Batchelor Show
17. 23 MarGood Manners vs. Political Correctness
18. 23 MarRobert Frost and liberalism
19. 23 MarSocial Science, Statistics, and the Garden of the Forking Paths
20. 22 MarTyler Cowen is a Semi-Persuasive Futurist
21. 22 MarIs Immigration a Basic Human Right? Full Video
22. 21 MarInterest on reserves and stock prices in 2008
23. 21 MarPacifism in Hell’s Angels
24. 20 MarThoughts on the Republican Health Insurance Reform
25. 20 MarIs Immigration a Basic Human Right? My Opening Statement
26. 19 MarIs a falling population contractionary?
27. 17 MarRicardo Reis on price level targeting
28. 16 MarIs God a Macro- or Micro- Economist?
29. 15 MarWhen You Lose Something You Don’t Want, Is that Really a Loss?
30. 14 MarI’m becoming increasingly worried about AI
31. 13 MarThis is Misleading CNN–and CBO
32. 13 MarFrance’s NIRA did just as poorly as America’s
33. 12 MarThe Joys of Yiddish and Economics
34. 11 MarA dangerous myth about trade deficits
35. 10 MarCan fiscal transfers solve the Eurozone’s problems?
36. 9 MarIs Taxing One Item Because It’s in a Subsidized Category a Good Idea?
37. 7 MarWhy I favor taxing subsidized goods
38. 7 MarKarl Smith’s Weak Critique of Veronique de Rugy
39. 7 MarThe eclipse of classical liberalism
40. 7 MarInitial thoughts on Obamacare 2.0
41. 6 MarSoonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
42. 6 MarOpting Out of Social Security
43. 6 MarSan Diego Immigration Debate
44. 5 MarWhy not both?
45. 4 MarEast Side Sushi Celebrates Labor Market
46. 4 MarDo checks and balances reduce efficiency?
47. 3 MarThree Problems with Chetty’s Study of Income Mobility
48. 2 MarThe Perverse Effects of the Pre-Existing Condition Pricing Ban
49. 2 MarTwo popular views that can’t both be right
50. 2 MarPower-Hunger
51. 1 MarThe (developed) world’s 4th longest expansion
52. 1 MarStop Winning Arguments
53. 1 MarRead Meer

February 2017

1. 28 FebIlliberal Reformers is Heartening
2. 28 FebMy Deportation Index: The Drum Critique
3. 27 FebBLS Overstates Drop in Labor Share
4. 27 FebTrump Bet Clarification
5. 27 FebDon’t appoint a bunch of business people to the Fed
6. 26 FebAgain on Cowen’s techno-pessimism
7. 25 FebHow to Run a Drug Cartel
8. 25 FebGetting the Facts
9. 25 FebMonetary offset in the UK?
10. 24 FebQuinones versus Eberstadt
11. 23 FebWhat has Syria ever done for us?
12. 23 FebWho’s the Real “Deporter in Chief”?
13. 22 FebKenneth Arrow, RIP
14. 22 FebA few predictions (Nothing will change)
15. 22 FebDo Middle-Class College Kids Already Have a UBI?
16. 21 FebHow San Diego Built a Bridge Over the Wall
17. 21 FebFreedom of Speech and Private Property
18. 21 FebWhither the Ex-Im Bank?
19. 21 FebUBI Debate Video
20. 20 FebBryan Caplan’s Best Line and My Thoughts
21. 20 FebWhy Libertarians Should Oppose the Universal Basic Income
22. 19 FebBeckworth interviews Eggertsson
23. 18 FebTaxes and Deadweight Loss
24. 17 FebThe lump of labor fallacy
25. 17 FebMichael Novak RIP
26. 17 FebWhy Tyler Cowen’s Pessimism Fails to Persuade Me
27. 17 FebSee You At ISFLC 2017
28. 16 FebThe problem is not tight money, it’s unstable money
29. 16 FebI’ll Never Ever Ever Do It Again
30. 16 FebProtectionism IS Inflationary
31. 15 FebMove Over, Stock Market: The U.K. Statisticians Are Contending
32. 15 FebHow to think about taxes
33. 15 FebThe Costs of Diversity: What Will I Learn?
34. 15 FebBitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America
35. 15 FebThe Case for Check-Cashing Stores
36. 14 FebThe Psychiatry Museum vs. the Reasonable Radical
37. 13 FebProtectionism is not inflationary
38. 13 FebFinal Reply to Dolan on the UBI, For Now
39. 10 FebThe Henderson Squawk Box Highlight Reel
40. 10 FebAre rising prices, interest rates and exchanges rates a good thing?
41. 9 FebHenderson on Squawk Box
42. 9 FebThe shocking truth about border tax adjustments
43. 9 FebRejoinder on UBI
44. 9 FebBribe Bully Beg Borrow Steal
45. 8 FebWhat’s so bad about sugar?
46. 8 FebWhy do so many economists favor fiscal stimulus in Japan?
47. 8 FebHow NAFTA Facilitates Supply Chains
48. 8 FebUBI: Ed Dolan Responds
49. 7 FebTANSTAAFL
50. 7 FebUBI: Reply to Dolan
51. 7 FebHans Rosling RIP
52. 7 FebHas President Obama changed the GOP?
53. 6 FebHooper on Henry George on Protection or Free Trade
54. 6 FebA Surprising Supply of Communist Dupes
55. 5 FebHow to identify shocks
56. 4 FebNot all macroeconomic problems are recessions
57. 3 FebPolitics is Not Usually About Policy
58. 2 FebCotton from Teksa
59. 2 FebHow to Sell YIMBY to California and New York
60. 2 FebWe Wanted Workers…
61. 2 FebMacroeconomics makes progress, one dead prediction at a time
62. 1 FebSpeaking at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

January 2017

1. 31 JanThe Pros and Cons of the TPP
2. 31 JanThe Chamber of No
3. 30 JanVideo of My Talk at Kansas State
4. 30 JanPoverty is a far bigger problem than inequality
5. 30 JanLimited Government as Insurance
6. 29 JanA Wall
7. 28 JanThe retaliation begins
8. 28 JanJames Kwak on Minimum Wage
9. 28 JanPuzzled by the border tax
10. 27 JanTrump’s Toothless Pipeline Protectionism
11. 26 JanWhen does executive enforcement discretion spill over into lawmaking?
12. 26 JanTrump’s Immigration Policies: My Default Reaction
13. 26 JanHappy birthday, Leszek Balcerowicz!
14. 26 JanMy Kansas State Speech
15. 25 JanHow will the rise in nationalism impact the number of countries?
16. 25 JanBetter Market-Oriented Proposals That Reduce Income Inequality
17. 24 JanEnding the Requirement to Show Drug Efficacy
18. 24 JanThe Many Faces of Means-Testing
19. 24 JanMy Speech at Kansas State University
20. 23 JanCaplan-Wilkinson Universal Basic Income Debate
21. 23 JanBernanke on monetary offset and monetary policy impotence
22. 22 JanArrival: Xi Jinping, Davos man
23. 21 JanOminous Inaugural Addresses
24. 21 JanAS/AD: Another suggested interpretation
25. 20 JanTrumpism in China
26. 19 JanThe Most I’ll Admit
27. 18 JanChina trade has been a boon to the US, China, and the world.
28. 18 JanThe Great Californian Bag Surplus
29. 18 JanMunger on the Basic Income Guarantee
30. 17 JanThe Economics of the Affordable Car Insurance Act
31. 17 JanMy End-of-the-World Bet with Eliezer Yudkowsky
32. 16 JanWilliamson on Rogoff’s Case Against Cash
33. 16 JanThe peculiar persistence of monetary policy denialism
34. 14 JanLiquidity traps and stupidity traps
35. 14 JanWhy Are Drug Prices So High?
36. 13 JanWas Obamacare truly evil, or just a missed opportunity?
37. 12 JanWas USAID Behind Indian Government’s War on Cash?
38. 12 JanBorder tax bleg
39. 12 JanRecession, Stagnation, and Monetary Policy
40. 11 JanTrump’s Trade Trifecta
41. 11 JanMonetary offset isn’t really a choice, it’s built in to policy
42. 10 JanDeficits always matter
43. 10 JanHugh Hewitt on the Interest Deduction
44. 9 JanGruber on Romney and Obama
45. 8 JanSpending on consumption vs. spending on investment
46. 8 JanMilton Friedman: The Compromise Candidate
47. 7 JanMcArdle Advocates Paternalism
48. 6 JanStigler on Shaw on Income Equality
49. 5 JanWhat’s Wrong with Trade Restrictions in One Graph
50. 5 JanKevin Williamson on education and politics
51. 4 JanUtilitarianism: beyond victims and villains
52. 4 JanTrump’s Security: Government or Private
53. 3 JanCompensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality
54. 3 JanDave Barry Highlights
55. 2 JanFinland’s Universal Basic Income experiment
56. 2 JanThe Noise-to-Signal Ratio as a Metaphor for Deadweight Loss from Taxes
57. 1 JanStigler on Shaw on Marx
58. 1 JanThe Priority Resolution