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December 2018

  1. About that Cuban Life Expectancy
  2. Government regulation: Even worse than we thought
  3. Carter on The Case Against Education
  4. A New Year’s Resolution for Statocrats
  5. “Whatever the cost may be…” Really???
  6. How One Worker Adjusted to Job Loss
  7. Let’s not emphasize behavioral economics
  8. The Wall Probably Fails a Market Test
  9. Appeasing Hanson’s Critics
  10. Liberal Democracy and Its Reinventors
  11. Another neoliberal miracle
  12. Merry Christmas
  13. Merry Mathematical Christmas!
  14. Where are we overreacting today?
  15. Sunstein’s Book Has Strengths and Weaknesses
  16. No Economic Reason to Fear China
  17. A Friendly Amendment on the Border Wall
  18. The US is becoming more like Europe
  19. Arnold Kling on the Financial Crisis
  20. A Most Surprising Clause About “Neoliberalism”
  21. The Unpredictability of Deregulation
  22. Yet Another Education Bet
  23. Automation is Overrated (1996 Marxist Edition)
  24. If I knew the answer to that question . . .
  25. Slaying a New Dragon- Will it be Taxation or Deregulation?
  26. Some Good News on Newspapers
  27. Tucker Carlson is Wrong
  28. The many problems with public opinion
  29. When All Else Fails for Christmas
  30. Ain’t a Dime’s Worth of Difference?
  31. Who’s Afraid of Oscar Lewis?
  32. People, there’s a whole world out there
  33. Oil Prices and Inflation
  34. Bob Murphy Conversation with David Henderson
  35. Just blow it all up?
  36. Read “The Culture of Poverty: An Ideological Analysis”
  37. Haiti > Cuba
  38. Lower-Class Families and Evolutionary Psychology
  39. Regulation watch
  40. Is the “Culture of Poverty” Functional?
  41. Henderson versus Leon Panetta on the Long War
  42. What is the United States?
  43. Bitcoin is not a bubble
  44. A Conservative Confession
  45. Brits Could Have a Brexit Cake and Eat It Too
  46. What should be regarded as property?
  47. David Warsh on Selling Expenses versus Invisible Hand
  48. John Stossel Returns to His Roots
  49. Parmesan cheese and Sunbucks Coffee
  50. Branko Milonavic’s Confusion on Inequality
  51. Monetary policy effectiveness: Regimes and instruments
  52. Recession risk and the circularity problem
  53. Consumer Sovereignty: A Response to Greg Autry
  54. How should we think about the theft of intellectual property?
  55. Post Scriptum on Steel Tariffs
  56. Karl Marx on Modern Retirement and as Early Julian Simon
  57. Should the Fed purchase Treasuries only?
  58. Fight for 15% More Low-Skilled Jobs
  59. David Warsh on Adam Smith
  60. A Retreat from Reason (with an Aside from Rothbard)
  61. The Upside of Facebook
  62. Gratis Is Not Great
  63. The politics of budget deficits
  64. The dog that isn’t barking
  65. Will Mexico get the populist “full package”?

November 2018

  1. Fake Nous: Huemer Starts Blogging
  2. Fun with life expectancies
  3. Jeff Hummel on Slobodian
  4. Does the Chicken Tax Imply Prices Lower for Domestic than for Foreign Pickups?
  5. Is Capital Morally Superior to Labor?
  6. From the Vault: My Correspondence with Robert Lekachman
  7. How should we think about Russian meddling in the 2016 election?
  8. The Cryptocratic Future: Silicon Valley’s Uncreative Destruction
  9. Some thoughts on Powell’s speech
  10. “Is It Political?”
  11. Katie Haun versus Paul Krugman on Cryptocurrency
  12. Wiblin’s Checklist
  13. Trump’s Shocking Trade Preferences
  14. Automation causes trade
  15. A Kahnemanian Theory of Funerals
  16. Individuals Respond Rationally to Incentives
  17. The Wrong Lesson
  18. How to Push for Freedom
  19. How I Learned Classical Music from Cartoons and TV
  20. How important is economic growth? And can we do much about it?
  21. Of Oil Prices and Government Power
  22. What We’re #Thankful For
  23. Thanksgiving in Little Hill Village
  24. 19th Century France Was More Free Trade Than Britain
  25. AARP Opens the Window on Social Security Reform
  26. Tonto’s perspective
  27. Armen Alchian’s Prescient Advice to China
  28. How Is Immigration Like Nuclear Power?
  29. Liberty, Authority, and Giuliani
  30. Us and them
  31. You have them… Robots Don’t
  32. Wisdom from Mark Littlewood
  33. Freedom of the Press and of Speech: True and False
  34. Extremism in the defense of subsidized liberty is a (conservative) vice
  35. Why I Seek Converts
  36. Schrodinger’s Immigrant
  37. Wisdom from Armen Alchian
  38. The Wizard of OZK
  39. Italy vs the EU (again)
  40. Great Misinterpretations
  41. Is Setting a Price on Drugs the Same Thing as a Price Control?
  42. Teaching to the test
  43. Will Trump Join the “Fight for $15?”
  44. Open Borders as Global Justice: Sowell Edition
  45. Enemy of the People
  46. Some thoughts on global warming
  47. Good News on Iranian Sanctions
  48. The Siren of Democratic Fundamentalism
  49. Ideology: do we need it?
  50. You Didn’t Build That
  51. Against Veneration
  52. (Unconditional) prediction is overrated
  53. How a Powerful Woman Limited the Number of Stanford Women
  54. Are Matt Yglesias’s Words That Wise?
  55. Wise Words
  56. No more public mass transit infrastructure
  57. Competition Between the Obese and the Thin
  58. Election Boilerplate
  59. Murphy on Nordhaus versus the UN
  60. The Destructive Consequences of Socialism
  61. “Sanction”: The Triumph of Ayn Rand’s Worst Idea
  62. I don’t find “monetary disequilibrium” to be a useful concept
  63. Martin Anderson’s Striking Analogy on the Draft
  64. LibertyMatters on Pareto
  65. Are workers paid their marginal product? Should they be?
  66. Education Is a Passport to the Real Training

October 2018

  1. The 21st Century Explosion in Global Wealth
  2. The case for European health care
  3. Socialists Without a Plan
  4. Should the Fed pay attention to the stock market?
  5. Inside the Moderate Mind
  6. Facts, Opinions, and the Pew Research Center’s Pseudoscience
  7. Guns or Butter, Cannabis or Wine, and Other Choices
  8. Henderson Speech in Dallas on Friday
  9. Adam Smith Anti-Imperialist
  10. No equity/efficiency trade-off here
  11. Fed independence? Compared to what?
  12. Thick Margins
  13. Krugman and Public Choice
  14. What wage mystery?
  15. Jesse Norman on Adam Smith
  16. Do Good Anyway
  17. Optimality versus Fire
  18. A not so happy ending
  19. Wages in the U.S. Are Growing Faster than Many People Think
  20. The Ideal of Population Control
  21. Stubborn Detachments
  22. Are Cars Much Better than 50 Years Ago?
  23. Some Thoughts on the Apparent Demise of Sears
  24. Two questions about commercial real estate lending
  25. Biography of Christopher Sims
  26. I Need Some Muscle Over Here
  27. One Benefit of Tariffs
  28. What’s good for big tobacco . . .
  29. Meritocracy Without Borders: Sowell Edition
  30. Richard Nixon’s 1968 Campaign for President
  31. Does Immigration Shrink the Welfare State?
  32. The Government is NOT the Public
  33. A Fatal Flip
  34. Pro-business but not pro-market
  35. Climate Agnosticism Vs. Insurance Companies
  36. Niskanen Center Ignores William Nordhaus
  37. Escaping Poverty
  38. Food for followers
  39. Jenkins on Trumps Ducking Taxes
  40. Why recessions are hard to predict
  41. Rubin and Weinstein on the Intellectual Dark Web
  42. Banksy-ed?
  43. Tariffs and the Trade Deficit
  44. Crazy Rich Asians
  45. Decentralization and international affairs
  46. How Open Borders Died in Five Countries
  47. Britain’s David Henderson: an appreciation
  48. Henderson on Romer and Nordhaus in WSJ
  49. Right-Wing Grievance Studies
  50. Trade realism
  51. Ideology and the Interpretation of Reality
  52. Nordhaus and Romer
  53. Paul Romer on Economic Growth
  54. The Long Road to a Banana Republic?
  55. Cathy Young on Putin’s Russia
  56. Preferences and Choice: A Distinction
  57. Self-Destructive Democrats or Incentives at Work?
  58. Expansions are getting longer, booms are not (plus Iran deal bonus)
  59. The “cringe”
  60. Politics in the Classroom
  61. Sokal 2.0 as Ideological Turing Test
  62. Is maximizing “total wages” the right goal?
  63. The Current Job Market
  64. Longing for Oneness and Sameness
  65. Why a federal minimum wage?
  66. Henderson on CNBC
  67. Yimby
  68. Two Tactical Reasons to Show Business Some Love
  69. I Love the 21st Century
  70. The Poverty of Protectionism
  71. Signaling with the CFA
  72. A Cure For Our Health Care Ills: The Supply Side

September 2018

  1. Fuzzy sets and the biggest scandal in economics
  2. Supply and Demand Mysteriously Explain Price Changes
  3. The Vodnoy Paradox
  4. A Laffer Curve for government spending
  5. Again on Hazony
  6. What can we learn from the Bank of England?
  7. Daily Life in the Land of the Free
  8. Discounting Identity
  9. Retaliation Against Chinese Authoritarianism
  10. Tradeoffs Between Immigration and Reduced Freedom of Association
  11. Reihan Salam on immigration
  12. Singer vs. Horatio Alger
  13. Our Culture Welcomes You
  14. Dynamic Silicon Valley
  15. A “Me-Too” Externality?
  16. Without Government Intervention, Who Would Kill Our Pets?
  17. Thinking on the Margin With Our Sick Cat
  18. Micro vs. macro
  19. NIMBYism isn’t just about housing
  20. You Don’t Understand Our Culture
  21. Wages Have Grown More than Many of Us Thought
  22. Are Libertarians Crazy?
  23. Rogge’s Effect on Trade
  24. Does Monopsony Lead to Lower Prices?
  25. Rashomon in 2008
  26. Carens on Nozick on Immigration
  27. Of Mergers, Government Meddling, and Chocolate
  28. Are tariffs a big threat to China?
  29. Regulate the State
  30. ‘Democratic accountability’
  31. Central Planning in War
  32. A Birthday Tale
  33. Don Boudreaux’s Ah-Hah Moment
  34. A political realignment in Europe?
  35. Of Volkswagens and Bouquinistes
  36. Integrating immigrants
  37. Henderson on Krueger on Terrorism
  38. Logic, Theory, and Accounting
  39. Bring back monetarism!
  40. The new philanthropy
  41. The Berlin Cage: A Dialogue
  42. Should Antitrust Be Used Against Amazon?
  43. Education: The Betting Continues
  44. How Imports INCREASE GDP
  45. Never Forget But Also Learn
  46. Did Lehman cause the Great Recession?
  47. The Berlin Wall: In or Out?
  48. McCloskey on Norman
  49. My Election Bet
  50. When Wrong Wins
  51. Heroic Joshua Childress
  52. Me on BBC on Trade War
  53. Who should be allowed to deposit money at the Fed?
  54. In Praise of CBS Sunday Morning
  55. Fluency, Age, and Residence
  56. Vaccination: Mandatory or Voluntary
  57. Don’t confuse accounting with causal relationships
  58. Federal Employees Often Undercut Their Bosses
  59. Hazony’s nationalism
  60. The St. Louis Fed on Imports and GDP
  61. A World of Ingratitude
  62. A Bet On Civil War
  63. Trade Will Never Be Fair and Balanced
  64. WSJ Interview with George Gilder
  65. The Man Who Fell to Earth
  66. Let children play and self-organize
  67. An Extreme Example of Politico-Speak
  68. Vatican vs. Madison
  69. Mugged by regulation
  70. Lemieux: There’s No Such Thing as National Interest
  71. Trade and Force
  72. Social democracy isn’t socialism
  73. Live Free and Die?

August 2018

  1. Tate Lacey sees hints of NGDP targeting in Powell’s remarks
  2. Arizona Supremes Show Some Numeracy
  3. James Mirrlees RIP
  4. Who should pay for fixing externalities?
  5. An “Anti-School” Teacher on The Case Against Education
  6. A World of LBJs
  7. Epstein on Trump’s Influence on the Economy
  8. Job Search and the Laws of Wing-Walking
  9. The Free Trader as a Traitor
  10. Why Dodge the Question?
  11. Neoliberalism is not dead
  12. Buckley on Churchill
  13. Why so little inflation?
  14. Henderson on McCain Foreign Policy
  15. The problem with sticky price models
  16. Sobering Social Security Statistics
  17. A Partial Appreciation of Ayn Rand
  18. How to judge a judge
  19. Trump Just Shocked Me
  20. My Quartz News Interview
  21. Tragedy Private and Political
  22. The Silver Lining of Negationism
  23. Italy: The real problem is real
  24. Who Blew Up Congress?
  25. Lots of axes to grind
  26. Prominent Economists Who Wouldn’t Sign My 1990 Statement about War for Oil
  27. Charter cities in China
  28. Think on the Margin in Airport Lines
  29. Bill Gates Makes Classic Error
  30. Land Taxes: The Return of Henry George
  31. A Torch Kept Lit
  32. How You Can Find Socialism in a Capitalist World
  33. Interpreting public opinion
  34. Perverse Insurance Regulation
  35. Be skeptical of surveys of public opinion, example #441
  36. Wow
  37. Many Americans Don’t Like Free Speech
  38. The wisdom of Nick Rowe
  39. Does Valuing All of a Firm’s Stock at the Market Price Badly Understate the Firm’s Market Value?
  40. The US will “lose” a currency war
  41. The Clancy Smith Ludwig Erhard Cigar Story
  42. Let’s transfer more technology to China
  43. Without Government Intervention, Who Would Remove the Water Hazard
  44. A Disreputable Fringe
  45. Against the Electoral College (people, not cows)
  46. Pro-market but not pro-business
  47. My Scandinavian Tour
  48. Progress in Palestinians’ Property Rights
  49. Grudge, Vengeance, and Boredom
  50. Keynesian fiscal policy is dead
  51. Henderson’s Heroism, Part III
  52. Post hoc ergo propter hoc
  53. Me on Student Loans in Newsweek
  54. Pro-Market AND Pro-Business
  55. A man of principle for Spanish conservatives
  56. Henderson’s Heroism, Part II

July 2018

  1. “Disaster” and Construal Level Theory
  2. 3 misconceptions about the yield spread
  3. The Economist on the welfare state (and immigration)
  4. Inside Democrats, outside Republicans
  5. A Case Against a Carbon Tax For All Ideologies
  6. How much value does the Chinese government place on freedom?
  7. The Dynamic Case for Non-Compete
  8. Third Thoughts About Trigger Warnings
  9. Ignorance is bliss (for the EU)
  10. Peter Navarro is losing
  11. Henderson’s Heroism, Part I
  12. A Socratic Inventory
  13. Dan Klein, liberalism and the right
  14. Reynolds on the Return of Antitrust
  15. State capitalism, part 2
  16. Profit for Progress
  17. Why does Anyone in this City Need a Gun?
  18. Alexander Hamilton’s Machinations to Get Political Rival Gallatin
  19. The Whiskey Rebellion
  20. The moral hazard presidency?
  21. Political Correctness in San Francisco
  22. MAGAnomics: a 500 Day Appraisal
  23. Firm Functionalism
  24. Missing Something About Populism?
  25. Is Fed policy too easy or too tight?
  26. Radical Markets in Immigration
  27. The End of Liberalism
  28. The EU vs Google
  29. Solzhenitsyn True and False, Part III
  30. The chickens come home to roost
  31. Solzhenitsyn True and False, Part II
  32. Solzhenitsyn True and False, Part I
  33. FOMC’s Staff Is Wrong or Sloppy
  34. Michael Clemens and Kate Gough: Or Means Or
  35. Does immigration help the Dems?
  36. No Paper Is That Good
  37. The Problems with Epp and Borghetto
  38. Do People Want Liberty?
  39. Decentralization: Please Hold Your Applause
  40. Does a Capital Account Surplus Necessarily Imply a Trade Deficit?
  41. If it walks like a duck . . .
  42. Court-Packing Bet
  43. Tyler Cowen’s Educational Non Sequitur
  44. Half-Free Trade
  45. Are there any originalists?
  46. A Sad Anecdote about U.S. Immigration Policy
  47. Rick Geddes Explains the Postal Monopoly
  48. Orwellian Trafficking
  49. How Socialized Medicine Creates Dependence
  50. Process comes first
  51. Wilbur Ross’s and Charles de Gaulle’s Common Idea
  52. The Non-Conservation of Identity
  53. A Simple Illustration of Standard Trade Theory
  54. Two articles on Fed policy
  55. Identity Causes Prejudice
  56. Benefits of the American Revolution
  57. Making Americans Work for Foreigners
  58. Jesse Norman on Adam Smith and a letter to the FT
  59. McKenzie on behavioral economics
  60. Henderson’s First Law of Econometrics
  61. A Partial Defense of Wayne Crews

June 2018

  1. Is neoliberalism dead?
  2. The US and Turkey
  3. Does Direct to Consumer Advertising of Antidepressants Increase Net Value?
  4. End All Crime the Easy Way
  5. Us and them
  6. Is This Right on Global Warming?
  7. The Signals of Reassurance
  8. A stable cryptocurrency?
  9. CPI Overstates Inflation Even More than We Thought
  10. McCarthy’s Questions
  11. Discrimination and Harvard Discrimination
  12. Still Mine
  13. What causes recessions and “empressions”?
  14. A Mythical Micro Meeting
  15. Is economic nationalism even possible?
  16. Henderson on Radical Markets
  17. The Illusory Arbitrariness of Deploring?
  18. Henderson on Pinker
  19. Predicting Trade Wars
  20. The New York Times’ Shoddy Reporting
  21. Do poverty programs reduce poverty?
  22. Immigration: A Confession and a Value Judgment
  23. Whose Tariff Rates Are Higher?
  24. Does reality turn you into a statist?
  25. Breastfeeding and Incentives
  26. Out-foxed and conned?
  27. Why a State Typically Promotes Its Own Official Language
  28. Again on the new Italian government
  29. What is the influence of wealth on demand?
  30. Our New Design
  31. How to Believe in Free Speech
  32. Why the Singapore summit might be a net plus
  33. War Fighting and the Loss of Liberty
  34. Koyama Responds on State Capacity
  35. Why the Surveillance State is Dangerous
  36. Good and bad nationalism
  37. Chronology of Past Jobs I Have Had, Part 2
  38. Chronology of Past Jobs I Have Had, Part 1
  39. Good and bad pardons
  40. How Republican John Cox Can Win California
  41. Trump’s Dangerous Game
  42. The Underbelly of State Capacity
  43. FDR and George Warren
  44. Compassionate Diversified Capitalist
  45. Obama Trumped Trump
  46. Name Our Graphic Novel!
  47. Kevin Erdmann on the housing “bubble”
  48. Why We Work for the Chinese
  49. “State Capacity” is Sleight of Hand
  50. Szasz and the Statistics of Rare Events
  51. A Cure for Our Health Care Ills
  52. Trump’s Unemployment Tweet
  53. Neoliberalism is the worst system, except for all the others
  54. Henderson on BBC on Trade War
  55. Warriors Moneyball
  56. Job Creation in North Korea and America
  57. Teach My Books
  58. A Simple Idea to Rediscover
  59. Don’t be afraid to catch a falling knife

May 2018

  1. Why is the CEA So Effective?
  2. Franckly Absurd
  3. Caplan on Education
  4. Reading The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress again
  5. Franck on the French Terrorism Bet
  6. What “austerity”?
  7. I Win My French Terrorism Bet
  8. The Italian crisis
  9. The Scary Economics of Illegal Fentanyl
  10. Should central banks become banks?
  11. Friedman on Ending Government Programs
  12. Moral responsibility
  13. Robert Poole on Airline Deregulation
  14. Remember Your Goal
  15. An Extreme Case of Ignorance or Something Else?
  16. Hear Rob Wiblin
  17. Richard Pipes on why he left Washington
  18. Cash for bonds
  19. CAFE for Jobs
  20. Douglas Irwin on Trump’s Views on Trade
  21. The Education System: More Dysfunctional Than I Thought
  22. Jeff Hummel on David Andolfatto
  23. America bullies the world
  24. What Do Liberal Abusers Really Think?
  25. The new Italian government
  26. CBS Sunday Morning Is Often Implicitly Libertarian
  27. UBI vs. guaranteed jobs vs. wage subsidies
  28. One Possible Benefit of the Royal Wedding
  29. Workers Affect Worker Safety Too
  30. Markets are inhuman (and that’s a good thing)
  31. The Human Capital Purist Case Against Tax-Funded College
  32. Little Pink House Is a 9
  33. Caplan-Glaeser Debate Video
  34. The Beauty of Trade
  35. Safe haven or tight money?
  36. A Parable About ZTE
  37. Caplan-Glaeser Debate: My Opening Statement
  38. Futures Trading Brought Down Bitcoin Price
  39. Kennan on Card and Krueger and Obenauer and Nienburg
  40. Westernization vs. Islamization: My Bet with Jonathan Cast
  41. Questions about Japan
  42. Two Good Economists’ Letters
  43. 80 Years Before Card and Krueger
  44. How much idealism is ideal?
  45. Can Koch money hijack academia?
  46. Monetary policy (mostly) determines nominal wage growth
  47. Was Segregation of Movie Theaters Due to Laws Requiring It?
  48. Three contrarian opinions
  49. Another Thought About Why U.S. Wages Haven’t Risen Much
  50. Leland Yeager, RIP
  51. Irrational and Negligent
  52. A Recession Soon?
  53. Why Isn’t the Military a Stronger Signal?
  54. The Posner and Weyl Historical Error
  55. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing
  56. Henderson on Leland Yeager
  57. Very bad news on housing
  58. Income, Sex, and Moral Equivalence
  59. Murphy on National Defense as a Justification for Tariffs
  60. Cleopatra’s Contribution to Starvation
  61. Trade is not the problem
  62. Weissman Interview with Robin Hanson
  63. Milanovich on Marx’s influence
  64. Krugman on a Wage Puzzle
  65. The Neglected Supply Side in Health Care
  66. A Simple Black Swan Proof
  67. Does the recognition lag give the Fed an alibi for 2008?
  68. Roccia on The Case Against Education
  69. A Short Paragraph Full of Errors
  70. Corn or Oil: Choosing Sides
  71. Taleb’s Answers to My Extra Questions

April 2018

  1. The monetary economics of the 2040s, today
  2. Extra Questions for Taleb
  3. More Wisdom from Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
  4. Blinder’s Blunder on Social Security
  5. Corporate social responsibility vs laissez-faire?
  6. Target the unbiased forecast
  7. Exclusionary Inclusivity
  8. Macroprudential?
  9. A Eulogy for Corneliu Mateescu
  10. Henderson on Lars Larsen Show
  11. Tom Sowell Still Going Strong
  12. Leland Yeager, RIP
  13. Passionate Wisdom from Steven Pinker
  14. So you want my opinion?
  15. Unemployment
  16. Quickly Admitting You’re Wrong
  17. Building more highways will reduce traffic congestion
  18. I Found It at the Movies
  19. Friday Night Video: EconVersation on How Economists Helped End the Draft
  20. The US is unlikely to default
  21. A Collectivist Case for Trade, but not FREE Trade
  22. Beware of macro survey questions
  23. How People Get Good at Their Jobs: IDF Edition
  24. Reminder of Speech in Richmond Indiana Today
  25. An Economist Deals With a Cancelled Flight
  26. Divine Clarity
  27. Default or High Inflation?
  28. Thinking About War
  29. My WSJ Interview/Profile
  30. Don’t tax death
  31. Why I Find It Easy to Admit Mistakes
  32. Bleg: The Most Quotable Immigrant Memoirs
  33. Good News on Tuition from the Conversable Economist
  34. It’s that time of year again
  35. From Game Theory to Gas Theory
  36. Adam Smith on the Glory of War
  37. Adam Smith on the Bipartisan Support for Attacking Syria
  38. Henderson at Indiana University East
  39. Dr. Pritchett’s Six Bitter Pills
  40. What empirical evidence should we trust?
  41. What about Capital?
  42. Where Worker Productivity Really Comes From
  43. Back Alley Regulation
  44. McCloskey on Bauer
  45. Applying the Oranges Principle to Dieting and Chocolate
  46. When “deregulation” becomes crony capitalism
  47. Not Enough Women at Wikipedia?
  48. Auto Arbitrage
  49. My Conversations with Tyler and Taleb
  50. Conservatives against Judge Bork
  51. Cannon on How to Fix Obamacare
  52. What happened in 2004?
  53. We Rule: A Socratic Dialogue
  54. Janitorial Studies in South Korea
  55. Henderson and Torres on Immigration
  56. Robert P. Murphy on Economists and Statistical Tests
  57. What the 1% and 99% Leave Out
  58. Leftist Lessons of The Case Against Education
  59. FDR’s immaculate inflation
  60. My Talk at CSUMB

March 2018

  1. Gordon Tullock Bio
  2. Why stop at price level targeting?
  3. Why the Chicken Crossed the Road
  4. From liberalism to illiberalism
  5. Inside the Monkey Trap
  6. Wise Wager?
  7. Britschgi on Mass Transit
  8. EconTalk and Chalk: Implementation
  9. Labor Hoarding and Labor Demand Elasticity
  10. Salinas Event on Immigration
  11. How much leverage does America have in trade?
  12. Cowen Clarifies a Little on Subways
  13. The Putin Illusion
  14. A Catalan arrest too much?
  15. Would a Parental Leave Benefit Increase Support for Social Security? Should We Want That?
  16. How I Self-Police My Work
  17. Who Has a Right to Your Body?
  18. Getting out in front of the parade
  19. Henderson on How We Dodged a Bullet
  20. Back to Basics: Whom Does a Protectionist Measure Hit?
  21. What if Trump wins the China IP dispute?
  22. Henderson on George Melloan
  23. Forza Italia!
  24. Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate Video
  25. Henderson at Mississippi State
  26. Me at Trinity
  27. Reminder on Troy Speech Today
  28. Steelmanning the Iraq War
  29. The West was right about China
  30. The Danger of Intellectual Ruts
  31. Uber Scam?
  32. Coase and Krugman
  33. Henderson at Troy University
  34. Who are we?
  35. Red Sparrow’s tweets
  36. Happy Open Borders Day!
  37. Me on C-SPAN
  38. Functional capitalism
  39. What About a Travel Ban to Reduce the Trade Deficit?
  40. Priors and the Death Penalty
  41. Reminder on Brescia Speech Today
  42. Norway’s peculiar decision
  43. Socialization Via Videogames
  44. A War on the Rich Won’t Help the Poor
  45. No Kid of Mine is Going to Major in Archaeology!
  46. Japan and market monetarism
  47. Frank Furedi on Italian populism
  48. Henderson Speech at Brescia University
  49. The letter and the spirit of the law
  50. Letter From a Former Student
  51. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
  52. MIT Technology Review’s Huge Logical Fallacy
  53. Another Case Against Education
  54. Inside the MBA
  55. Henderson on Gary Cohn’s Resignation
  56. Two kinds of supply shocks
  57. Italian elections update
  58. The National-Security Argument for Protectionism
  59. Capitalism vs. Socialism: General Thoughts on Bruenig
  60. Bio of Gordon Tullock
  61. A Missed Opportunity for Mutual Learning
  62. Capitalism vs. Socialism: Reply to Bruenig
  63. Landsburg on the Safeguard Clause
  64. 1973: Utopia or dystopia?
  65. Of Diet Cokes and Brain-Focused Economics
  66. Capitalism vs. Socialism: The Bruenig-Caplan Debate
  67. Compassionate Jordan Peterson
  68. Imagine not knowing who the President is
  69. A quick update on Italian elections
  70. An Intruder Confesses
  71. The new fault lines
  72. If You Hurt Us, We’re Going to Hurt Us Too
  73. Trade in the CEA’s Annual Report
  74. Trade war? What could go wrong?
  75. Senator Flake’s Version of Due Process
  76. A Question of Talent Arbitrage

February 2018

  1. Of Ad Hominems and Incentives
  2. Don’t give them anywhere to hide
  3. Medical School: A Whistleblower’s Story
  4. Answering the wrong question
  5. EconTalk and Chalk?
  6. A Bloom-ish Defense of Education
  7. That great classical liberal novel you never heard of
  8. Americans are richer and happier* than Europeans
  9. Caplan versus Hanushek
  10. Reply to Tyler on The Case Against Education
  11. Bad news from China
  12. Roberts and Peterson on Human Connection
  13. Don’t use the Phillips Curve, destroy it
  14. A Simplistic Model of Public Policy
  15. Politics, complexity, and confusion in the social media sphere
  16. Will the Swiss adopt 100% reserve banking?
  17. Restricting Speech for Nationalist Reasons
  18. The Double Whammy of Uselessness
  19. You get what you pay for
  20. A Balanced View of Trump
  21. Do deficits matter?
  22. Harassment: A Keyhole Solution
  23. Reminder: Talk at Webber International University
  24. Henderson on Economic Inequality
  25. There’s no success like failure
  26. Against Argumentative Definitions
  27. Italian elections update
  28. I LOVE the Olympics
  29. Will Trump reverse Obama’s H-4 program?
  30. Speech at Webber International University in Florida
  31. Is Education Worth It? My Opening Statement for the Caplan-Hanushek Debate
  32. Posner and Weyl on Sponsoring Immigrants
  33. Never reason from an interest rate spread
  34. Hurray for the Imminent End of Polio
  35. Henderson and Furman on Kudlow
  36. Question for Scott
  37. Please, don’t experiment with monetary policy
  38. The Tragedy of Modern Academia
  39. Beach Critiques The Case Against Education
  40. Why are non-whites so libertarian?
  41. Perspective on Yellen
  42. Why Bryan Caplan Won His Gasoline Bet
  43. The Case Against Education: The EconTalk Podcast
  44. Searching for the Individual
  45. I Win My Long-Run Gas Price Bet
  46. Caligula’s Wish
  47. NYU Interview + AEI Debate
  48. Is Paul Krugman now too conservative for our textbooks?
  49. Economics Everywhere Even in Sports
  50. Me in the Los Angeles Times
  51. The Tea Party is Dead
  52. Don’t use monetary policy to boost wages
  53. We’re Number 17
  54. What would a scientific cigarette policy look like?
  55. Oxfam or Oxgov?
  56. A Safe Harbor on the Dark Side of Democracy
  57. RIP Nick Phillipson
  58. Richer than Rockefeller?
  59. Charlie Brown and the GOP
  60. Compliance Costs of Federal Income Taxes Are Over 1 percent of GDP
  61. An Awkward College Question
  62. Beckworth interviews Neel Kashkari
  63. Male Uber Drivers Earn More and It’s Not Due to Discrimination
  64. Learning Transfer in Athletics
  65. Me at NYU
  66. Henderson on BBC Newsday
  67. Southern Blacks Voted With Their Feet
  68. David Balan Reviews The Case Against Education
  69. The National Review on Immigration
  70. An Immigration Puzzle Solved
  71. Liberty in David Hume: A Controversy
  72. Could Driverless Trucks Create More Trucking Jobs?
  73. Good News on the Economy
  74. Monetary policy: The view from the markets
  75. I Win My Recession Bet
  76. Government Innumeracy
  77. Reflections on Carey at Cato
  78. Further thoughts on Friedman’s Presidential address

January 2018

  1. Merton Miller Was Principled on Principal and Interest
  2. A Bad Solution to Very Real Problems
  3. Henderson versus Caplan on Responding to Bored Students
  4. Paul Peterson on Compulsory Schooling and His Best Teacher
  5. What My University President Says
  6. My Interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7. Free the Jesuit Slaves!
  8. My Cato Talk
  9. A dilemma for libertarians: Should central banks be strong or weak?
  10. Confessions of a Voc-Tech Teacher
  11. A Frequent Confusion and the Yo-Yo Economic Model
  12. Kling on Rules for Life
  13. Nebraskans are protected by the 4th amendment
  14. The Economics of Canada’s Coming Marijuana Legalization
  15. Henderson on Monopsony Power in Labor Markets
  16. Two Comments on Coy
  17. Bullseye!
  18. Burger King Has It Its Way
  19. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  20. My Interview with Princeton University Press
  21. My Interview with Murphy-Lara
  22. Henderson Interview with John Batchelor and Larry Kudlow
  23. Huemer on Ultra-Ineffective Altruism
  24. Alternative Money University
  25. Hope for Italy? Well, hope never dies…
  26. Tomorrow’s Events
  27. Right to Work Works
  28. We’re Number 11, We’re Number 11!
  29. A Deal on Immigration is Most Unwise
  30. The Laughable, the Divine, and the Baseball Diamond
  31. Henderson on Tillerson
  32. Friedman’s Presidential Address after 50 years
  33. “Ice is not Ice” and the Limits of Conversation
  34. Gillespie Interviews Me on The Case Against Education
  35. Elephant in the Brain on Religious Hypocrisy
  36. Secession and liberty: A reply to Pierre Lemieux
  37. Response to a New Zealander
  38. Hope for Italy?
  39. Just who are those “consumers”?
  40. Are the Tax Cuts and Increased Wages and Bonuses Connected?
  41. A Golden Journey
  42. A tax by any other name . . .
  43. The Big Victims of Drug Prohibition
  44. Carillion and the reputation of privatisations
  45. For a Free Market in Plasma
  46. Whereof One Cannot Speak, Thereof One Must Be Silent
  47. For Individual Liberty, Size Does Not Matter – or So It Seems
  48. The Case Against Education vs. Libertarian Education Reform
  49. Affirmative action for drug pushers? (I say yes)
  50. Hillary Clinton Was Wrong
  51. Welcoming Prejudice
  52. Squalor and immigration
  53. Has President Trump Been Very Consequential?
  54. But or Therefore?
  55. Both Sides–BDS and Israel’s Government–are Wrong on BDS
  56. What do people believe about interest rates?
  57. The Case Against Education at Cato
  58. The Best of Econlib: 2017 (cont.)
  59. Economic Freedom via Freedom of Speech
  60. A blind spot at the New York Times
  61. Henderson on Trump
  62. Henderson on The New Tax Law
  63. Henderson and Williams on Free to Exchange
  64. The Political Firm
  65. Jonathan Weisman’s Bias
  66. Crime and civil liberties
  67. Craigslist Reduced Female Homicide Rate by Over One Sixth
  68. Why I’m not a progressive
  69. The Best of Econlib: 2017 (cont.)
  70. Kathleen Wynne is Wrong
  71. If you can read one article on Italy only
  72. Play the Hand You’re Dealt
  73. The Unintended Consequences of Drug Reimportation
  74. We should focus on building “unaffordable” housing
  75. The Best of Econlib: 2017 (cont.)
  76. Mea Culpa on Fourth Amendment Showdown
  77. An Ignorant Plot?
  78. The Best of Econlib: 2017
  79. A digital ID for all?
  80. Robert Murphy Helps Resolve an Economic Paradox
  81. I Win All My Ebola Bets

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