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December 2019

  1. Dave Barry on Tariffs on Chinese Goods
  2. The Social Conservatism of Hollywood
  3. The Five (okay, ten) Essential Books in Austrian Economics
  4. Defending Some of Stephen Moore’s Ideas (Sort of)
  5. David Siegel on pain medication
  6. What I’ve Been Reading Over the Holidays
  7. Advice on Writing
  8. Good news; Chinese defaults are rising rapidly
  9. Some of My Top Books
  10. The Crankiest Woman in England: Elizabeth Freke and her Money
  11. Indian Health Service For All?
  12. My 5 favorite books
  13. My Five Favorite Novels
  14. Who Chooses? A Short Appreciation of Cost and Choice
  15. Four Economic Lessons from the Nativity
  16. How Government Agencies Hamper Infrastructure Development
  17. The new spending bill is a disaster
  18. Economics as the Study of Peaceful Human Cooperation and Progress
  19. My Hayek Memorial Lecture
  20. Five Books to talk classical liberalism with your family over the holidays
  21. Andrew Yang is Halfway There
  22. MORE Econlib Holiday Reading
  23. Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
  24. Ryan Murphy’s “Markets Against Modernity”
  25. Sunset, Earthrise
  26. NAFTA 0.0
  27. Another War on Drugs and on Certain Citizens
  28. The Meaning of Generations of Winter
  29. Holiday Reading Roundup
  30. Trump’s Proposed Wealth Tax and Incentives
  31. Why so little home building?
  32. Nationalism and corruption
  33. The Resource Costs of Fiat Money Exceed Those of a Gold Standard
  34. California Government Pensions and Opportunity Costs
  35. Five Biographies of Economists
  36. Providing for Customers
  37. Why trade wars don’t work
  38. Sunk Costs in Foreign Policy
  39. Freedom of movement and the police state to be
  40. Good news for Trump
  41. Was There a Housing Bubble?
  42. Compared to what?
  43. Is the Fall of Unemployment Good?
  44. My Boise State Interview
  45. The Five Best Introductory Books in Austrian Economics
  46. Synchronous politics?
  47. Two Lessons from the Pensacola Murders
  48. Explain Your Extremists
  49. Is the “War on Tech” just around the corner?
  50. The Rise of Private Property in America, Part 2
  51. Paul Volcker’s legacy
  52. Ask a Stupid Question: Big Problem with a Recent Survey
  53. The business cycle is dying
  54. The Economist Names Open Borders a Best Book of 2019!
  55. Zucman’s Statistical Sleight of Hand
  56. The Basics: Anarchy and Public Goods
  57. The Assault on Wealth
  58. Forgotten or Neglected Classics in Economics that Modern Students Should Be Reading
  59. Uber banned in London, too
  60. Priors and Prejudice
  61. Facts about life expectancy (true and false)
  62. #EconlibReads continues
  63. The Rise of Private Property in America
  64. Look for the Union Label, not the Gender Role
  65. Nasty, Brutish, and Long
  66. Stress test the government?
  67. Five Books on Nature, Nurture, and Culture
  68. The immigration debate is misleading, Steve Davies argues
  69. Henderson and Hooper on Why Some Drug Prices Are Too Low
  70. Don’t expect too much from sanctions
  71. Public Health, Parens Patriae , and Sex
  72. Another reason why income is misleading

November 2019

  1. Highlights from “The Case for Free Trade”
  2. There is no Deep State
  3. Five Books to Supplement Teaching Undergraduate Economics
  4. The State as Our Father (or Loving Mother)
  5. Some Pre-Thanksgiving Good News
  6. Freiman: Why Not Purge Them?
  7. Who are the elites?
  8. How Much do the Chinese Fail to Comply with WTO?
  9. Deludedly Deeming Deregulation a Disaster
  10. Fooled by Algebra
  11. Bill Gates and Ohio auto parts factory workers
  12. The National Academy of Sciences on Native/Foreign Intermarriage
  13. From Sewer Workers to Literary Men
  14. Responses to Comments on My Review of Open Borders
  15. The return of “might makes right”
  16. Helen Dale on liberalism and technocracy
  17. Abba Lerner’s Thoughts on Consumer Sovereignty
  18. The best critiques are from within
  19. Indirect Finance and the Cousin Eddie Problem
  20. Elizabeth Warren’s 68.7 Percent Tax on Capital Income
  21. New Videos on Adam Smith
  22. Isn’t It Odd? The Project on Smith, Hume, Liberalism and Esotericism
  23. Inside Bill’s Brain
  24. Immigration Research for the Future?
  25. Let’s have more talk of “magic money trees”
  26. My Five Favorite Novels with Economics Themes
  27. Really Awful Wall Street Journal Headline
  28. So If Incentives Are Overrated…
  29. About those Republican judges
  30. Deirdre’s Test
  31. Hive Mind and Open Borders
  32. Max Zahn’s Zinger
  33. The Economics of Antipathy and Stereotyping
  34. Income tax rates are a misleading indicator
  35. The Beauty of Freedom, #12,971
  36. Milton Friedman
  37. Why has the natural rate of unemployment fallen to such a low level?
  38. Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty
  39. McCloskey on Liberalism and Democracy
  40. Review of Open Borders
  41. Putting the fun back into being a fungus
  42. Five Books on the Financial Crisis: Kling’s Favorites
  43. The Economics of Pleasure and Pain
  44. DiLorenzo, Gulker, and Henderson on RT on Socialism
  45. Abstract for My IEA Talk
  46. Theistic Evolution and Atavism Explanations
  47. Gordon Tullock’s Generosity
  48. Can Republicans Afford to be Pro-Immigrant?
  49. Regulation creates concentration
  50. Duflo and Banerjee’s Deficient Thinking on Incentives, Part II
  51. The Rhetoric of the Paris Agreement
  52. Prohibitions: Sex, Markets, and Commodification
  53. Freiman: How Is Voting Like the SAT?
  54. The bubble in phony bubble calls
  55. Civil Discussion at My Boise State University Talk
  56. My Vivid Memories of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
  57. Cheer the Fall of the Wall
  58. Duflo and Banerjee’s Deficient Thinking on Incentives, Part I
  59. Dalibor Rohac for non-nationalist conservatism
  60. Why does Australia have mini-recessions?
  61. Open Borders is a New York Times Bestseller!
  62. The Journal’s Muddled Reasoning on Illegal Drugs
  63. Caplan-Weinersmith Ask Me Anything Tonight!
  64. The One Big Fact that Overawes All Doubts
  65. Pay attention to what people are not talking about
  66. Nonlinear Parking Pricing Now!
  67. The China (manipulation) shock and the (mostly) Trump fiscal shock
  68. Randal O’Toole’s Slam Dunk
  69. The Rent Is Too Damn High lights
  70. Countries are not anecdotes
  71. Banning E-Cigarette Flavors
  72. Reminder About My Monday Talk at Boise State
  73. Trump failed to save Big Coal; can Warren succeed?
  74. Trump’s Economic Policies: An Assessment, Part II
  75. The Central Planning Myth
  76. Open Borders in Foreign Policy
  77. Giuliani’s Well-Deserved Disgrace
  78. Sometimes Drug Prices Are Too Low

October 2019

  1. Do spending caps work?
  2. Do You Talk About It in Open Borders Yes!
  3. America Needs Defenders Who Understand Freedom
  4. Boise State Speech Next Monday
  5. Open Borders for Liberals
  6. Open Borders for Conservatives
  7. Stall speed and mini-recessions
  8. How Republicans Can Win Back the Immigrant Vote
  9. Rent-Seeking: Not Just a Public Problem
  10. Open Borders : Hopes and Fears on Release Day
  11. Vladimir Bukovsky RIP
  12. How Open Borders Measures Up
  13. Rohac on Brexit
  14. Larry Summers Does a First-Rate Economic Analysis
  15. Duflo and Banerjee advocate bigger government
  16. Monetary offset is more mainstream than you think
  17. The Autocrat and the Free Press: A Model
  18. Midnight Foreign Policy?
  19. DEA Forms Drug Cartel
  20. #EconlibReads: The Saga Continues
  21. Rod Long on the Plight of the Worker
  22. Can tariffs have a deflationary impact?
  23. Prohibitions: Mind Drugs and Policy
  24. Are We Getting Smarter? : Thoughts on the Flynn Effect
  25. Making Canada Great for the first time
  26. The Public Choice Problems with Carbon Taxes
  27. The Roots of Inertia
  28. Will “soak the rich” make Democratic states feel blue?
  29. Liberty City
  30. Getting Rich on Low Pay
  31. Theory and practice
  32. Don’t Ignore the Median Voter Theorem
  33. Trump’s Economic Policies, Part I
  34. How Crackpotted is Your Economics?
  35. Adam Silver Cut No Constitutional Corners
  36. Is It Sufficient to Just Believe?
  37. Exporters Make Money
  38. Conformity and Perspective in Nickel and Dimed
  39. Is the UK about to become Canada?
  40. A Coupon for Kids
  41. The Latest Nobel Prize in Economics
  42. Students Selling Notes, Part 2
  43. Credibility, predictability, consistency
  44. Build, Barbara, Build: Reflections on Nickel and Dimed
  45. Emergency and Shortages in Altruistic California
  46. Friedrich Engels Answers the Question All Libertarians Have Been Asked
  47. Rational expectations isn’t the problem; it’s the solution.
  48. Did Sustainable Atlas Shrug?
  49. Chicago Does Not Understand Incentives
  50. Daniel Kuehn on Aaron Director
  51. Introduction to Economics- Best Books?
  52. The complex roots of anti-Asian bigotry
  53. An Economist Buys Lunch on the Margin
  54. Students Selling Notes
  55. They Know Better
  56. Prohibitions: Mind drugs & addiction
  57. How the Jones Act Harms America
  58. Mao Is Murder
  59. Killing two birds with one stone
  60. Residential versus Commuter Colleges and Intersectionality
  61. Poverty : A Ranking of What I’ve Been Reading
  62. Should presidents make policy?
  63. Defending Milton Friedman From James Buchanan and Peter Boettke
  64. “Current-Stuff Surplus” Is Another Way of Saying “Trade Deficit”
  65. An Ode to Amazon
  66. Do People Want to Be Free?
  67. Mood Affiliation or Confirming Evidence?
  68. Do the “ends justify the means”?
  69. What the Saudi oil shock tells us about monetary policy
  70. Letter from a Pakistani Homeschooler
  71. Matt Stoller Responds
  72. James M. Buchanan’s Centennial: A Student’s Personal Tribute
  73. Making a Bad Situation Worse: Where Lee’s Right and Where Lee’s Wrong
  74. The Pursuit of Nuttiness
  75. Everyone’s a monetarist (except when it comes to money)
  76. Making the Best of a Bad Situation? Gary Lee on the Decline of Marriage
  77. American Sanctions: Why Foreigners Obey

September 2019

  1. A Trade “Level Playing Field” Isn’t So Great
  2. Politics is the problem—trade is the answer
  3. The Not-So-Just World Hypothesis
  4. University of Ottawa Speech on Thursday
  5. Are libertarians being purged?
  6. The Essence of Lenin
  7. Prohibitions: Polygamy
  8. What does the US want from China?
  9. Globalism in 60 seconds
  10. The curse of size
  11. Quiggin Needs a Third Lesson
  12. The Left Hemisphere Running Amok
  13. Trump’s UN Speech: An Introduction to Politics and LGBTQ
  14. Upcoming Events
  15. Be careful what you wish for
  16. Marianne Williamson Gets Her Way and Doesn’t Realize It
  17. Russ Roberts on CPI Bias
  18. Is That Cricket?
  19. So you don’t believe in using PPP data?
  20. Buying Boots
  21. Common Rationales for Prohibitions
  22. Terrorism vs. Just War Theory
  23. Stoller’s Hatchet Job on Aaron Director
  24. The Great Chinese Firewall
  25. Cass Sunstein’s Critique of Samantha Power
  26. Bubble mutual funds
  27. Free to Trade with China (and Anyone Else): A Response to Michael Brendan Dougherty
  28. On Steve Davies’s new book
  29. Germany’s real business cycle
  30. The Fault Is Not in Our Stuff But in Ourselves
  31. The Balance Sheet of Supply Side Economics
  32. The Great Successor : Inside North Korea
  33. The market finds a way
  34. A Celebration of the U.S. Constitution
  35. Malevolence and Misunderstanding
  36. Regulation and/or Geopolitics
  37. Some Basic Arithmetic on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
  38. CPI Bias and Happiness
  39. Prohibitions: Constitutionalism and Democracy
  40. The Problem of France
  41. Samantha Power: The Woman of System
  42. Can innovation be sped up?
  43. Prohibitions: Frontiers of liberty & markets
  44. The unsung success of Japan’s recent fiscal policy
  45. Michael Grossberg on Libertarian Futurism and Pretty Much Everything
  46. You’re All A Bunch of Socialists
  47. 9/11, Six Years Later
  48. Monopolize the Pretty Lies
  49. Power to the Children and Hail to the State!
  50. Michael Trump or Donald Dukakis
  51. The proper goal of education is utility, not learning
  52. Tetlock the Prophet
  53. Morality and ECON 101
  54. Me on Andrew Yang on PBS Website
  55. Legendary Lands
  56. Donald Trump versus Adam Smith
  57. The Domino Theory Reconsidered
  58. Murphy on Henderson and Carbon Taxes
  59. Is Fed policy “premised importantly” on market monetarism being true?
  60. Author on British Inheritance Misses Two Important Points
  61. Is the State Your Father or Your Mother?
  62. Last Word from Karelis
  63. Does price stickiness explain “lowflation”?
  64. Paul Romer Likes Anarchy and Thinks It’s Government
  65. Arnold Kling’s ex-Communist Mother’s Testimony
  66. What Signals the Value of a Book- Sales versus Prizes
  67. UBI: Some Early Experiments
  68. You’re Not Using the Money for Anything
  69. My Last Word on Karelis
  70. Extended Warranty Prices as a Market Measure of Quality
  71. The coming technocracy
  72. The “Culture of Poverty” and the War on Poverty
  73. Little Pink House: Best Classical Liberal Movie Ever?
  74. Labor Day Vignettes
  75. The Purpose of a Gun Is Not to Kill
  76. Codifying Our Worst Impulses: The Ideas that Started World War II

August 2019

  1. A UBI will not eliminate poverty
  2. What can go wrong with Bitcoin, Libra and other cryptocurrencies?
  3. Two Poems by David R. Henderson
  4. Communism and Fascism
  5. Using monetary policy as a political weapon
  6. Karelis Responds to You
  7. Update on Trees and Global Warming
  8. Why Turkeys Are an Endangered Species
  9. Great Moments in the Labor Theory of Value
  10. A trade war is not a carbon tax
  11. Karelis Responds to Me
  12. Language trumps money
  13. When Was This Written?
  14. An Ah Hah Moment While Shopping
  15. Rights as Government Power and the Kiss of Judas
  16. There’s no reason to go heterodox
  17. Not all pessimistic theories can be true
  18. David Koch, RIP
  19. Joys of the City: Watching the World Go By
  20. How soon we forget
  21. Self-interest and Capitalism Are Not Synonymous
  22. A Carbon Tax Is Not a Slam Dunk
  23. Ask the Author: Questions for Karelis
  24. Mallaby on Grant’s Bagehot
  25. Industrial Policy: Shouldn’t we actively encourage X, rather than just passively allow Y?
  26. The Persistence of Poverty : The Spinoffs (Part 8)
  27. 21st century problems
  28. Dominance: Material vs. Rhetorical
  29. Dan Klein on Sweden
  30. Bernie Sanders Didn’t Say It
  31. Keynes’ Understated Criticism of FDR’s New Deal
  32. And They Want to be Sovereign!
  33. How has Keynes’s liquidity trap theory held up over time?
  34. Great Moments in Price Discrimination
  35. Ethnic Studies and Hxrstory: Not Doubleplusgood
  36. What is the lesson from the East Asian miracle?
  37. The New York Times Is Truly Messed Up
  38. A Day That Should Live in Infamy
  39. Yield Curve Inversion: Are Investors Really “Fleeing to Safety” from a Looming Recession?
  40. The Persistence of Poverty : It’s Complicated (Part 7)
  41. Italy’s new political crisis
  42. Easy credit and tight money
  43. Soldiers as Price Takers
  44. Capla-Con 2019
  45. El Paso etc.: A New Behavioral-Economics Bias?
  46. A Simple Economic Question About Guns
  47. The Persistence of Poverty : The Right, the Wrong, and the Overstated (Part 6)
  48. The hardest problem in public policy
  49. Reinhardt’s Misleading Data on Drug Price Differences
  50. Reflections on an Interview with Bernie Sanders
  51. The Persistence of Poverty : Karelis’ Practice (Part 5)
  52. The New Tory Zeitgeist: Security over Freedom?
  53. Should we discourage medical malpractice lawsuits?
  54. Some Slight Freedom of Speech in Canada
  55. Blind faith in government
  56. Casey Mulligan on Trump versus Reagan on Trade
  57. Dalibor Rohac on Brexit
  58. The Persistence of Poverty : Karelis’ Theory (Part 4)
  59. Socialism Does Indeed Suck
  60. Again on The Mule
  61. Reverse Birth Control: A Thought Experiment
  62. The Deep-seated Authoritarian Impulse
  63. Think of low interest rates as an outcome, not a tool
  64. Are Trade Wars “Good and Easy to Win”?
  65. The Persistence of Poverty : Karelis vs. Six Standard Stories (Part 3)
  66. Neil deGrasse Tyson is Correct about the Numbers
  67. The laws of economics cannot be wished away
  68. The Persistence of Poverty : Karelis’ Puzzle (Part 2)
  69. The Mule
  70. Casey Mulligan on Trump versus Reagan
  71. Central banks should sell money, not give it away
  72. Madman or Madwoman in Power: A Simple, Realistic, Urgent Idea
  73. Kevin O’Leary’s Separation Theorem
  74. Beyond victims and villains
  75. Malamet discusses Hazony
  76. Sweetness and Light: A Tale of Sugar Regulation

July 2019

  1. Eight claims about interest rates
  2. Reflections on the Democratic Debate
  3. Something Worse than Faction
  4. The Persistence of Poverty Book Club (Part 1)
  5. Peter Thiel’s pivot
  6. Why Libertarians Distrust Political Power
  7. Socialism Sucks , and Everyone Ought to Know It
  8. Laura Ling on Sanctions on North Korea
  9. Tyler Cowen’s Failed Critique of Cuts in State Funding
  10. The Bayesian Prisoners’ Dilemma
  11. DeMuth on nationalism
  12. Biography of Richard H. Thaler is Online
  13. News from 2021
  14. Consumption and GDP
  15. Britain is an Outlaw Nation
  16. Boris Johnson- any reason for optimism?
  17. Fernandez-Villaverde, Spain, and Gravity
  18. Why the focus on non-residential investment?
  19. Brexit and the Divine Right of the Majority
  20. Fernandez-Villaverde on Spain’s Economic Success
  21. A (strong) letter on inheritance taxes
  22. Winship Psychoanalyzes Economic Pessimism
  23. Recent studies of QE
  24. One Giant Leap
  25. The Discouraged Suitor
  26. The JEC report on the economy
  27. The Case Against Education : Now in Paperback
  28. Political issues of the 2020s
  29. Somewhere Inside Humanity
  30. “España Es Como Una Madre”
  31. Minimum Wage: A Most Remarkable Belief
  32. Reflections from Spain
  33. Health care subsidies are almost impossible to reform
  34. Why both liberals and conservatives will lose on health care (in the short run)
  35. Against Tu Quoque
  36. Good intentions are not enough
  37. Henderson on French Government’s 3% Tax on Techs
  38. Public opinion regarding cash for kidneys
  39. Do longer expansions store up trouble for the future?
  40. The Broader Effects of Trade and Tech
  41. An epic example of wealth destruction
  42. Anecdotes vs. Data in the Trade War
  43. The market is the dog; the Fed is the tail
  44. Trump’s Deregulatory Successes
  45. Arthur Hailey on How the Profit Motive Undercuts Prejudice
  46. Appointing justices “such as Gorsuch and Kavanaugh”
  47. #EconlibReads: Capitalism and Freedom
  48. Prescription Drug Prices: Retaliatory Socialism
  49. Don’t ask the citizenship question
  50. Two more widely held views
  51. A Delight in Despotism: The Case of Vaping
  52. Independence Day Tributes
  53. Happy July 4th
  54. Historically Hollow: The Cries of Populism
  55. Founders Turning in their Graves
  56. When doves fly
  57. In Memory of Crony Capitalist Lee Iacocca
  58. What’s in a Name?
  59. If the Popular Vote Had Been What Mattered, Would Hillary Have Won?
  60. Is Marianne Williamson Crazy?
  61. Jencks on Incentives and Single Motherhood
  62. Antitrust and Ideology
  63. The Most Important Blog Post Today
  64. Why not ‘individualism’?
  65. Two areas where I am out of step
  66. Jim Acosta Shows His Bias

June 2019

  1. Tim Herrera’s Confusion About How to Get Rich
  2. The greatness of Milton Friedman
  3. Monetize Your Anger
  4. A Move to the Left?
  5. Against political art
  6. Immigrant Remittances are Private Foreign Aid
  7. Letter to the Presidential Candidates: It’s Time to Tax Others More
  8. Questions on Climate Change: Bjorn Lomborg on EconTalk
  9. £s for Brexit
  10. War by any other means
  11. Alan Reynolds on the Disappearing Middle Class
  12. A Chicken Game Between Two Governments
  13. Macro theory for all times and all places
  14. Does the Fed set monetary policy in Hong Kong?
  15. Henderson on Uwe Reinhardt’s Last Book
  16. Murray on the Prevalence of “Poverty”
  17. Henderson on Cowen on Big Business
  18. The Trump administration’s advice to Malaysia
  19. Giving USA Gets the Incentives Half Right
  20. Ominous News from the San Francisco Fed
  21. Poke out one of my eyes
  22. Martial Negligence in Game of Thrones and Beyond
  23. A Mistake in the Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle
  24. Freedom to travel
  25. The Spectator and the Market Miracle
  26. Ariely Misses an Obvious Economic Explanation
  27. The Poverty of Protectionism and the Impact of Tariffs
  28. AOC and Ted Cruz Come Around to My Way of Thinking
  29. What is the optimal NGDP growth rate?
  30. Who will the free-marketers befriend?
  31. Hummel on Understanding Monetary Policy
  32. Should the government step in?
  33. Henderson’s Case Against a Universal Basic Income
  34. Classical Liberal > Libertarian?
  35. 7 Worst 21st Century Regulations
  36. Health care prices and quantities
  37. My Economics of Golf Ball
  38. Martin Feldstein RIP
  39. Why the Prices Are So Damn High: Reply to Alex
  40. In Sync: How Business Responds to Gratis Government
  41. Thoughts on Tank Man
  42. Annette Vissing-Jorgensen on Fed policy and interest rates
  43. Henderson on Tom Woods Podcast
  44. Freeing Trade in Africa
  45. Why the Prices Are So Damn High: A Deeper Look
  46. Tiananmen Square, June 5, 1989
  47. A Conservative Irony
  48. John Cochrane on currency manipulation in Germany and Italy
  49. AER’s Efficiency Problem
  50. Is the Fed inflating asset prices?
  51. The Backwards Induction of Aging
  52. Advice to libertarians and progressives
  53. Electricity from Large Dams Does NOT Count as Renewable Energy
  54. New Sanctions Against Americans
  55. Socialism vs. Capitalism: My Debate with John Marsh
  56. Boudreaux’s Export Error
  57. #EconlibReads: Russ Roberts’s The Choice
  58. The Universal Basic Income: Newly Contentious
  59. Five monetary policies
  60. Craig Richardson on the Cuban Tragedy
  61. Why is Immigration a “Contentious Issue in Classical Liberalism”?
  62. Lessons of 2008
  63. Navarro’s “Fair, Reciprocal, and Balanced Trade”
  64. E-Verify’s Perverse Effects
  65. Rare Earths: Make Trade, Not War

May 2019

  1. Bio of William Nordhaus Is On Line
  2. The Fed’s too slow
  3. Joe Newhouse’s Failure of Omission
  4. Crowdsourcing: Help Me Fine-Tune My “Perfect Trade Surplus” Offer
  5. Bio of Paul Romer is Online
  6. The China shock ended long ago
  7. Henderson on U.S. Intervention Abroad
  8. My Ah Hah Moment About Academia
  9. War for Poverty
  10. Gross Domestic Error in The Economist
  11. More double standards
  12. Labor Income For Top 1% Exceeds Income from Capital
  13. Eric Voegelin: Economics with a Moral Grounding
  14. Caricature vs. Clarence Darrow
  15. McArdle’s Confusion About Costs of Inputs
  16. Fiscal austerity in Japan
  17. Socialist Fantasies
  18. The confusing terminology of monetary policy
  19. “Socialism”: The Provocative Equivocation
  20. “Things have changed”
  21. George Warren, market monetarist
  22. An Alternative Perspective on Anglo-American Economic Liberties
  23. GOT’s final season may have been disappointing, but not on politics
  24. Letter from an “Anti-School Teacher”
  25. Virtue and vice signalling
  26. Alice Rivlin Reminiscences
  27. Alice Rivlin Continued
  28. Recognizing a Tyrant or Tyrant-To-Be
  29. Alice Rivlin RIP
  30. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing
  31. My Classes in Madrid
  32. Coming Airline Competition
  33. Rejoinder to Moller on Immigration
  34. Trusting the State: the Stock Market Case
  35. Sanders and AOC’s Elitist Credit Card Caps
  36. The real wage myth
  37. Rejoinder to Moller on Political Correctness
  38. Who is most vulnerable in a trade war?
  39. SEC Privilege
  40. Moller Responds on Immigration
  41. On Emily Oster on EconTalk
  42. Helicopters Over Manhattan
  43. Inflation is about monetary policy
  44. Moller Responds on Political Correctness
  45. Walmart Bullied by Government, or Was It?
  46. Regulatory Reset In Idaho
  47. Baseball Great Albert Pujols Defends Property Rights
  48. Save us from the (economic) puritans
  49. 75 Minutes with Jordan Peterson
  50. Theatre of the Absurd: Godot, Trump, and Xi
  51. Armen Alchian’s Economic Forces at Work
  52. “Politics Awaits”
  53. How not to save for college
  54. Robert Pear RIP
  55. Backlash Immortal
  56. The Power of Bastiat’s Unseen
  57. The Rise of Consumption Equality
  58. Big Business Round-up
  59. Alan Reynolds Catches Shoddy Reporting About Federal Reserve Survey
  60. Trillion $ Trump Tweets
  61. Have Coase – Will Travel
  62. Triple Standards: The Dollar, the Throne, and the Altar
  63. Symmetric Non-Discrimination
  64. The Trump Economic Boom
  65. Pushing Down Interest Rates in a Boom
  66. Thatcherism at 40
  67. Sebastian Edwards on MMT and Latin American populism
  68. The Noble Crony: Big Business on the Politics of Business
  69. Henderson on Furman and Summers
  70. A Question on Victims of Communism Day 2019
  71. Individual truths, democratic truths, expert truths and market truths
  72. Could Such a Man Care?
  73. Live and Let Live

April 2019

  1. Elections 101: South Africa
  2. Update of Carl Menger Bio
  3. Backlash against whom?
  4. Rollback: What’s Missing from Big Business
  5. To Clap or Not to Clap?
  6. Big Business : Recasting the Anti-Hero
  7. Is Liberal Civilization a ‘Somewhere’?
  8. The Art of Moral Self-Defense
  9. Gérard Araud on the decline of neoliberalism
  10. Senator Elizabeth Warren: Help the Relatively Rich by Taxing Everyone
  11. Brexit: What’s Next?
  12. Changing places with Europe
  13. Cowen on business and imperfections
  14. Governing Least Round-up
  15. Some thoughts on the Spanish elections
  16. Does the Fed treat 2% inflation as a ceiling?
  17. Governing Least : Incorrectness on Political Correctness
  18. Markets In Everything, San Francisco Toilet Edition
  19. Dalmia’s Almost Great Idea on Sanctuary Cities
  20. No, Krueger Didn’t ‘Prov[e] that Raising the Minimum Wage Doesn’t Increase Unemployment’
  21. You Have No Right to Your Culture
  22. Effects of the 2018 Tariffs on Washing Machines
  23. “The” output gap doesn’t exist
  24. Ontario’s Progress on Liquor Laws
  25. Governing Least ‘s Immigration Oversight
  26. Faded Memories of the Communist Disasters
  27. Government Expenditures in GDP
  28. Francis Hutcheson Speaks to Veganism
  29. Don’t use a snow shovel to sip a cup of soup
  30. Hazlett on Facebook and Privacy
  31. Ninotchka
  32. Governing Least : A Litany of Insight
  33. Rate My Professor as Evidence for Education Signaling
  34. Shoot to kill: Power, precision, sufficiency and the appropriate target
  35. The sad decline of American democracy
  36. Stephen Moore for the Fed?
  37. Governing Least : What’s Really Wrong with Utilitarianism
  38. China’s growth—what do we actually know?
  39. Dan Moller’s Governing Least
  40. Cowen on Optimal Marginal Tax Rates on CEOs
  41. As Notre-Dame de Paris Was Burning…
  42. The strange endgame of protectionism
  43. More Bang for Your Buck; or, Better Ways to Buy Your Happiness
  44. Bernie Sanders Discovers Value and Sanctity of Private Property
  45. Governing Ourselves
  46. A Strong Indicator of Economic Well-Being
  47. How much has Brexit uncertainty slowed growth?
  48. Tesla’s Troubles
  49. WaPo Embraces its Inner Malthus
  50. The real MMT
  51. Kling on markets and imperfections
  52. Condorcet’s Brexit
  53. The Minimum Wage as a Perpetual Motion Machine
  54. Happiness pessimist, economic agnostic
  55. Open Borders : Thanks for Your Support
  56. Reforming labor markets
  57. Open Borders Launch Fun
  58. Henderson on Bob Zadek Show
  59. Pre-Order Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
  60. Why Kidney Sales Should be Allowed
  61. Lucky to stabilize NGDP, not inflation
  62. Hidden Costs of the Minimum Wage
  63. Amazing Progress on Unemployment Claims
  64. Boudreaux on Mandatory Paid Parental Leave
  65. Does MMT need a mathematical model? Or greater self-awareness?
  66. Why I’m an Economic Optimist but Happiness Pessimist
  67. A Powerful Argument from Don Boudreaux
  68. My Short Case Against Occupational Licensing
  69. The Life and Life and Life of the NATO Bureaucracy
  70. Fine on Sturgeon
  71. Market mimicking monetary policy
  72. Bannon in/on Italy
  73. Reflections on The Sopranos
  74. Hummel on Modern Monetary Theory

March 2019

  1. The Public Good of Protection from Asteroids
  2. The NGDP targeting boom
  3. Me on Bob Zadek Show This Morning
  4. Well Maybe Not Anything That’s Peaceful
  5. Do “We” Want to Rule Over Others?
  6. The Federal Minimum Wage Increase Hurt Many Low-Skilled Workers
  7. Paasche Says Progress
  8. Spending must be paid for—but when?
  9. The $60K Rafting Guide
  10. Urban Agriculture or Urban Legend?
  11. Letter from a Teachers’ Teacher
  12. Inspector Clouseau is looking for clues
  13. Stephen Moore’s Deficient History of Federal Reserve Policy
  14. The Depression Preference
  15. Richard Posner is Wrong on Billy Budd
  16. Reviewing Paranoia
  17. What future for French “capitalism?”
  18. Good news on trade
  19. The Chemistry of Ethanol
  20. Dinesh D’Souza and Critical Students Have Civilized Dialogue
  21. Change the culture
  22. Nearly Two decades After 9/11
  23. Cutting rates would not be reversing course
  24. Oregon Government Rips Off Workers
  25. Steve Moore for the Fed?
  26. Venezuela Is Real Socialism or Real Fascism
  27. Why is the public debt situation in Italy worse than in Japan?
  28. The Dissident Ambassador
  29. Guerrilla Education at Princeton: Letter from a Dad
  30. Henderson on Unintended Consequences of Grounding the Boeing 737 Max
  31. Henderson on Lars Larson
  32. How to sell a new idea in macroeconomics
  33. The Missing Planks
  34. Who’s afraid of taxing the rich?
  35. Judging Poverty
  36. Alan Krueger RIP
  37. Peter Berger’s Historical Perspective
  38. Why does the Fed oppose narrow banking?
  39. Chicago’s Lesser-Known Free Marketeer
  40. Another War on Drugs and Deplorables?
  41. Are economics textbooks too expensive?
  42. A Signal of Corruption
  43. Chinese authoritarianism and Western transparency
  44. Shark Tank Take Two- Pop Culture Myths that Need Undoing
  45. David Frum Accidentally Makes the Case for More Immigration
  46. Mankiw on teaching economics
  47. Some Men Just Want to Watch Mexico Burn
  48. Mankiw on Publishing Textbooks
  49. Hypocrisy and Hyperbole
  50. Excessive debt doesn’t cause inflation
  51. In search of monetary equilibrium
  52. Jacob Vigdor on Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage
  53. Gail Heriot
  54. The Law of Demand Strikes Again
  55. A Million-Dollar Education Bet
  56. The Case for More Immigration
  57. Three failures (MMT, statism, Keynesianism) and a (monetarist) success
  58. Henderson versus Kristol on Iraq War in 2002
  59. Klein on Academic Groupthink
  60. Bring Entrepreneurship to the Forefront
  61. The Importation of Prescription Drugs
  62. Rent Control is Worse than Bombing
  63. America’s increasingly incoherent trade policy
  64. Nationalism and Cow Vigilantism
  65. Quiggin on Our European Unemployment Bet
  66. Davis on Saez and Zucman
  67. I Win My European Unemployment Bet
  68. Global factors don’t determine US inflation
  69. Air Force Enlistee Schools Mark Cuban
  70. Dean Baker at Middlebury Institute of International Studies I
  71. More MMT follies (Sympathy for Krugman)
  72. No Canadian Toilet Paper for Americans

February 2019

  1. Reflections on the Balan-Caplan Poverty Debate
  2. A Missed Opportunity for Dianne Feinstein
  3. The wage decoupling mess
  4. The Philosophy of Poverty? : My Opening Statement
  5. Elizabeth Warren Bet Update
  6. Keynesianism, NeoFisherism, and MMT
  7. Green Airbnb
  8. “The Philosophy of Poverty?” A Balan-Caplan Debate
  9. A Brief History of Immigration Restrictions in the USA: Comic Edition
  10. The Trade Balance Chimera in Two Sentences
  11. Alex Tabarrok on the kidney market
  12. Scott Wolla on an Accounting Error about Imports and GDP
  13. About those “traditional models”
  14. A Modest Proposal for Prosecutors Who Lie
  15. It’s blackmail all the way down
  16. Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?
  17. Apology for a Trainwreck
  18. An Argument for a Marriage Tariff
  19. Wilbur Hamilton Ross
  20. Another big success for libertarianism
  21. Technological Unemployment and Work
  22. Van Doren on Payday Loans
  23. Deadlock and Partisan Bitterness
  24. High-powered money (100 years of stability)
  25. Including the Renegade
  26. Fantastic Neoliberal Policies and Where to Find Them
  27. Cowen Interview with Jordan Peterson
  28. Lessons from the Golden State
  29. Wisdom from Tony Lip
  30. McCloskey on Liberalism
  31. Against blackmail
  32. Candyish Government
  33. Should Blackmail be Legal?
  34. When the shoe was on the other foot (A suggestion for Chinese trade negotiators)
  35. The Route that Leads to Tokyo
  36. In Memoriam: Anthony de Jasay
  37. Technological Unemployment: A Self-Test
  38. What’s Historic?
  39. Cowen on the Egalitarianism of the Economics Profession
  40. The European elite is playing a dangerous game
  41. We Wanted Tech
  42. What does it mean to speculate that growth is faster than we think?
  43. Adam Smith’s Beautiful Reductio ad Absurdum
  44. Ernie Fitzgerald RIP
  45. How have US tariffs impacted China?
  46. Cuomo Admits Tax Burden on “the Rich”
  47. Borjas and Me in Minnesota
  48. Immigration and Redistribution: The Research to Trust
  49. Henderson on AOC and Allowing Billionaires
  50. The internal contradictions of liberalism and illiberalism
  51. The Mighty Difference Between Immigration and Trade
  52. Greg Mankiw Responds
  53. The US and China—more alike than you think
  54. Ask What Changed
  55. A One-Page Hop from Bleeding Heart to Mailed Fist
  56. Jake Tapper Doesn’t Understand Freedom
  57. Customs Officer Discovers Effects of International Trade
  58. Protectionism for Dummies
  59. The gig economy, minimum wages, and unemployment
  60. Good News on Employment
  61. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

January 2019

  1. Outfoxed and conned, part 2
  2. Sorry, Innocent Bystanders
  3. If you don’t want people to believe you will do X, then don’t do X
  4. A Short Hop from Bleeding Heart to Mailed Fist
  5. Greg Mankiw Gets It Partly Right
  6. Government Needs No Money to Curtail Pollution
  7. CBO As Agenda Setter on Tax Policy
  8. A brief intellectual biography
  9. The Unearned Compliment of Neoliberalism
  10. Anthony de Jasay, RIP
  11. Pride and Prejudice and Violence
  12. Anthony de Jasay (1925-2019)
  13. MMT is wrong
  14. A Rare Exception
  15. Social Nirvana
  16. Henderson’s Case Against Higher Taxes
  17. Do free markets create urban sprawl?
  18. Why I’m Optimistic About Venezuela
  19. Is “Intentions=Results” a Straw Man?
  20. The Harder Question I Raise for James R. Rogers
  21. Walls around Houses Differ from Walls around Countries
  22. Immigration as a Civil Right
  23. Lincicome on the China shock
  24. The Causes of the Detroit Riot
  25. Victimized By One’s Own Mercedes
  26. Rhetoric’s Place in Economic Debate
  27. 2% inflation changes everything
  28. Find the Contradiction
  29. A Hearty Henderson Salute to John Bogle
  30. Workplace Challenges
  31. Reflections from my Panama Cruise, II
  32. No exit?
  33. Mazzucato Missing on the Margins (Part 2)
  34. Does Losing Less Mean that You Are Winning?
  35. Reflections from my Panama Cruise, I
  36. Second thoughts on lead
  37. The Reformer’s Plight in The Great Idea
  38. Lipow on Stiglitz on Green New Deal
  39. Vignettes on Harold Demsetz
  40. Mazzucato Missing on the Margins (Part 1)
  41. Market Failure Theory as Reproach to Government Practice
  42. Praetorian Guards from Ancient Greece to Palm Beach or the Hamptons
  43. Henderson on Demsetz in Wall Street Journal
  44. What determines manufacturing jobs growth?
  45. Demsetz on Game Theory
  46. A Lesson on End of Life Care for Our Cat Joey
  47. Should governments invest more when rates are low?
  48. What sort of top income tax rate does the public favor?
  49. Rainwater’s Motivated Reasoning
  50. Who Will Pay for the Wall?
  51. There is no such thing as public opinion, example #734
  52. Cowen Defends Existence of World Bank
  53. The Danger of Government-Issued Photo ID
  54. The Biggest Losers?
  55. Please abolish the Fed’s balance sheet
  56. Banfield on the Hyperbole of Urban Bankruptcy
  57. Henderson on Hazlett and the FCC
  58. The future of money
  59. Three Felonies a Day?
  60. It’s getting harder to influence the Fed
  61. Alternative Money University
  62. The Novikov Experiment
  63. South Africa: A New Assault on Economic Liberty

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