2020

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December 2020

1. 31 DecMy Top 12 Blog Posts of 2020
2. 31 DecFree Enterprise: A Daring New Year Wish
3. 30 DecOops: The Problem with the Athey, Kremer, Snyder, and Tabarrok Proposal
4. 30 DecEscaping Paternalism Wins the Szasz Prize!
5. 30 DecLarry White on Bitcoin
6. 29 DecNice vaccine; pity there’s no distribution mechanism
7. 29 DecThe “Democratic Centralism” of COVID
8. 29 DecNew Year Wish: Political Wars of Religion?
9. 28 DecThe Story Was Written Before They Even Contacted You
10. 28 DecSocial Desirability Bias vs. Tourism
11. 28 DecRain, Rain, Go Away. Come Again Another Day?
12. 26 DecJoe Stiglitz Channels Armen Alchian
13. 26 DecPutting Entrepreneurship on the Menu
14. 25 DecConnect the dots
15. 25 DecIt’s Not Just Christmas Today, but EVERYDAY!
16. 24 DecOpen Letter to Voters: Political Sunk Costs
17. 24 DecJoe Stiglitz on Taxes
18. 23 DecThe world is full of inflation
19. 23 DecThe Economic Way of Travel
20. 23 DecClear-Cut Price Discrimination
21. 22 DecHypocrisy Over Lockdowns
22. 22 DecPraise and Blame: Meritocracy and Utilitarianism
23. 22 DecHomeless Camping in Austin: A Modest Proposal
24. 22 DecI, Vaccine: How to Appreciate the Beautifully Simple
25. 21 DecCasey Mulligan on Donald Trump versus Jeb Bush
26. 21 DecMichael Oakeshott: A Hero for Whom?
27. 21 DecReflections on the Yucatan
28. 20 DecMore Charter Schools, Less Teen Suicide
29. 20 DecAdding Demand to Increase Excess Demand
30. 20 DecIt’s not just housing
31. 19 DecUnderstanding MMT
32. 19 DecMy Work Continuage: A Confession
33. 18 DecWhip ambiguity now!
34. 18 DecWho Said It?
35. 18 DecJim Crow: More Racist than the Railroads
36. 17 DecGreat Moments in Central Planning
37. 17 DecThe FDA’s Deadly Caution
38. 17 DecPartisanship and Support for Immigration
39. 16 DecShould John Brennan Be Accountable?
40. 16 DecThe Swiss cost of living is too low
41. 16 DecCall It Sour Grapes
42. 16 DecHappy birthday, LvB!
43. 16 DecGenerally Accepted Rules and the Election
44. 15 DecNo free lunch for government debt
45. 15 DecLockdowns and Political Realignment
46. 15 DecResponse to a Friend about Fear of Death
47. 14 DecOpen Borders : Pegg’s Essay Questions
48. 12 DecDeath panels, euthanasia, and the conservative embrace of herd immunity
49. 12 DecAnswer to a Reader on What We Should Fear
50. 11 DecThat doesn’t mean what you think it means
51. 10 DecSimplifying the teaching of money
52. 10 DecMatt Zwolinski defends Herbert Spencer
53. 10 DecYglesias’s Reasonably Strong Case for Way More Immigration
54. 9 DecDoes Letting People Work Constitute Assault on Workers?
55. 9 DecSpencer and Prejudice
56. 9 DecKrugman on the effect of increased money growth
57. 9 DecSimilarity Between Socialism and Fascism: An Illustration
58. 8 DecWe Could Have Had the Vaccine in Early Spring at the Latest
59. 7 DecWhat Should We Fear Most and What Should We Do About It?
60. 6 DecPope Francis ♥ Mariana Mazzucato
61. 5 DecWhen regulators engage in “white lies”
62. 5 DecA 1972 Memory of Walter Williams
63. 5 DecVaccines’ Last Hurdle: Central Planners
64. 4 DecFreedom, the Harm Principle, and the COVID Vaccine
65. 4 DecGeorge Soros and the Difficulties of Macro-investing
66. 3 DecRelief, not stimulus
67. 3 DecEpistemology, Economics, and Conspiracies
68. 2 DecDoes Oklahoma have America’s most pot-friendly regime?
69. 2 DecThank you, Dr. Williams
70. 2 DecThe Sense in Which I Don’t Trust the Media
71. 2 DecWalter Williams RIP
72. 1 DecAre Higher-Paying Jobs Worse than Lower-Paying Jobs?
73. 1 DecTocqueville’s Hope
74. 1 DecThe Great Reset: Between Conspiracy and Wishful Thinking

November 2020

1. 29 NovThree MMT fallacies
2. 29 NovA Floor, A Hurdle, or Nonsense on Stilts?
3. 28 NovA meta-theory of money/macro
4. 28 NovImplausible Conspiracy and Unfair Election
5. 28 NovTo Fear or Not to Fear: That is the Question
6. 27 NovConfusing claims regarding Mnuchin’s recent Cares Act decision
7. 27 NovCounting the Cost
8. 27 NovThe Pivotal Justice in the Supreme Court Decision?
9. 26 NovCommunities in the pandemic
10. 26 NovJeremy Arkes on COVID Externalities and Governor Newsom
11. 25 NovIs Alex Eaton-Salners Ignorant or a Liar?
12. 25 NovFurther thoughts on MMT and net saving
13. 24 NovTwo Bad Ideas on Student Debt, Part 2
14. 24 NovThe importance of expectations
15. 24 NovLife-Years Lost: The Quantity and The Quality
16. 24 NovIt Pays to be Positive?
17. 23 NovJudith M. Hermis Letter to Governor Newsom
18. 23 NovSullivan and Henderson Talk on School Shutdowns
19. 23 NovThe Anti-Jerk Law
20. 23 NovElections Are Not a Ruler’s Toy Nor a Sacred Panacea
21. 23 NovMMT bleg
22. 22 NovWarren Coats’s Experience with Unions
23. 22 NovThe relationship between identity and politics is complicated
24. 21 NovEnd the School Shutdown
25. 20 NovPostmodernism is not an inherently left wing ideology
26. 20 NovGreat Line from T.S. Eliot
27. 20 NovLife, Liberty, and M*A*S*H: Other Civil Liberties
28. 20 NovTwo Bad Ideas on Student Loans, Part 1
29. 19 NovDonehower on the Net Fiscal Effect of Low-Skilled Immigrants
30. 19 NovThe Populists and Napoléon
31. 18 NovDogs, Mountain Lions, and COVID-19
32. 18 NovCollege grads and highly specialized societies
33. 18 NovRichwine on the Net Fiscal Effect of Low-Skilled Immigrants
34. 18 NovTime, Technology, and Textiles
35. 17 NovConspiracy theories can cost lives
36. 17 NovHenderson WSJ Op/Ed on 2020 Nobel Prize
37. 17 NovYucatan and U Texas
38. 17 NovLife, Liberty, and M*A*S*H: Pro-Market
39. 16 NovJudy Shelton for Fed?
40. 16 NovWretched Refuse? vs. Ominous Speculation
41. 16 NovWhy a Vast Election Fraud Is Highly Implausible
42. 15 NovJean-Baptiste Say and Henry Brougham, M.P. Discover the Laffer Curve
43. 14 NovJean-Baptiste Say on the Millionaire Next Door
44. 14 NovNon-linearities in Covid outcomes
45. 13 NovThe Anti-Capitalist Dilemma
46. 13 NovIs Rand Paul actually wrong?
47. 13 NovMeasurement Costs and Economic Calculation
48. 13 NovIs the Absolute Number of Deaths the Only Thing That Matters?
49. 12 NovThere’s nothing “WEIRD” about conspiracy theories
50. 12 NovMurray Rothbard on Humane Immigration Policy
51. 12 NovNo Son of Mine Will Marry a Consequentialist!
52. 12 Nov188 Years After the Death of Jean-Baptiste Say
53. 11 NovThe difficult politics of Covid
54. 11 NovTobin Taxes and Elasticity
55. 11 Nov“Politically Motivated”
56. 11 NovAre Kids Worth It?
57. 10 NovThe thing party vs. the idea party
58. 10 NovLife, Liberty, and M*A*S*H: Anti-Draft
59. 10 NovBeing Normal
60. 9 NovDid the Libertarian Party Cost Donald Trump the Election?
61. 9 NovAbout those Muslim immigrants to Germany
62. 9 NovImpasse
63. 9 NovWayne Rogers: Much More than M*A*S*H
64. 8 NovThe Simple Wonders of Everyday Capitalist Life
65. 7 NovPritzker’s Proposed Top Marginal Tax Rate was 896,508%
66. 6 NovGreat News on Employment and Unemployment
67. 6 NovThe Liberal Solution
68. 6 NovMorning in America?
69. 6 NovLife, Liberty, and M*A*S*H: Anti-War
70. 6 NovState Income Tax Rates Over Time
71. 5 NovThe pervasive myth of the entrepreneurial state
72. 5 NovZoom and the Society of Meddlers
73. 4 NovSome thoughts on polling
74. 4 NovA good night for libertarians
75. 4 NovMadame de Staël on the Media and Liberty
76. 3 NovLook at the Long Term and Don’t Focus on One Variable
77. 3 NovLife, Liberty, and M*A*SH
78. 3 NovVoting and Margins
79. 2 NovJonathan Rauch Has a GREAT Answer
80. 2 Nov2020 Election Bets
81. 2 NovThe Entrepreneurial State. A conversation with Deirdre McCloskey and Michele Boldrin
82. 2 NovFrom Democracy to Populist Rallies
83. 2 NovHow should we teach monetary policy?
84. 1 NovJ.B. Say on Gains from Exchange

October 2020

1. 31 OctSean Connery RIP
2. 31 OctItaly’s second lockdown
3. 30 OctThe price of medical ethics (and fiscal stimulus)
4. 30 OctThe COVID/Lockdown Recession Is Over
5. 30 OctLaughter, Liberty, and M*A*S*H
6. 29 OctThe Unjoined Debate
7. 29 OctRedeeming Tenure
8. 29 OctArnold Kling on Modigliani-Miller and money
9. 28 OctDo Most Countries Elect Their Government Leader by Majority Rule?
10. 28 OctManitoba COVID-19 Data
11. 28 OctIskander’s Challenge: What Took Hong Kong So Long?
12. 28 OctParties become popular by taking unpopular stands
13. 27 OctOne of Tyler Cowen’s Points is Right
14. 27 OctI’m Not “David Henderson”
15. 27 OctCounterfactuals: What If Clinton Had Won in 2016?
16. 27 OctUnschooling + Math
17. 27 Oct(Un)Orthodox economics
18. 26 OctTyler Cowen Doubles Down
19. 26 OctViral Silence
20. 26 OctKrastev on Pandemic and Politics
21. 26 OctIllinois Restaurants Collude to Expand Output
22. 26 OctLook at money!
23. 25 OctCostco Joins the COVID Fight
24. 25 OctRejoinder to Appelbaum on Friedman
25. 24 OctHow Much Should Young People Be Punished?
26. 23 OctTwo important and widely held views have been discredited
27. 23 OctManaging and Mismanaging the Covid Shock
28. 23 OctFive Books for the 2020 Election
29. 22 OctIs progressivism a scam?
30. 22 OctThe Non-Linear Loophole?
31. 21 OctOpen the Schools and the Playgrounds
32. 21 OctReflections on My Illustration Contest
33. 20 OctPrivate Firms Cannot Censor
34. 20 OctIf you are not taxing consumption . . .
35. 20 OctImports as a “Drag on the Economy”
36. 20 OctDon’t Pickpocket Your Students
37. 19 OctAre rational people weird?
38. 19 OctHirshleifer on Regression to Savagery
39. 19 OctThe Wrong Pieces on the Chessboard
40. 18 OctAll ideologies eventually (seem to) fail
41. 17 OctIs Cowen Right about the Great Barrington Declaration? Part 2
42. 17 OctVermont is a safe space
43. 16 OctIs Cowen Right about the Great Barrington Declaration? Part 1
44. 16 OctWhen in doubt, don’t imprison
45. 16 OctIs it OK to Use the R Word?
46. 15 OctReflections on One Billion Americans
47. 15 OctReply to Paul Romer
48. 14 OctHow Does Big Tech Cheat and Steal?
49. 14 OctThe Freedom to Do What Sounds Wrong
50. 13 OctDo politicians listen to economists?
51. 13 OctSir Samuel Brittan RIP
52. 13 OctHenderson on Nobel Winners in Wall Street Journal
53. 13 OctReflections on Texas
54. 13 OctA Straight Line from Friedman to the White House?
55. 13 OctFacebook’s Decision about the Holocaust
56. 11 OctJust how expansionary has the Fed actually been?
57. 11 OctJagdish Bhagwati for Nobel Prize
58. 11 OctGoverning the Prisons
59. 10 OctHow soon we forget
60. 9 OctCasey Mulligan’s Excellent Adventure
61. 9 OctFive Books on the Future of Work
62. 9 OctTrade deficit whack-a-mole
63. 8 OctZico and Ammo under Price Controls
64. 7 OctThree Economists Walk Into a Discussion, Part 2
65. 7 OctTim Duy on fiscal stimulus
66. 6 OctOn the Shortness of Time
67. 6 OctThe FDA’s Differing Approval Standards For Sleeping Pills and Covid Vaccines
68. 6 OctIdentifying monetary shocks
69. 5 OctMore Capital Per Worker Makes Workers More Productive
70. 3 OctSpecial treatment for the powerful?
71. 3 OctNudge: Welfare State Edition
72. 3 OctA Story of Love and Hate
73. 2 OctSomewhat Good News on Unemployment and Employment
74. 2 OctCOVID Reality: From POTUS to NOTUS
75. 2 OctThis isn’t a Keynesian business cycle
76. 2 OctThe Real Cost of Expensive Cancer Drugs
77. 1 OctThe Ugly History of Forced Sterilization
78. 1 OctMy Texas Tour
79. 1 OctCancelling David Hume

September 2020

1. 30 SepThe masquerading problem
2. 30 SepSelf-Help Is Like a Vaccine
3. 29 SepThree Economists Walk Into a Discussion, Part 1
4. 29 SepOrwellian Othering
5. 28 SepStephen Williamson on NGDP level targeting
6. 28 SepBusiness vs. Government: A Few Contrarian Thoughts
7. 28 SepImpoverishing Economic Illiteracy
8. 28 SepMazzucato and “Climate Lockdowns”
9. 27 SepA Key Characteristic of a Banana Republic
10. 27 SepWho Owns Your Genes?
11. 26 SepEnriques on Friedman
12. 25 SepCompetition in Indiana Politics Leads to Reduced Regulation
13. 25 SepCongress >>> economics profession
14. 24 SepA Partial Defense of Milton Friedman’s 1970 NYT Essay
15. 24 SepTaiwan’s surprising boom
16. 24 SepWhen Was This Written?
17. 24 SepEvidence that We’re Better Off Than in the 1960s, #2976
18. 23 SepThe Failures of the CDC and its Political Bosses
19. 23 SepThe Illogic of Collective Guilt
20. 22 SepA Hole in the Market
21. 22 SepThe problem with court packing
22. 22 SepThe Missing Right-Wing Firms: A Beckerian Puzzle
23. 22 SepRBG and the “Waypavers”
24. 21 SepThe lessons of Abenomics
25. 21 SepDrissel on the Normative Core
26. 21 SepDo Externalities Matter for Economic Analysis?
27. 21 SepState Government Stymies Bars’ Attempts to Satisfy Customers #37614
28. 19 SepFollow the SOCIAL Science, too.
29. 18 SepWhat do models tell us?
30. 18 SepIs Modern Democracy So Modern and How?
31. 18 SepRaghuran Rajan’s The Third Pillar
32. 17 SepNASA Is Paying for Moon Rocks
33. 17 SepIt’s Complicated: Grasping the Syllogism
34. 16 SepCase and Deaton on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
35. 16 SepThe Fed can create money
36. 16 SepHello Mind, Nice to Meet Ya
37. 16 SepThe Great Reconciliation?
38. 16 SepThe Logic of Protectionist Nationalists
39. 15 SepFriends in high places
40. 15 SepBranko Milanovic on Holiday Inn
41. 15 SepOur Great Purpose
42. 15 SepPublic Choice: The Normative Core
43. 14 SepEconTalk with Bob Chitester
44. 14 SepLoyalty Oaths Compared: An Orwellian Exercise
45. 14 SepThe chair and its enemies
46. 14 SepOne Thing Rationally Ignorant Voters Don’t Know
47. 13 SepThe headline should match the article
48. 13 SepO’Rourke on the Millennials and Socialism
49. 12 SepBeware the Duck!
50. 11 SepMisinformation and foreign policy
51. 11 SepIntro to My September 12, 2011 Speech at Western Kentucky University
52. 11 SepBrexiters FOR State Aid?
53. 11 SepWhat Is Populism? The People V. the People
54. 10 SepIvor Cummins on the Coronavirus
55. 10 SepEscaping Paternalism Book Club Round-up
56. 10 SepTwo Cheers for Small Business
57. 9 SepImplicit and Structural Witchery
58. 9 SepAll Hail Lars Christensen!
59. 9 SepWhat it Means: A Review of Having and Being Had , by Eula Biss
60. 8 SepHenderson and Horton on Whether China is an Economic Threat
61. 8 SepSkidelsky on Economics
62. 8 SepThe Risks of Friendship: A Socratic Dialogue
63. 7 SepThe Right to Labor
64. 7 SepFiscal stimulus also boosts inflation
65. 7 SepThe Failure of Government Command-and-Control
66. 7 SepPost-Pandemic Optimism from Joel Mokyr
67. 6 SepNinos Malek on the Ins and Outs of Free Speech
68. 6 SepThe Sanford Pastor and Individual Liberty
69. 5 SepJapan’s new leader
70. 5 SepThe Future of Space is (or Should Be) Private
71. 5 SepCould the CDC’s order harm renters, too?
72. 4 SepUnemployment Rate Drops to Well Under 10 Percent
73. 4 SepSomething there is that doesn’t love a wall
74. 4 SepThe Future of Travel
75. 3 SepArmen Alchian and Bill Meckling on Goals and Incentives
76. 3 SepEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman’s Final Response
77. 2 SepWill Property Rights be Permanently Diminished?
78. 2 SepSweden and Taiwan revisited
79. 2 SepFrom Harrison to Volstead: How Prohibition Laid the Foundation for the War on Drugs
80. 2 SepPersonal Immunity and Herd Immunity
81. 2 SepRepression of Economic Freedom: The Case of Eggs
82. 1 SepMore men on the moon?
83. 1 SepA Portrait of My School
84. 1 SepStay Out of Holly Golightly’s Way

August 2020

1. 31 AugBrains and Bias, continued.
2. 31 AugShould I Start a School?
3. 31 AugThe Virus May Strike Teachers Unions
4. 30 AugWisconsin Vandals and U.S. Bombers
5. 30 AugCOVID-19 in the Western Hemisphere
6. 30 AugThe Role of Sympathy in Policy
7. 29 AugThe Decriminalization of Polygamy
8. 29 AugNoblesse Oblige: Thicker than Water
9. 28 AugHow will we know if average inflation targeting is working?
10. 28 AugBrains and Bias: A Review of Science Fictions
11. 27 AugIs China an Economic Threat?
12. 27 AugHow Transaction Costs Change the Analysis
13. 27 AugA win for monetarism?
14. 27 AugTwo Cato Book Forums
15. 26 AugGood News from Georgia
16. 26 AugA Brief Look at Why Prohibition Laws Don’t Work
17. 26 AugIt’s Complicated: A Syllogism
18. 25 AugGreg Ip Should Read the Wall Street Journal
19. 25 AugPhilippe Lemoine on Covid-19 conspiracy theories
20. 25 AugFive Books on Macroeconomics
21. 25 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: My Final Response to Questions
22. 25 AugThe Bloodbath:The Dropout, Episodes 5 and 6
23. 24 AugConcise Encyclopedia Biography of Kirzner
24. 24 AugEconomics: Prices, Pri-ces, P.R.I.C.E.S.
25. 24 AugOmniscience is Not Enough
26. 24 AugShall We Care About Innovation?
27. 23 AugTeaching Responsibility
28. 23 AugWhat does the UK want from Brexit?
29. 23 AugBannon’s Nationalist Adventure: Natural Justice?
30. 22 AugThe Fascinating Federalism of Capital Gains Taxes
31. 22 AugFive Essential Books on Public Choice
32. 21 AugTyranny Comes Home: Abigail Hall and Chris Coyne
33. 21 AugWho Invented the Computer?
34. 21 AugAre the old opposed to progress?
35. 21 AugPurdue Uses the Spike
36. 21 AugThe Dysfunctional FDA
37. 20 AugWhat’s the Moral Case for Capitalism?
38. 20 AugHerd immunity is not a number (part 2)
39. 20 AugI Win My Warren Bet
40. 20 AugWho Invented the Dog?
41. 19 AugThe Big Store:The Dropout, Episodes 3 and 4
42. 19 AugEnvironment Costs of Reforming Methane Rule are Trivial
43. 19 AugMarginal Revolutionaries: Kirzner and the Modern Austrians
44. 19 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman Response, Part 3
45. 19 AugMencken’s 100-Year-Old Prediction Realized, Twice
46. 18 AugWhat if the economy does not tank in August?
47. 18 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: My Response to Questions
48. 18 AugInnovation Travels
49. 17 AugNo lion tamers at the Fed
50. 17 AugHow Well Does the Becker Discrimination Model Hold Up?
51. 17 AugWhy Shortages Are Not More Widespread
52. 17 AugYou Will Not Stampede Me
53. 17 AugPower, Privilege, and Liberalism
54. 16 AugEconomists at War
55. 16 AugThe new McCarthyism
56. 15 AugFurther thoughts on consumption and GDP
57. 15 AugSounds Suspicious: The Dropout, Episodes 1 and 2
58. 14 AugThe Decline of Competition?
59. 14 AugConsumption is not a part of GDP
60. 14 AugThe Marginal Revolutionaries : Wasserman’s Value Added
61. 14 AugOne of Civilization’s Greatest Accomplishments
62. 13 AugThe wheel of ideology revisited
63. 13 AugKurt Vonnegut and The Idle Rich
64. 13 AugTyler Cowen’s Shocking Post on the Russian Vaccine
65. 13 AugKrugman and Growth Agnosticism
66. 12 AugDo 10 Economists Constitute a Majority?
67. 12 AugGood Government Greed, Bad Economic Freedom!
68. 12 AugThe Marvel of Trains
69. 12 AugMy All-New “Economics of Immigration” Course
70. 12 AugCapitalists of the world unite!
71. 11 AugConservatives and the mythical third way
72. 11 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 5
73. 11 AugBad Blood
74. 10 AugBenito Mussolini and Franklin D. Roosevelt
75. 10 AugSerendipity and Innovation
76. 10 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Jubal Harshaw’s Reaction
77. 10 AugFlaaen et al. on Washing Machine Tariffs in the A.E.R.
78. 10 AugStephen F. Williams RIP
79. 9 AugSweden prediction
80. 9 AugClassical Liberals Shouldn’t be Afraid to Talk About the Common Good
81. 8 AugI’ve changed my mind on the Fed’s mandate
82. 8 AugGeorge Will’s Public Choice Contradiction
83. 7 AugMore Good News on U.S. Employment
84. 7 AugUS Government Punishing Americans Again
85. 6 AugThe emerging war on thrift
86. 6 AugTwo 1930s Political Leaders Agree About Complexity
87. 6 AugCoasian Spike Solution
88. 6 AugSilence is Stupid, Argument is Foolish
89. 6 AugA Sword of Damocles for TikTok?
90. 5 AugRosewater’s River of Wealth
91. 5 AugThe Uniformity and Exclusion Movement
92. 4 AugWhy Matt Ridley Writes on Innovation
93. 4 AugRethinking the Great Recession
94. 4 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 4
95. 3 AugShould Jane Decide Who Gets the Vaccine?
96. 3 AugHow strong is the paternalist argument for drug regulations?
97. 3 AugCities and economies: They’re made of people!
98. 3 AugEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman Response, Part 2
99. 2 AugEconomists Should Not Forget Supply and Demand
100. 2 AugIs utilitarianism WEIRD?
101. 2 AugBill Maher and Jordan B. Peterson on PC and Resilience
102. 1 AugHenderson on the Ingraham Angle

July 2020

1. 31 JulWill Government be Permanently Larger After the Pandemic Ends?
2. 31 JulReflections on Science and Society
3. 30 JulWhy is a Baker Like a Beggar?
4. 30 JulWasted ammunition?
5. 30 JulOf Hydroxychloroquine and Cavorting With Demons
6. 30 JulThe Coming Renaissance in K-12 Education
7. 29 JulShould we root for second best policies?
8. 29 JulComments on Siegel’s Fewer, Richer, Greener
9. 29 JulEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Rizzo and Whitman Response, Part 1
10. 28 JulShould the U.S. Return to the Gold Standard
11. 28 JulTullock’s COVID Spike
12. 28 JulEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 3
13. 27 JulJudy Shelton on the Soviet Economy
14. 27 JulThe business cycle drives investment
15. 27 JulWhen to Defund
16. 27 JulItaly’s Venezuelan Moment
17. 25 Jul#ReadWithMe: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
18. 24 JulHerd Immunity: Saving Lives and Saving the Economy at the Same Time
19. 24 Jul‘Profit’ is a meaningless term
20. 24 JulThe European Union, Italy writ large
21. 23 JulThe 1918 Pandemic and Economic Freedom
22. 23 JulFlintstones Without the Nice Tune
23. 22 JulHummel on Posner and Garrison on Keynes
24. 22 JulIs stimulus costly?
25. 22 JulNot Even Daycare
26. 21 JulHe Didn’t Have To
27. 21 JulEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 2
28. 20 JulFree to build
29. 20 JulThe Threatened Wildcat Strike that Saved My Job
30. 20 JulThe Diversity Lottery: Some Rough Open Borders Arithmetic
31. 19 JulGreat Moments in Ronald Reagan’s Life
32. 19 JulWho Gets In?
33. 18 JulThis is how it’s supposed to work
34. 17 JulWalter Block Defends His Academic Freedom
35. 17 JulEconomic Voices: A Reading List
36. 17 JulBeautiful Economics of Indian Medical Care
37. 16 JulThe Data Are In: It’s Time for Major Reopening
38. 16 JulObservations from Florida
39. 16 JulHerd immunity is not a number (it’s a function)
40. 15 JulBenjamin Boyce Interviews Adrian Lee Oliver
41. 15 JulCoronavirus vs. the Non-Identity Problem
42. 14 JulInteresting Airline Pricing
43. 14 JulWhat we know about COVID-19
44. 14 JulThe Neo-Nazis and the Woke in 97 Words
45. 14 JulEscaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 1
46. 14 JulShould Insider Trading be Legalized?
47. 13 JulKuznicki’s Hats Off to Liberty
48. 13 JulEscaping Paternalism : Book Club Schedule
49. 13 JulYou’re Fired!
50. 12 JulThe Lockdowns Definitely Suppressed Economic Activity
51. 12 JulCould it have been much worse?
52. 11 JulProgressivism goes off the rails
53. 10 JulBob Murphy on How Identity Politics Hurts Everyone
54. 10 JulEscaping Paternalism Book Club Starts Next Week
55. 9 JulThe start of a new month means new articles at Econlib!
56. 8 JulUSMCA Is a Net Move AWAY From Free Trade
57. 8 JulMonetary economics: The three heresies
58. 8 JulWill Italy get the “upside” of COVID?
59. 8 JulKrikorian’s “Category Error”
60. 7 JulI “Win” My Bet
61. 7 JulEven More Valuable than Her Coffee Cake Recipe
62. 7 JulIs Being a Cop So Dangerous?
63. 7 JulEconomic Affairs on COVID19
64. 7 JulSome Reflections on Reparations for Slavery
65. 6 JulThe Mob Lost and the System Won
66. 6 Jul2020 hindsight
67. 6 JulRonald H. Coase: Chicago School or Virginia School Economist?
68. 5 JulHow is the US doing?
69. 5 JulHenderson on Lockdowns and Deficits
70. 5 JulThe Anticapitalist Mentality
71. 4 JulFlesh & Soul, Economics & Liberal Arts
72. 4 JulTwo countries, going in opposite directions
73. 3 JulThe Fantastic Unemployment Numbers!
74. 3 JulThe totalitarian temptation
75. 3 JulHave a Non-Rivalrous and Non-Excludable 4th!
76. 3 JulThe Invention of Government, starring Mariana Mazzucato
77. 2 JulMasks: Dr. Fauci Confirms My Hypothesis
78. 1 JulHappy Birthday, Thomas Sowell
79. 1 JulThe Opportunity Costs of J. Alfred Prufrock
80. 1 JulThe Scientific Look-and-Feel of Public Health
81. 1 JulRothbard’s Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic

June 2020

1. 30 JunReforming unemployment insurance
2. 30 JunCost and the Agony of Choice
3. 30 JunSowell on Writing
4. 29 JunIn an Epidemic, Individuals are not Plants
5. 29 JunLester Grinspoon RIP
6. 28 JunClosing or Reopening the Economy
7. 28 JunOksana Boyko Interviews Henderson on RT
8. 28 JunThe Supreme Court is a follower, not a leader
9. 26 JunHenderson on John Batchelor Radio Show
10. 26 JunThe UK and Covid19
11. 25 JunBest Recent Paragraph on Immigration Hassles
12. 25 JunLiving on a one dimensional planet
13. 24 JunDoes Restricting Immigration Necessarily Reduce Unemployment?
14. 24 JunImmigration vs. Social Desirability Bias
15. 24 JunShooting ourselves in the foot
16. 23 JunA Minimum Wage Puzzle
17. 22 JunHow “socialist” was national socialism?
18. 21 JunThe Twists and Turns of Tobacco Politics
19. 21 JunWinter in Australia
20. 20 JunRestore Laissez-Faire Capitalism
21. 20 JunBostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
22. 19 Jun10 Percent Less Democracy
23. 19 JunAdam Smith: Myths and Realities
24. 19 JunKeep government out of the media
25. 18 JunBlack Livelihoods Matter
26. 18 JunThe “Trump Economy” Before Covid-19
27. 17 JunThe Fed is unlikely to monetize the debt
28. 17 JunHenderson on Laura Ingraham Show
29. 17 JunEscaping Paternalism Book Club
30. 16 JunHenderson on Fox News Channel
31. 16 JunThe Data Are In: It’s Time for Major Reopening
32. 16 JunDiscrimination and State Power
33. 16 JunBOTH Sides Gain From Exchange
34. 15 JunShould we trust elite opinion?
35. 15 JunCooking Official Statistics Is Not Easy, for Now
36. 14 JunAEA Hides Its Racist Past
37. 13 JunBill Whalen and David Henderson Conversation
38. 13 JunStop asking the Fed about inequality (and start asking about inflation)
39. 12 JunFewer laws, less police brutality
40. 12 JunWhy Don’t People Speak Up?
41. 11 JunAEA Admits It Doesn’t Know the Literature
42. 11 JunAfrican-American lives matter
43. 11 JunBloody Tulsa: Politics, History, and the Absurdity of Voter Choice
44. 11 JunHealth Professionals Show What Matters. Hint: It’s Not Health
45. 11 JunKeynes, Friedman and champagne
46. 10 JunFive Books: The Soviet Butcher’s Bill Comes Due
47. 10 JunWill COVID-19 kill Europe’s state aid discipline?
48. 10 Jun10% Less Democracy
49. 9 JunThe Detroit Cops’ Violent Attack on Black Capitalism
50. 9 JunThe American Economy Just Before Covid-19
51. 8 JunThe Bad and the Great News about Unemployment in May
52. 8 JunFontana on Emergency COVID Measures
53. 8 JunNationalism and tech
54. 7 JunRoy A. Childs Jr. on Police and Social Workers
55. 6 JunWhat does it mean to say a debt is “unsustainable”?
56. 5 JunWhy the Drop in Unemployment Did Not Surprise Me
57. 5 JunFive (More) Books: Revisionist Accounts of the Soviet Experience
58. 4 JunLockdowns are partly endogenous
59. 4 JunWhy We Need to Keep Talking About George Floyd
60. 4 JunJust Say No to State & Local Bailouts
61. 4 JunA Humble State with No Motorcade
62. 3 JunTransaction Costs are the Costs of Engaging in Economic Calculation
63. 3 JunFive (More) Books: Economic, Political and Social Ethnography of Soviet Life
64. 2 JunHerd immunity was never a feasible option
65. 2 JunSomething to Learn from the Trump Presidency
66. 2 JunWhat I’m Doing
67. 1 JunA libertarian is a conservative who has been oppressed
68. 1 JunWhat I’m Thinking

May 2020

1. 31 MayJohn Ross on Legal Issues
2. 31 MayHighway 61 revisited
3. 30 MayKudos to the UK
4. 30 MayFive Books on the Soviet Economy
5. 29 MayMilton Friedman on H-1B Visas
6. 29 MayWill we have a depression?
7. 29 MayCOVID19 and Public Housing
8. 28 MayCaplan Nails It on Pay Cuts
9. 28 MayUnderstanding Soviet Socialism: (Twenty) Five Books
10. 28 MayMatt Yglesias on Hong Kong
11. 28 MaySouth Korea and the specter of industrial policy
12. 28 MayToo Terrified to Talk About It
13. 27 MayClassical Liberalism Was Born and Thrived During Pandemics
14. 27 MayLibertarianism, not libertarians
15. 27 MayThe “Missing Element” of Economics Amidst Crisis
16. 27 MayThe Roots of Caution
17. 26 MayHummel on Whether to Expect Higher Inflation
18. 26 MaySocial Anxiety, #MeToo, and Disaster
19. 26 MayTabellini on Alesina
20. 26 MayMajor Advantage of a Limited State
21. 25 MayWhen the personal becomes political
22. 25 MayFDA Shouldn’t Keep Safe Drugs off the Market
23. 25 MayHow Lockdowns Matter
24. 25 MayMariana Mazzucato on Covid-19 and “small” government
25. 24 MayRichard Timberlake on the gold standard
26. 24 MayThe Casualness of Federal Government Spending
27. 23 MayHow should we evaluate policy?
28. 23 MayDick Timberlake RIP
29. 23 MayThe National-Security Fraud
30. 22 MayLockdowns in Europe: The Evidence So Far
31. 22 MayOliver Williamson RIP
32. 21 MayCommissar Komisar
33. 21 MayFace Mask Price Controls in Italy
34. 21 MayMitigation Multiplies
35. 20 MayA liberal world trading system: Who says no?
36. 20 MayMichigan Sheriff Explains Enforcement Discretion and Much More
37. 20 MayWin-Win Denial: The Empirical Psychology
38. 19 MayWhat Motivated Newsom’s Relaxation of Lockdowns?
39. 19 MayWrong headline
40. 19 MayKrikorian’s Craziest Belief
41. 19 MayAuthoritarianism and lockdowns
42. 18 MayLockdowns Are Having Real Effects
43. 18 MayAre Markets Imperfect? Of Course, But That’s The Point!
44. 18 MaySweden’s Keyhole Solution
45. 17 MayZingales on the Rule of Economists
46. 17 MayThe pandemic and UBI
47. 15 MaySweden’s Economy: Predicting is Not Showing
48. 15 MayNegative interest rates and negative IOER
49. 15 MayLimited government optimism?
50. 14 MayThe Importance of Play
51. 14 MayKrikorian-Caplan Debate Results: A Little Analysis
52. 14 MayRumors of War
53. 13 MayIs health care discretionary?
54. 13 MayThe Good that this Crisis has Brought Out in People
55. 13 MayReflections on the Krikorian-Caplan Soho Forum Debate
56. 13 MayMother Nature Isn’t Human Nature: A Wicked Problem
57. 12 MayNo Unicorns in this Zombie Apocalypse
58. 12 MayKrikorian/Caplan Soho Forum Debate
59. 11 May“Our Most Fundamental American Values”
60. 11 MayBiography of Harold Demsetz
61. 11 May“Everyone has their reasons”
62. 11 MayWhat We Would Now Know, If Demagogues Didn’t Rule Every Country on Earth
63. 10 MayPortland Public Schools’ Plan to Beggar Its Neighbors
64. 10 MayBig government is not the solution; it’s the problem
65. 10 MayCollectivist or Confused Clause in the WaPo
66. 9 MayMurphy Interviews Henderson on the Anti-Stimulus Bill
67. 9 MayCovid19 and Project Fear
68. 8 MayEnd the Lockdowns Now
69. 8 MayThe wrong debate
70. 8 MayThere is no magic bullet
71. 8 MaySocial Distancing, Blood, and Hair
72. 8 MayGood Housekeeping: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Vol 3
73. 7 MayBryan Caplan on Homeschooling
74. 7 MayConsumption shocks and debt
75. 7 MayAlex Tabarrok Misstates an Important Issue
76. 7 MayPunishment without Prisons
77. 7 MayThe Other Great Shutdown: Opening Statement for the Krikorian/Caplan Soho Forum Debate
78. 6 MayRemember “Remember the Maine”?
79. 6 MayThe COVID Crisis in Comparison with the Great Depression
80. 6 MayFrustrating Drug Advancement
81. 5 MayAmerica has very high standards
82. 5 MayPandemic/Immigration Debate
83. 5 MayJason Brennan’s Good Work If You Can Keep It
84. 5 MaySaving businesses to tell them where to invest
85. 5 MaySyed Kamall Interviews David Henderson
86. 4 MayGouge Is Good
87. 4 MayThe main (economic) problem is social distancing, not lockdowns
88. 4 MayThe Dangers and Arbitrariness of Antitrust
89. 3 MayOrganizational Charts versus Public Choice
90. 3 MayTrump’s effusive praise of China’s coronavirus response
91. 3 MayGovernment Lockdowns Affect More than the Margin
92. 2 MayThe good, the bad, and the ugly
93. 2 MayMacroeconomics and Getting out of the COVID Crisis
94. 2 MayThe Fatalistic Conceit
95. 1 MayIs Deregulation the Upside to COVID-19?
96. 1 MayOur Judgement is as Good as Gold: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Vol 2
97. 1 MayHenderson on RT Crosstalk
98. 1 MayThe Abominable $1200 Gift: Timeo Danaos…

April 2020

1. 30 AprThe Fed is trying to solve the wrong problem
2. 30 AprCommentary on State Capacity and State Priorities
3. 30 AprLiberation from Lockdown Now
4. 30 AprNew York Times Reporters Don’t Understand Incentives
5. 30 AprItaly moves to “Phase 2”
6. 29 Apr“national security reasons”
7. 29 AprMust We Choose Between the Economy and Health?
8. 29 AprKealey on the South Korean response to Covid19
9. 29 AprState Priorities , Not State “Capacity”
10. 28 AprResults on Henderson/Wolfers Debate on Ending the Lockdowns
11. 28 AprShouldn’t the public decide?
12. 28 AprHenderson Podcast on Ending the Shutdown
13. 28 AprCOVID19 and Rinkonomics
14. 28 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People? Book Club Round-Up
15. 27 AprFurther thoughts on the pandemic
16. 27 AprMy Fear of Inflation Has Subsided
17. 27 AprCOVID, Hayek, and the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
18. 27 AprSo Congested No One Goes There Anymore?
19. 27 AprCovid19 and Leviathan
20. 27 AprOwing the Public Debt to Ourselves
21. 26 AprBest Paragraph of the Day
22. 26 AprThe Anti-Stimulus Bill
23. 24 AprHenderson versus Wolfers on Lockdowns
24. 24 AprIt’s always the neoliberals’ fault.
25. 24 AprWe’re All Very Bad at This: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Vol 1.
26. 23 AprCHOMP Calls Out for Patients
27. 23 AprUpdate on flights from China
28. 23 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People : Supplementary Principles
29. 23 AprThe Financial Times on the internal contradictions of nationalism
30. 23 AprPreliminary Report on Debate with Justin Wolfers
31. 22 AprFrom Telework to Flexible Wages?
32. 22 AprAdam Smith: Myths and Realities
33. 21 AprWhy the travel ban did not work
34. 21 Apr“Unintended Authoritarianism:” A Conversation with Alberto Mingardi
35. 21 AprPoems for Pandemics
36. 21 AprAsk Me Anything About How to Win Friends and Influence People
37. 20 AprReminder of Tomorrow’s Debate
38. 20 AprCentral banks can “magically” prevent disinflation
39. 20 AprMazzucato on the “essential” in the economy
40. 20 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People : Q&A #4
41. 20 AprGrateful to Whom, or What?
42. 19 AprHenderson versus Wolfers on the Shutdown
43. 18 AprCV-19 and MMT Join Forces, Part III–Account for the Unseen and Unintended Costs
44. 17 AprWhen Ignorant Bureaucrats Make Your Decisions for You
45. 17 AprTyphoon
46. 17 AprMarkets, Morality, and Mises
47. 16 AprLove Them Anyway
48. 16 AprDistorted perceptions of risk
49. 16 AprCOVID-19 and MMT Join Forces, Part II—The Seen and the Intentional of MMT
50. 16 AprWho’s Still Getting Sick?
51. 15 AprIs Joy Reid a Libertarian?
52. 15 AprSweden is not the model (Taiwan is)
53. 15 AprFlattening the Curve and Moving the Goalposts
54. 15 AprRealistic Reforming: Micheal Tanner’s Inclusive Economy , Part 2
55. 15 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club, Part 4
56. 14 AprBen Smith is One Gutsy Guy
57. 14 AprThe importance of federalism
58. 14 AprCOVID-19 and MMT Join Forces, Part I—A Crisis of Perception?
59. 14 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People : Q&A #3
60. 14 AprWhitehouse Is Right and Cruz is Wrong
61. 14 AprHodgskin on Econlib
62. 14 AprBlack Markets Raise their Ugly Head
63. 13 AprLiberation Now!
64. 13 AprWhy did the markets miss it?
65. 13 AprInstitutional Injustice: Michael Tanner’s Inclusive Economy
66. 13 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club, Part 3
67. 13 AprToilet Paper: Increasing Marginal Cost
68. 12 AprThe VSL Quandary
69. 12 AprThe Economic Approach to Public Health
70. 12 AprWhat Would Hayek Do? Knowledge and Vaccines
71. 11 AprMy Discovery of the Power of Friendly
72. 10 AprHow do you say “deficits don’t matter” in Italian?
73. 10 AprOil prices: Laissez faire, morbleu!
74. 10 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People : Q&A #2
75. 10 AprPandemics and Liberty
76. 9 AprEconomic Theory and the Real World
77. 9 AprDeath and Red Tape
78. 9 AprNon-profits can be Monopolists, too
79. 9 AprEveryone Belongs to Everyone Else
80. 8 AprThe Stark COVID Contrast Between Government and Free People
81. 8 AprDon’t regulate health and safety
82. 8 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club, Part 2
83. 8 AprFood for thought from Ross Douthat
84. 8 AprWill Invoking the DPA Yield More Ventilators?
85. 7 AprQEII’s Speech
86. 7 Apr“Public Health” Is Not What Most People Think
87. 7 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People : Q&A #1
88. 6 Apr60 Minutes’ Inspiring Show
89. 6 AprThe least bad prediction of our post-coronavirus future
90. 6 AprDefining the “New Normal” after Covid-19 will Require More than Just Scientific Expertise: Part II
91. 6 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club, Part 1
92. 6 AprMultiplier misconceptions
93. 5 AprGreat Moments in Epidemiology
94. 4 AprLibertarianism dodged a bullet
95. 4 AprDefining the “New Normal” after Covid-19 will Require More Just Scientific Expertise: Part 1
96. 3 AprThe Good and Bad of Tucker Carlson
97. 3 AprHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club Commercial
98. 3 AprOur economy will likely reboot too slowly
99. 3 AprSocratic Grilling as a Way to Learn
100. 2 Apr“This isn’t the last such crisis we’ll have”
101. 2 AprTomorrow’s Reported Unemployment Rate for March
102. 2 AprPandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure (cont.)
103. 2 AprTeaching Teaching
104. 1 AprGovernment Regulation of Poorer Entrepreneurs
105. 1 AprPrice Signals, Price Gouging, and Philanthropy
106. 1 AprLeiter-Caplan Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate Video
107. 1 AprThe True CPI Just Jumped
108. 1 AprWhen Free-Market Prices Are Banned

March 2020

1. 31 MarOne Good Thing to Celebrate
2. 31 MarPandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure (continued)
3. 31 MarHubris in the West
4. 31 MarThe Nature of Intervention in the Liberal Order
5. 31 MarIf It’s Wrong to Steal Your Wallet…
6. 30 MarPandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure
7. 30 MarHow to Win Friends and Influence People Book Club
8. 30 MarIf Social Distancing Makes Sense, California’s Statewide Shutdown Doesn’t
9. 29 MarThe world is what it is
10. 28 MarSome misconceptions about wage stickiness
11. 28 MarEllen Degeneres as a Modern Bastiat
12. 27 MarNo Wobbling! An AMA with Steve Horwitz
13. 27 MarCapital Homogeneity in the Time of COVID-19
14. 27 MarToilet Paper Wars; Peace at Last?
15. 26 MarFDA Shouldn’t Keep Safe Drugs off the Market
16. 26 MarA battle fought on a million fronts
17. 26 MarTips for Online Teaching
18. 26 MarOpen Borders : Now Do You See What We’re Missing?
19. 25 MarThe white man’s disease?
20. 25 MarWhy the Stimulus Bill As Written Will Keep Unemployment High
21. 25 MarWhat Scientific Consensus?
22. 25 MarIt’s the Thought that Counts: A Review of Stephen Davies’ The Wealth Explosion , Part Two– The Davies Difference: Elite Buy-in
23. 25 MarHow to Hobble the Economy and How to Revive It
24. 25 MarScott Sumner and Arnold Kling: Macro Responses to COVID19
25. 25 MarCovid19, the right and the left
26. 25 MarWho Are All the People Dying of Flu?
27. 24 MarCost Benefit Analysis of Flattening the Curve
28. 24 MarAirlines frequently go bankrupt
29. 24 MarPandemics and Open Borders
30. 24 MarTeaching Sound Economics in a Crisis of Fallacies: Steve Horwitz AMA
31. 24 MarLet Decadent Airlines Go Bankrupt
32. 23 MarHenderson on Economics and Coronavirus
33. 23 MarEmergency Homeschooling: A How-To Guide
34. 23 MarIt’s the Thought that Counts: A Review of Stephen Davies’ The Wealth Explosion , Part One
35. 23 MarSerendipity: California, the NBA, and the benefits of overreaction
36. 23 MarIs there a better alternative to lockdowns?
37. 22 MarThe fruits of nationalism
38. 22 MarThe Future, as Things Are Going
39. 22 MarThe Economics of House Buying
40. 21 MarHope springs eternal
41. 21 MarWhat’s your libertarianism worth now?
42. 20 MarThere’s a BIG Difference Between US and Italy
43. 20 MarDavid Henderson: Libertarians, Markets, and Pandemics
44. 20 MarThe case for coercion is weaker than it looks
45. 20 MarToilet Paper Wars
46. 20 MarGovernment Failure on a Grand Scale
47. 20 MarTaking Care of Our Bodies
48. 19 MarThe Incredible Amazon Machine
49. 19 MarThe intuition behind the productivity norm
50. 19 MarThe Cause of What I Feel Is What I Do: How I Eliminate Pain
51. 19 MarCovid-19 and Conservative Liberalism
52. 19 MarScott Alexander on Herbert Hoover
53. 18 MarLibertarians, Markets, and Pandemics: David Henderson AMA
54. 18 MarDespite Trump’s Best Efforts?
55. 18 MarFive Books About Plagues and Pandemics and Five Books to Make You Feel Better
56. 18 MarI Fear Stagflation and Price Controls Are Coming
57. 17 MarThe Importance of the Diamond Princess
58. 17 MarThe Unsung Heroism of the Private Sector #1346
59. 17 MarThere’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus
60. 17 MarReady, Set, Go! Five Great First Books on Public Choice
61. 17 MarStudy Guide for The Case Against Education
62. 16 MarThe “d” word
63. 16 MarMy Bet on Covid-19 and Why I Might Lose
64. 16 MarFour Books for Social Distancing
65. 16 MarHanson’s Strategy for Saving Life-Years
66. 16 MarReflections on the Leiter-Caplan Debate
67. 15 MarThe Fed didn’t use even 10% of its “ammunition” today
68. 15 MarDoes anyone actually care about monetary and fiscal “ammunition”?
69. 15 MarOnline Teaching: Thoughts on Creating Video Lectures
70. 15 MarStephen Davies on Optimal Responses to the Coronavirus
71. 15 MarRothwell Si, Piketty No!
72. 14 MarRecommended works on socialism
73. 14 MarLeaders are followers
74. 13 MarCharlie We Never Knew You
75. 13 MarCoronavirus nightmares
76. 13 MarCoronavirus Can-Do
77. 13 MarOn Transitioning to Online Teaching
78. 13 MarFurlough the TSA!
79. 13 MarThe Liberal Peace
80. 13 MarWhy are markets so pessimistic?
81. 12 MarThe Overweight Mystery
82. 12 MarYou Will Never See the World as Before
83. 12 MarEconomics Before Economists: From Adam to Adam Smith
84. 12 MarThe Leiter-Caplan Socialism Debate
85. 12 MarAt Least Two Ongoing Pandemics
86. 11 MarThe answer: One week
87. 11 MarThe entrepreneurial state and Big Pharma
88. 11 MarAre Big Drops in Oil Prices Bad?
89. 11 MarDalrymple on Coronavirus
90. 10 MarDishonesty is a core nationalist value, perhaps the core nationalist value
91. 10 MarLeiter-Caplan Debate
92. 10 MarThe virus of the bureaucratic mind
93. 9 MarOnly the Fed can do major “fiscal policy”
94. 9 MarFood for thought on transparency
95. 9 MarMissed This In High School
96. 8 MarThe Serious Innumeracy of Some Mainstream News Outlets
97. 7 MarOh, so NOW you want our goods
98. 7 MarRationing: Assume Government Is Benevolent
99. 7 MarLorna Collier on the Universal Basic Income
100. 6 MarThe Great Saving Shock of 2020?
101. 6 MarThe Brief Case Against Government Banks
102. 6 MarDon’t Confuse Shortage and Smurfage
103. 5 MarA Missed Opportunity on Reindexing Social Security
104. 5 MarBacklash: The Last Refuge of an Immigration Moderate
105. 4 MarFamous Economist on Immigration as a Way to Reduce Poverty
106. 4 MarState capacity in the US and Singapore
107. 4 MarOpen Borders : Think of the Children
108. 4 MarThe weird global coronavirus data
109. 3 MarWhat Is the Actual Poverty Rate in the United States?
110. 3 MarSocialism: Playing With Fire
111. 3 MarHannah Mather Crocker on Groveling Minds and Women who Shine
112. 3 MarMunger’s Insights on Academic Publishing
113. 2 MarNot all NGDP fluctuations are bad
114. 2 MarDon’t count on the government to protect you
115. 2 MarReflections on Guatemala
116. 2 MarThe Unintended Consequences of Samantha Power

February 2020

1. 28 FebAn All Volunteer Military
2. 28 FebCoronavirus and the free trade narrative
3. 28 FebOverheating forecast bleg
4. 27 FebA First-Rate ERP
5. 27 FebCaplan-Weinersmith Mutual Interview
6. 27 FebThree Cheers for the Coronavirus???
7. 27 FebFiscal stimulus doesn’t require big government or budget deficits
8. 27 FebFriedman, Heller, and the Audience
9. 26 FebSteyn on Our EU Bet
10. 25 FebOpen Borders in the New Yorker
11. 25 FebIs it time for Hannah Mather Crocker?
12. 25 FebIf we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change
13. 24 FebThe Fertility of City-States
14. 24 FebCan monetary policy prevent an epidemic from hurting the economy?
15. 23 FebWar for Oil?
16. 22 FebWill We Run Out of Energy or Other Resources?
17. 22 FebAre the US and the UK political systems converging?
18. 21 FebThe Problem of Aggregating Capital
19. 21 FebOren Cass as a gift to Bernie Sanders
20. 21 FebWinners, Losers, and Interesting Aspects of the Dem Debate
21. 20 FebPaul Romer’s second critique of economics
22. 20 FebNeoliberalism as a term of abuse
23. 19 FebIs the US an outlier on health care spending?
24. 19 FebMoral Approximates
25. 18 FebCass’s Cause
26. 18 FebCurrency Manipulation, Saving Manipulation, and the Current Account Balance
27. 17 FebDid Paul Romer Just Call for a Witch Hunt?
28. 17 FebWe’ve seen this movie before
29. 17 FebTory Industrial Policy?
30. 17 FebArguments for Compulsory Vaccination
31. 15 FebMarkets Against the Mob’s Purpose
32. 14 FebPinch Me
33. 14 FebDon’t anthropomorphize the economy
34. 14 FebPope Francis and the Rich
35. 13 FebMilton Friedman, an ‘Elfin Libertarian’ Giant
36. 12 FebIs Powell relying on help from fiscal policy?
37. 12 FebDo-It-Yourself Liberal Ngrams
38. 12 FebCaplans of the Caribbean
39. 11 FebThe Indian currency experiment
40. 11 FebThe Problem with Phony Rights
41. 10 FebA Nice Immigration Story
42. 10 FebMoney and Virtue in the Ancient World
43. 9 FebConservatives Make SJWs Happy
44. 8 FebRudy Gonzalez, RIP
45. 8 FebBe careful what you ask for
46. 8 FebOnly incompetent central bankers control interest rates
47. 7 FebLars Larson Interviews Henderson on Income Inequality
48. 7 FebOnline Reading Groups
49. 6 FebTales of Socialism
50. 5 FebPredicting Mitt Romney’s Vote on Impeachment
51. 5 FebLabor unions and the Electoral College
52. 5 FebImmigration Lawyer Nathan Brown Interview on Immigration Remittances
53. 5 FebMentoring: The Rationality of Fear
54. 4 FebGeorge Selgin on Geography and the Fed
55. 4 FebTo the Victor Goes the History
56. 3 FebRent Control in Santa Monica
57. 3 FebMarcus Nunes and Ryan Avent were right
58. 3 FebElectricty liberalization in Italy
59. 3 FebMMT Gospel: Is This Time Different?
60. 1 FebWhy Would a Rational Being Say That?

January 2020

1. 31 JanNo libertarian Brexit
2. 30 JanFunny Things About the Epidemic
3. 30 JanThe Fascinating 49ers
4. 30 JanInsider Trading and Nontrading
5. 30 JanAuthoritarian nationalism is bad for your health
6. 29 JanTrying to understand the Huawei threat
7. 29 JanIs Bernie Sanders a Crypto-Communist? A Bayesian Analysis
8. 29 JanWine, Water, and Prices
9. 29 JanHiring a Research Assistant or a Cowboy
10. 29 JanPoliticians in Boarding Houses
11. 28 JanPeople are more consequentialist than they assume
12. 28 JanLooking at the Wrong Books
13. 28 JanThe Truth About Income Inequality
14. 27 JanTrump, Behavioral Economics, and Public Choice
15. 27 JanAirBnB and its stakeholders
16. 26 JanDoubts about education “reform”
17. 25 JanCalling a Tail a Leg
18. 25 JanCapitalism is making the Chinese both better and happier
19. 24 JanWe Can Rebuild That. We Can Make it Better.
20. 24 JanMy Social Media Hiatus
21. 24 JanThe Power of Numeracy
22. 23 JanIf the Only Way You Can Get Your Great Idea Implemented…
23. 23 JanTribute to Anna J. Schwartz
24. 22 JanYes, the system is rigged. But how?
25. 22 JanCarow Hall Reviews Open Borders
26. 22 JanMonnery on Hong Kong and Cuba
27. 22 JanWhich contentious issues are NOT partisan?
28. 21 JanCount Dracula and the Chamber of Wonders
29. 21 JanProfligacy for Austerity?
30. 21 JanA Simple Argument Against Ex-Im
31. 20 JanThe Dream of Open Borders
32. 18 JanIdentity cards also have costs
33. 18 JanLearning English from Cartoons
34. 17 JanRobinson Crusoe: Not Exactly Isolated
35. 17 JanThe Trump Regulatory Record
36. 16 JanWhat Should I Ask Zach Weinersmith? What Should He Ask Me?
37. 16 JanDon’t Be a Modal Weasel
38. 15 JanAh, If H.L. Mencken Were Back!
39. 15 JanNeoFisherism and QE pessimism
40. 15 JanSay “Can’t” With Care
41. 15 JanGratitude, Kindness, Loveliness
42. 14 JanGarett Jones on Open Borders: More Endogenous Than Thou
43. 14 JanZingers from Ronald Coase
44. 13 JanLandsburg’s Book on Milton Friedman
45. 13 JanBlack swans and eels
46. 13 JanAge 21 to Smoke: What Would Tocqueville Say?
47. 13 JanGarett Jones on Open Borders: A Belated Reply
48. 13 JanManufacturing: An Example of Industrial Policy
49. 12 JanSome Recollections about G. Warren Nutter
50. 10 JanLoury and McWhorter on the 1619 Project
51. 10 JanThe Simple Economics of Comparative State Lying
52. 10 JanYou can’t have it both ways
53. 9 JanState Capacity versus Libertarianism
54. 9 JanEconlib Virtual Reading Group: McCloskey’s Why Liberalism Works
55. 9 JanThe Speech of Heroes
56. 8 JanMark Cuban Probably Spouts Nonsense
57. 8 JanWithdrawing Compliance
58. 8 JanRemember the NAIRU
59. 7 JanSecond Richest Man Spouts Nonsense
60. 7 JanThe Simple Economics of Pornography
61. 7 JanPsychiatry and Radical Forgiveness
62. 7 JanMonetary policy: Better to expect too much than too little
63. 6 JanThe Paradox of Liberalism and Monopolies of Coercion: Levin on Himmelfarb
64. 6 JanScott Alexander on Mental Illness: A Belated Reply
65. 6 JanFabio Rojas’s Weak Argument for Subsidizing Illegal Aliens
66. 5 JanDo big cities help economic growth?
67. 4 JanThe United States Killed Soleimani, Right?
68. 3 JanHoliday Reading, One Last Time
69. 2 JanMake Toilets Great Again
70. 2 JanBryan’s 20-20 vision.
71. 2 JanMy Complete Bet Wiki
72. 2 JanMy Top Ten Blog Posts from 2019
73. 1 JanPrice flexibility is stabilizing
74. 1 JanI Win My EU Bet