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December 2021

  1. Gotcha Questions for Martin Feldstein’s Confirmation Hearing
  2. John Madden on How Competition Among Small Numbers is Still Very Competitive
  3. Exactly who is targeting inflation at 2%?
  4. Radical Libertarian Economics in Search of a Title
  5. The Crucial Distinction Between Choice and Coercion
  6. RICO Illustrates One Way Leviathan Grows
  7. Three kinds of people
  8. I Bonds
  9. Let’s “curb” our enthusiasm for urban planning.
  10. What makes an issue political?
  11. An Insurance Story
  12. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Continued Relevance of Ludwig von Mises
  13. ADA Hurt Disabled Workers
  14. Regenerative Agriculture and the Denial of Comparative Advantage. Recreating Old Problems?
  15. A Christmas Tale: Santa in the New World
  16. Decentralized Tokyo
  17. John Tamny’s Quizzical Statement
  18. Better Late than Never for Eric Topol
  19. The Attack on Walter Block
  20. Response to Scott Sumner on Covid Caution
  21. Does immigration reduce wages?
  22. Italy vs Amazon
  23. American Opinion from a Hayekian Viewpoint
  24. Should You Trust the Local Left?
  25. Wisdom on Cities from Edward Glaeser
  26. The dog that didn’t bark
  27. The Power of the Ten Pillars
  28. Anne Case and Angus Deaton on health care and wage stagnation
  29. Berkeley’s Swartzberg Implicitly Endorses Great Barrington Declaration
  30. Henry Olsen on Isabelle Ayuso
  31. Like Hayek? Check Out These New Books in Austrian Political Economy
  32. Contra Caplan on Covid caution
  33. Lower Concentration for Consumers
  34. Capitalism Breeds Innovation: A Hallmark Christmas Movie Moment
  35. Inflation: What Next?
  36. Measuring Overreaction
  37. Who is hurt most by inflation?
  38. Ideological Turing Test Makes the House of Lords
  39. Is scaring people such a good policy?
  40. Canada’s Decline in Press Freedom, Part 2
  41. Freiman’s Asymmetries
  42. Rule(s) of Law(s): The problem is monopoly, not violence.
  43. Henderson on Inflation on KCBS
  44. Market efficiency in sports
  45. Ancient Wisdom on Climate and Society, Part 2
  46. Privatize Archaeology!
  47. Akyol on Erdoganomics
  48. The National Greatness Fraud
  49. Colorado Governor Says Sensible Things about COVID
  50. The FDA Will Soon Allow Adults to Act as Adults
  51. Oakeshott the Aphorist
  52. Yglesias on monetary policy
  53. Elephant Ear Sandwiches and Amazon
  54. It didn’t begin with Covid
  55. My Oversight on Scott Atlas
  56. Mac Donald on Wikipedia’s Gender Bias
  57. Traffic is Congested? Then Make it More Congested
  58. Yes, monetary policy did cause the Great Depression
  59. Erdogan and Countervailing Institutions
  60. The Default of Fear
  61. Should FIRE Be Pushing for Tenure?
  62. Taking Tegucigalpa seriously
  63. Covid Migration: Why the Asymmetry?
  64. A Memory of Bob Dole
  65. Classical Liberalism Solves the Hobbesian Problem
  66. Does compulsory vaccination work?
  67. More Populist Deregulation
  68. Kowtowing to the CCP
  69. The politics of “right to die”
  70. Are taxes the price we pay for civilization?
  71. Great Moment in Shetland
  72. Ancient Wisdom on Climate Change and Society, Part 1
  73. Public Choice: Improperly Applying Economics to Politics?
  74. The FTC on a Supply-Chain Witch-Hunt
  75. What Are You Afraid Of?
  76. U-Shaped Deterrence
  77. Sokal III: Another Hit at Woke Nonsense?
  78. A boringly conventional contrarian
  79. A Package of Populist Deregulation
  80. Bad and Good Olympic Boycotts

November 2021

  1. Walt Disney and the Chinese State
  2. The Two-Front War on Techtopia
  3. Richard L. Stroup RIP
  4. Nominal GDP >>> Aggregate Demand
  5. The Surprising Hayekian Beauty of Buy Nothing Groups
  6. Politics is Cruelty
  7. Are carbon taxes unpopular?
  8. Was Kyle Rittenhouse Foolish?
  9. The Economist on the growth of government
  10. Japan’s “curious” lack of inflation
  11. Christmas Gifts: Cash Is Not Necessarily Optimal
  12. What’s Wrong With Social Mobility
  13. On Asimov’s Foundation
  14. Economics in One Lesson
  15. What is a “low interest rate policy”?
  16. No Single Incident of Anticompetitive Actions
  17. COVID and the Data of Death
  18. Surviving the Zam Zam
  19. Is the future of conservatism “national”?
  20. 2021 >>>>>>>> 2009
  21. My Upside of Covid
  22. Who Said It?
  23. Railroad Regulation’s Poor Track Record
  24. English Petrol Travails
  25. A Bad Argument for Paid Family Leave
  26. Must These Values Conflict?
  27. Iraqi WMD redux
  28. Why Dr Ehrlich Should Stop Worrying about the Population Bomb and Love Humanity
  29. Who Was Henry Hazlitt?
  30. The Supply-Chain Myth
  31. “I Have Not Assumed Libertarianism”
  32. There is no magic wand
  33. David Rubenstein’s Weak Case for Fearing China
  34. The Toughest Generation?
  35. Climate Shock Bet: Reply to Reeves
  36. What caused the inflation?
  37. Reading Hayek in Graduate School
  38. When it’s time to panic
  39. The Latest James Bond plus Buchanan and Tullock
  40. Is libertarianism fish or fowl?
  41. Students Open to Evidence on Taxes
  42. Freedom and tradition
  43. Law is Hell
  44. Why is inflation bad?
  45. Response to Scott Sumner on the Carbon Tax
  46. Climate Shock Bet: Daniel Reeves Responds
  47. Wagner and Weitzman’s Asymmetric Treatment of Non-Carbon Energies
  48. Infrastructure All the Way Down
  49. I Win My Climate Shock Bet
  50. Hayek on Responsibility for One’s Fate
  51. Democracy and government spending
  52. A Nobel Bet
  53. Money, Wealth, and Whuffie
  54. Victims of Communism Day
  55. There is no “wait and see” for Fed policy
  56. Schools Should Teach Distinctions
  57. Trade Follies
  58. Some Arguments for Insensitive Speech
  59. You Had Two Jobs
  60. Baby knows best
  61. Danish Resistance to Nazi Government
  62. How Thoughtful Torture Beats Plea Bargaining
  63. Enright on Caplan on Immigration, Part Trois
  64. Inflation: Is it supply or demand?
  65. How Democrats Can Save Democracy
  66. Moving Toward Normal
  67. Monetary policy and central planning
  68. Jim Dorn on Mazzucato and Bauer
  69. Is This Error Just Amusing?

October 2021

  1. The Curse of a Government Job
  2. What should have happened in 2008-09
  3. Heather Cox Richardson’s False History
  4. Remembering Luigi Einaudi and the Italian Economic Miracle
  5. Sam Enright Responds
  6. Using the Geneva Conventions
  7. The nominal recovery is now complete
  8. Sowell on Academic Standards
  9. The Goalposts of Consent
  10. A Reminiscence about George Akerlof
  11. Enright on Caplan on Immigration
  12. Fred Foldvary, a Joyous Friend
  13. What kind of immigrants does the GOP want?
  14. Legally Black: Jason Riley on Carter on Affirmative Action
  15. Fred Hiatt’s Soft Pitch
  16. A Hitler Hypothetical
  17. Is Powell Right About Inflation?
  18. Jay Bhattacharya on Uncommon Knowledge
  19. How nationalism blinds us
  20. The Biden Full Court Press Against Economic Freedom
  21. Coyotes in Stanley Park: Part 2
  22. Yes, political polarization has gotten much worse
  23. Chris Jehn on Colin Powell on AVF versus Draft
  24. The Abused Friend of My Enemy Is My Friend
  25. Businesses cooperate, politicians compete
  26. As Bitter As It Is Illuminating
  27. The FDA’s War Against the Truth on Ivermectin
  28. The Card Consensus
  29. The Gender Gap, Paid Leave Programs, and the Soviet Union
  30. Does Lloyd Austin understand the purpose of NATO?
  31. Hungarian Events
  32. The Simplicity of Our System of Government
  33. Angrist’s Critique of Card and Krueger
  34. The Power of Compounding
  35. Will Texas choose to be pro-business or pro-market?
  36. The Pros and Cons of Irish Democracy
  37. Milton Friedman and “Zero Cost” Expanded Government
  38. An unsung success story
  39. Good News on Oil Spills
  40. Give Leviathan an Inch…
  41. CPI Bias vs. the Penn Effect
  42. Highlights from the Nobel Committee Report
  43. Capitalism has a disparate impact
  44. Authoritarian Left, Authoritarian Right
  45. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Round-Up
  46. Outtakes from my Nobel Article
  47. Make Spaceships, Not Slogans
  48. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club: Huemer’s Last Word, Part 2
  49. A Nobel for Natural Experimenters
  50. Why “tax the rich” isn’t working
  51. The Continuum Between Liberalism and Anarchism
  52. Further thoughts on Washington State
  53. New Evidence: The Expanded Child Tax Credit’s Disincentives
  54. A Modest Proposal on Beef
  55. When forecasts don’t pan out
  56. Great Moments in Central Planning
  57. Bad Timing and Budget Gimmicks
  58. LuLaRich Review: All the Right Mottos, All the Wrong Morals
  59. Why weren’t we polarized in the past?
  60. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club: Huemer’s Last Word, Part 1
  61. Fond Memories of Alchian and Tullock
  62. The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin
  63. Social Desirability Bias vs. Punishment
  64. Some thoughts on modernism
  65. Casey Mulligan Reads the Bill
  66. The Madrid Model and the Pandemic
  67. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Rejoinder to Huemer, Part 2
  68. Haitian Assimilation
  69. Saule Omarova and Friedrich Hayek
  70. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Rejoinder to Huemer, Part 1
  71. Where’s the Beef?
  72. Exceptional Washington
  73. A dubious record

September 2021

  1. Eric Posner on Monopsony
  2. Privatize the CBC
  3. Money neutrality, super-neutrality, and non-neutrality
  4. Paul Samyn’s Failure to Distinguish
  5. Teaching Paranoia: An Open Letter to Every University President
  6. Boudreaux on Monopsony
  7. Rational Irrationality in High Places
  8. Endogenous and exogenous steering
  9. Man on a Tightrope
  10. Contra Gensler and the Chinese Mirror
  11. Build, Baby, Build in Nashville
  12. Poverty Isn’t Just About Money: Expanding the Child Tax Credit
  13. The Continua of Excludability and Rivalry
  14. Reply to Bob Murphy’s Query
  15. What does “local control” actually mean?
  16. How to Make Housing More Affordable
  17. Angelo Codevilla RIP
  18. A Lone Voice of Reason at UT
  19. Is California still a trendsetter?
  20. Avoiding Biases: Lessons from Michael Huemer
  21. Breaking News: Unrealized Capital Gains are Not Taxed
  22. Angry Bears
  23. Should Paid Leave Programs be Public or Private?
  24. Introduction to the Czech Edition of Open Borders
  25. Toward a Constitutional Theory of Property Rights
  26. Doug Irwin on the Korean miracle
  27. Woke Is Old
  28. Henderson on UCLA on EconTalk
  29. Thoughts on Canada’s Election
  30. Backdoor to the Ivies
  31. Preach What You Practice
  32. Inflation and relative prices
  33. Signaling: The Play
  34. The Elementary Basics of Inflation
  35. Boudreaux on Government’s Nature
  36. It’s not what you don’t know; it’s what you know that ain’t so
  37. Wagner’s and Weitzman’s Bathtub Analogy
  38. “Just Read the Instructions”
  39. Average is over
  40. My 12th-Grade Odyssey
  41. Why Are There Zero Republican Mega-Cities?
  42. Why It’s OK To Speak Your Mind and Exposure
  43. Myths we teach our children
  44. Elder’s Error?
  45. Climate Shock Bet
  46. The dreary 21st century
  47. Our Homeschooling Odyssey
  48. Rent-Seeking in Slightly Different Words
  49. How One Short Story Changed Someone from Left to Libertarian
  50. Patriotism and nationalism
  51. Dr. Moreno Comes Through
  52. Is market monetarism actually “monetarist”
  53. Climate Change: Compared to What?
  54. Removal of Government Statues
  55. Milton Friedman’s Long-Run Impact
  56. MRI Pricing
  57. If you want liberty, aim for success (and vice versa)
  58. Liberty’s Crisis Crisis
  59. Taxes? What Taxes?
  60. Response from a Pro-Life Utilitarian (Sort of)
  61. The Word “Societal”
  62. Conservatism in the 21st century
  63. CBO Estimates Huge Deadweight Loss from Increased IRS Budget
  64. Do Current Wages Disprove the Econ 101 Case Against Minimum Wage?
  65. David Autor’s Mix of Insight, Error, and Confusion
  66. Sunk Costs and Base Running
  67. Henderson and Hooper on Ivermectin
  68. The American Experiment in Federalist Dictatorship
  69. Well, that didn’t take long!
  70. No World Sugar Shortage Expected
  71. Comparing Housing in California and Indiana
  72. Recounting Friedman on School Choice: Innuendo or History?
  73. It’s never too late
  74. The Friedmans on Equality of Outcome
  75. Beware of conspiracy theories
  76. Social Justice Versus Social Anxiety: An Impossible Dialogue
  77. The State as it Is, Not as it Should Be

August 2021

  1. Two Great Passages from Free to Choose
  2. Misplaced Outrage About the Debt Ceiling
  3. How Urban Would a Free Market Be?
  4. Benjamin Schoefer on the Musical Chairs Model
  5. Kealey and Protectionism: Further Thoughts
  6. Electorate May Want Both Afghan Pullout and Non-Pullout
  7. Jack of All Trades
  8. Against employment targets
  9. The Third Amendment
  10. The Chinese Mirror
  11. The Problem With Nordhaus
  12. Orwell and Ehrenburg on Hope
  13. On Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman v Paul Samuelson
  14. The Truman Fabrication
  15. Mises Contra Kealey
  16. Sensible Medical Pricing? Maybe
  17. Unemployment insurance reduces employment
  18. Infant Industries and the Dubious Benefits of Barriers
  19. Canada’s Decline in Press Freedom
  20. MMT and Japan
  21. The Big Deal About Masks
  22. Voluntary Peaceful Activity is So Often Better than Government
  23. Art Carden’s post-pandemic reading list
  24. We Fought the Afghan War and We Surrendered?
  25. Ryan Avent on policy counterfactuals
  26. Commercial censorship?
  27. Does Studying Economics Make You More Hostile to Immigration?
  28. Why Not Rectify Past Injustices?
  29. The Jews of Baghdad
  30. Employers Need Employees As Much As The Reverse
  31. The New York Times on Rising Wages
  32. Does identity change?
  33. How China Is Grabbing “Our” Electric Market
  34. Whither sovereignty?
  35. NIH Head’s Shocking Innumeracy
  36. Be Diverse, Or Else! Nasdaq and the SEC
  37. Harold Demsetz on Why and When Property Rights Develop
  38. Afghanistan and Incentives
  39. HBO’s Chernobyl
  40. What Does This Employer Discrimination Mean?
  41. Eh, what’s happening?
  42. The Economic and Moral Case Against Eviction Moratoria
  43. Recent Study of Ivermectin Finds No Effect on Covid
  44. Don’t mess with Texans (The Afghanistan war was a smashing success)
  45. Is “Governing” Good for the Governed?
  46. Should the Unvaccinated Be Required to Pay for Hospital Bills?
  47. North Dakota’s Health Care Safety Valve for Manitobans
  48. Climate Agnosticism
  49. Peaceful Easy Feeling After Crossing the Border
  50. The authoritarian nationalist playbook
  51. Falsifiable Follow-up
  52. What emergency?
  53. Andrew Cuomo and Politics Without Romance
  54. Intelligentsia Fetishes
  55. Scott Alexander on the FDA
  56. Aaron Burr’s Explanation of 1830s Political Parties
  57. Huemer’s Two Taxes
  58. Who wants efficient passenger rail?
  59. Travel from Canada to the United States
  60. Presuppostitions
  61. What Is Infrastructure?
  62. Why the Pursuit of Truth Matters
  63. Canada’s Border Policy Doesn’t Scale

July 2021

  1. Void if vague
  2. Pollsters are people too
  3. A (Modest?) Proposal for Earmarking
  4. How Scientific is the FDA?
  5. Covid-19 and the Inefficiency of State Coercion
  6. Should policymakers maximize aggregate utility?
  7. Hanania the Wise
  8. The Long Road Backwards: Prelude to Another Housing Meltdown?
  9. Trust, but verify
  10. Two Weaknesses of Socialism
  11. Yglesias on military spending
  12. Are Non-Compete Clauses Legitimate? Yes.
  13. Essential UCLA School is Now Out
  14. EconVersation with Dan Sutter of Troy University
  15. Techera on Churchill and Nolan
  16. What’s Wrong with Registering Women for the Draft?
  17. Is restaurant productivity booming? (Probably not)
  18. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Replies, Part 5
  19. Market Values ARE Human Values
  20. On Daniel Johnson’s Euroskepticism
  21. Populism Is Ontologically Impossible
  22. Where Behavioral Economics Solves a Problem that Doesn’t Exist
  23. I believe the TRUE science!
  24. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Huemer’s Response, Part 5
  25. Should we rely on the FDA for advice?
  26. When Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates? A Rejoinder to Bryan Caplan
  27. Two concepts of libertarianism – Buchanan v Jasay
  28. Export Protectionism: Back to the Future?
  29. Freedom is Regulation, Florida Edition
  30. Biden’s Executive Order on Competition
  31. Big fruit and low-hanging fruit
  32. The Housing Misery of U.S. Lumber (and Other) Tariffs
  33. The intellectual world we live in
  34. Reminiscences of Thurgood Marshall
  35. Is inflation always a monetary phenomenon?
  36. When It’s Alright to Steal from Bill Gates: A Reply to David
  37. What Is Economic Growth?
  38. Two Facts about Mass Transit and Cars
  39. Elegy for a Friend: In Memory of Steve Horwitz
  40. Two types of debt monetization (and one misconception)
  41. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 5
  42. The New World of Radio
  43. What can we infer from the Swedish Covid policy?
  44. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Huemer’s Response, Part 4
  45. Trillions of Dollars of Retirement Wealth Have Been Mislaid
  46. Thanks to the Oppressed Chinese
  47. Meaning and connotation
  48. Two types of utilitarianism
  49. First-Hand Experience is Less Biased Than News
  50. Larry White on Brainerd on Stablecoins
  51. The Call of the Wild Economist
  52. Is It Alright to Steal from Bill Gates?
  53. Campusland Delivers
  54. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Replies, Part 4
  55. Are Externalities Enough?
  56. Why don’t firms pay more?
  57. Libertarian Social Desirability Bias
  58. Adults These Days
  59. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 4
  60. Congressman Rumsfeld on the Draft
  61. First impressions
  62. There is No Shortage of Labor
  63. Benefits of the American Revolution: An Exploration of Positive Externalities
  64. Two Objections to Free Trade
  65. Mike Gravel on Sunk Costs in War
  66. The stories we tell
  67. The “good old days” that never were
  68. Royal Caribbean’s Response to DeSantis’s Restrictions on Freedom of Association
  69. Security States
  70. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Replies, Part 3

June 2021

  1. The wisdom that never works
  2. The Wall Street Journal’s Defense of Aduhelm Deserves 1.5 Cheers
  3. “Follow the Science” Might Not Mean What You Think It Means
  4. Teaching the Fed as the hero
  5. NPR Panel on Capitalism
  6. Campusland
  7. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Huemer’s Response, Part 3
  8. A Mildly Optimistic Note About America
  9. John Tamny’s Hayekian Take on Covid Policies
  10. Strange moral calculations
  11. Lincicome on Industrial Policy
  12. On the repeal of the Corn Laws
  13. The Case for Boarding Houses
  14. How Government and Politics Work
  15. TV prices and British queens
  16. My Profound Understanding of Human Nature
  17. Making China Great Again
  18. John McAfee and Tax Evasion
  19. You’re Not Advocating Anything Different from what you Previously Advocated
  20. Afterimage: An Impressive Movie
  21. Backlash vs. Resistance: The Case of Wokism
  22. Temporary insanity (learning from mistakes)
  23. Whalen and Henderson on the Assault on Wealth
  24. Self-Help vs. Power-Hunger
  25. Zachary D. Carter’s Hatchet Job on Milton Friedman
  26. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 3
  27. Marginal Costs Should Include All Relevant Margins
  28. Political Harassment From Your Suppliers
  29. Two Hopeful Signs
  30. Inflation is a nominal phenomenon
  31. The Origin of SARS-Cov-2
  32. Defending Populism?
  33. How Dikembe Mutombo’s Career Illustrates the Case for Free Trade
  34. Sunk Cost and Marginal Cost: Our Microwave
  35. Friedman’s smashing success
  36. Open Borders on PBS
  37. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Replies, Part 2
  38. Alien Bet
  39. The Everyday Miracles on the Web
  40. The pointless debate over inflation
  41. The Apologies of Repeal
  42. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Huemer’s Response, Part 2
  43. Individualism and Western Civilization
  44. Avoiding The Next Big One
  45. Notes on Taking Hummel’s Monetary Theory and Policy Course
  46. In praise of “death panels”
  47. Libel Laws Should All be Repealed
  48. The Centrality of Exchange
  49. Is a ban on corporate ransom payments feasible?
  50. When should NGDP be unstable?
  51. Learning Disability Accommodation and Signaling
  52. A Warm Memory about State Farm’s Good Will
  53. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 2
  54. Tax Maximizers: Good Greed and Bad Greed
  55. COVID, and Stimuli, and Keynes, oh my!
  56. Friedman as a critic of Keynesian economics
  57. Strawmen, Steelmen, and Bad Faith
  58. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Replies, Part 1
  59. Lessons from China (and from Hayek)
  60. How Reliable is Government Information?
  61. What’s happening in Peru?
  62. Models versus Data
  63. The labor supply shock
  64. Peterson Interviews Henderson on the Lockdown Loss to Youth
  65. Texas Government Assaults Economic Freedom
  66. Youth Pay a High Price for Covid Protection
  67. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Schedule Update
  68. Knowledge, Reality, and Value : Huemer’s Response, Part 1
  69. Regulation can be painful
  70. The Enemy Below
  71. Economic Justification for Chinese Coercion?
  72. Deregulate Discrimination
  73. How the Profit Motive Makes Discrimination Less than Otherwise
  74. Miguel Perez: A “Bad Student” Makes Good
  75. Tulsa Under an Economics-of-Politics Lens

May 2021

  1. How do deficits matter?
  2. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 1
  3. Francesco Ferrara and the nirvana fallacy
  4. How Many Pinocchios Should Glenn Kessler Get?
  5. A new model of the macroeconomy
  6. Failure to Launch and UBI
  7. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club Starts Monday
  8. Do Labor Unions Really Raise Wages?
  9. The Producer as a Guilty Prostitute
  10. Henderson versus Manning on the $15 Minimum Wage
  11. That 1970s inflation
  12. Bad Religion vs. Labor Econ
  13. Hayek was not a conservative. Here’s why.
  14. Jerry Nadler’s Radical Tax Reform
  15. Did DARPA invent the Internet?
  16. I’m still waiting
  17. Social Desirability Bias in Three Speeches
  18. Elon Musk and the Economics of Resistance
  19. George Blake’s Shocking Absence of Due Diligence
  20. Thinking on the Margin in the NBA
  21. It’s alright, Ma, change your lane
  22. Ask What Changed: An Error in Cowen/Tabarrok Textbook
  23. Inflation: True and False
  24. Rosen versus Henderson on Child Tax Credits
  25. Is digital currency a threat to banking?
  26. The UK’s Office of Free Speech
  27. What is Ontario Trying to Tell Us?
  28. Should Hateful Speech Be Banned?
  29. Crusades and You
  30. Panetta, Quayle, and Clinton
  31. Did a lab leak cause a global pandemic?
  32. Ridicule or Reach Out?
  33. Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club
  34. The Miserable Americans
  35. What about bribery?
  36. Politics Without Romance
  37. Tim Kane’s Immigrant Interview of Henderson
  38. Batchelor Interviews Henderson on Capital Gains Tax Increase
  39. Ransom bleg
  40. Jason Furman on High UI
  41. Ryan Streeter’s Grounds for Optimism
  42. Industrial policy and COVID vaccines
  43. The Right to Private Property Implies A Social Liability, Not a Private Privilege!
  44. The problem with interest rate targeting
  45. Do Profit Maximizers Leave $4,000 on the Table?
  46. No Mystery in the Current Used-Car Market
  47. Anti-Communism and Anti-Racism: A Final Word
  48. Assessing My COVID Expectations
  49. Bob Chitester RIP
  50. A Conversation on Freedom, Populism, and Big Tech
  51. “Externalities”: Handle with Great Care
  52. The real story
  53. Two Questions on Sunkara’s Book
  54. COVID Prevention and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  55. California State Government Will Lose Big from Capital Gains Tax Increase
  56. Epicurious’s Beef with Beef
  57. A crazy idea: Tell the truth
  58. Despite or Because of?
  59. Meanings of Liberty: A Contested Concept
  60. Camping Cohen’s Commitment
  61. Henderson on John Batchelor Show on Family Allowance
  62. The Great Texas Blackout of 2021: Is Planning Necessary?
  63. A Few Huemerian Highlights
  64. Richard Nixon and the Draft
  65. Fiscal policy and interest rates
  66. Anti-Communism and Anti-Racism: A Reply
  67. Cost of Protection for Youth Much Higher than Benefits
  68. Anti-Communism and Anti-Racism Reconsidered
  69. A very important Spanish election
  70. G. A. Cohen’s Bizarre Camping Trip
  71. The Great Texas Blackout of 2021: Classical Liberalism and Electricity
  72. The Fed is not a passive observer
  73. Anti-Communism and Anti-Racism
  74. Saying Just About Anything
  75. Tabula-Rasa Economics in Biden’s Speech to Congress
  76. Economic Lessons from COVID-19

April 2021

  1. Deirdre McCloskey and the Tremendous Power of Talk
  2. Capital gains nonsense, part 2
  3. Double taxation of coconuts
  4. Thoughts on My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right
  5. Lower property values? That’s the point.
  6. Dual Anthems
  7. Incentives Matter in Banking Too
  8. The Chauvin Verdict: A Good Start…Or Not
  9. Boudreaux’s Aged Hypothetical
  10. The Slippery Slope of Anti-Discrimination Laws
  11. An Immigrant’s Story
  12. Capital gains nonsense
  13. The Song of Slack
  14. Mrs. Grundy Against Ryan Anderson’s Book
  15. Shaw on Socialism and Occupational Choice
  16. Child Allowances are a Bad Idea
  17. Zoning, race, and ideology
  18. Self-Interest, Public Good, and the Royal Society of Arts
  19. The Future of Europe and its “Ever Closer” Debt
  20. Age and the Value of Life: A Further Reply
  21. What the wage data is telling us
  22. Does Spending Your Own Money on Yourself Create a Negative Externality?
  23. That Time Was Different?
  24. The Missing Right-Wing Firms: Hanania’s Plausible Resolution
  25. Andy Pasztor on Our Amazing Airplane Safety Record
  26. Teenage employment has bounced back
  27. Walter Oi and Armen Alchian on Value of Life
  28. Goldberg on Expressive Politics
  29. The Resource Cost of a Gold Standard
  30. You get what you pay for
  31. The Problem in Bertrand de Jouvenel
  32. An Ageless Hypothetical: Horpedahl’s Critique
  33. Coyotes in Stanley Park
  34. The summer of 2021
  35. Berlin Rent Control Unconstitutional
  36. What causes recessions?
  37. Pareto and Political Optimism, Before and After Covid19
  38. Canadian versus US Banking
  39. The Romanoffs
  40. Hitler’s Version of MMT
  41. Larry White on the Gold Standard
  42. Covid: The next issue
  43. Admissions versus Asians
  44. Anthony Fauci is Anti-Science
  45. An Ageless Hypothetical
  46. The problem with environmental impact statements
  47. Is there a market for thoughtful conservatism in the US?
  48. Anything is Small…
  49. Both Amazon and Workers Win
  50. Who are the experts?
  51. I LOVE State Farm
  52. Why are economists losing prestige?
  53. Tyler Cowen on the Great Barrington Declaration
  54. A Better Solution: Tax Rocks or Churches
  55. Hayek on High Prices for 10 Seconds of Work
  56. Which ideas are winning?
  57. The Gender Wage Gap: The People vs Congress
  58. What I Did in My 40s
  59. Henderson on Good and Bad Inequality
  60. Build, Baby, Build : Now Under Construction
  61. Mission Economy: The New Book by Mariana Mazzucato
  62. The future belongs to the Squamish
  63. The Nobel Factor
  64. Is There a New Housing Bubble, and What Should Be Done About It?
  65. Immigration and Housing: The Meaning of Hsieh-Moretti
  66. Deadweight Loss Computations
  67. Robert Mundell, RIP
  68. Hsieh-Moretti on Housing Regulation: A Gracious Admission of Error
  69. Should Karl Marx Be Canceled?
  70. The Case Against High Marginal Tax Rates
  71. Ask Me Anything: An Interview with Virginia Postrel
  72. The Bad and Good Vaccine Passports
  73. No, the unemployment rate is not “meaningless”
  74. In Politics, Everyone has to Eat the Olives
  75. Africa Tries Free Trade
  76. Books for the Future
  77. Businesspeople Deserve Every Penny: A Businessman Reacts
  78. Externalities and Our Children

March 2021

  1. How many people should we produce?
  2. Free Markets and Tolerance: Make More Stuff I Don’t Like, Please!
  3. The Great Political Stagnation
  4. Chuck Baird: A Fond Reflection
  5. President Biden’s Pipeline Closure Did NOT Destroy Jobs
  6. Businesspeople Earn Every Penny
  7. Covid Caution and Curry
  8. The cultural impact of rent control
  9. Fear Me Not! I Got My COVID Vaccine.
  10. Privileges and Privacy for the Rulers
  11. Charles Ball’s Humanity
  12. Cancel culture? Internet culture? Human culture?
  13. Whose Body Is It Anyway?
  14. Comparing Apples to Oranges: America versus Europe in the Response to COVID
  15. When to blame?
  16. The Solution to Expensive Housing Is More Housing
  17. Boris Johnson’s two cheers for capitalism
  18. Moral Relativism and Moral Fanaticism
  19. Ludwig von Mises on the “Barbarous Relic”
  20. Brookings’ Cliff Winston on Infrastructure
  21. Public Health Is Not What Many Think It Is
  22. Repealing Political Discrimination
  23. Krugman Illustrates Caplan’s Point
  24. Alain Bertaud and the Future of Cities
  25. On Price Formation Theory
  26. Proactive and reactive COVID policies
  27. A Precommitment
  28. The professor vs. the markets
  29. Housing Deregulation: Reverse Musical Chairs
  30. Individual and Collective Choices in Cars
  31. The Factors in the Drastic Money Supply Drop from 1929 to 1933
  32. Will the Fed follow its rhetoric or its rule?
  33. The Damage Yet to Come from the “Stimulus”
  34. Did Price-Gouging Laws Increase Covid Deaths?
  35. Covid Minimizing on One Variable
  36. Danone and the Future of Shareholder Capitalism
  37. Did people eat two dinners in the 1970s?
  38. How much should we borrow?
  39. Strangely Liberating
  40. SDB and Me: An Autobiographical Exploration
  41. Logical and Praxeological Impossibilities
  42. Should AstraZeneca Vaccine Be Paused?
  43. Internal contradictions in progressivism
  44. I’m Teaching at the 2021 John Locke Summer School
  45. Alice Rivlin on Bracket Creep
  46. An Ordoliberalism Primer on Project Syndicate
  47. Write Your SDB Autobiography
  48. Suggestions for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand?
  49. What Alan Blinder Missed on Inflation
  50. The Pandemic in Europe and America
  51. Who gains under non-price rationing?
  52. Great Cowen Interview of John Cochrane
  53. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Round-Up
  54. My Thoughts on Unions
  55. The old left and cancel culture
  56. The case against COVID lockdowns, well argued.
  57. Wiblin, Probability, and Nuclear War
  58. The Logical Basis is a Difference in Incentives
  59. Why Human Space Exploration Matters
  60. Skipping Steps: A Homeschooling Dialogue
  61. The Dog in the Doctor Seuss Manger
  62. COVID vs. SIVH
  63. Paul Krugman and the Notion of Choice
  64. Why is the UK doing so much better?
  65. An Unnecessary “Stimulus”
  66. Information, behavior, and frictions (short course on economics)
  67. The President and the Good King Dagobert
  68. Can economists be trusted?
  69. Postscript: Orwell for Socialism
  70. Is Amazon a Corporate Mother Teresa?
  71. Keyhole Solutions: The Song
  72. I Hereby Resign as an Expert on Systemic Racism
  73. The COVID confidence man
  74. My Social Media Experiment: A Self-Assessment
  75. Bernie Sanders, Minimum Wage, and Systemic Racism
  76. About those “bond vigilantes”
  77. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club: Final Thoughts

February 2021

  1. PC and PG Matter More than Content at Google
  2. The two China policies
  3. The Invisible Order of the Black Family: Part 2
  4. The Ethical and Economic Case Against Lockdowns
  5. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 6
  6. The Game of Telephone: The Knowledge Problem in Regulation
  7. One hundred years of solitude
  8. Private versus Government
  9. The Mae West of energy sources
  10. Boris Johnson’s reopening plan
  11. Serbians’ Freedom to Choose
  12. L’Etat, c’est Ro
  13. What the Success Sequence Means
  14. Terence Kealey on the British ARPA
  15. The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment
  16. Correlation and causation
  17. What Does the Success Sequence Mean?
  18. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 6
  19. The Mysterious Microchip Shortage
  20. Jeff Hummel on Classical Liberals and Libertarians
  21. The Sunk Cost Lesson Stuck
  22. Dean Baker on wealth
  23. Adam Smith in the Workplace
  24. How the Feds Gave a Competitive Advantage to Conservative Radio
  25. The Opportunity-Killing Minimum Wage
  26. In Praise of CVS
  27. Promise to be irresponsible?
  28. The Invisible Order of the Black Family: Some Observations on Carol Stack’s All Our Kin
  29. From UBI to Anomie
  30. Charley Hooper on Masks
  31. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 5
  32. Great Moment in Public Service Number 12,933
  33. When is fiscal stimulus appropriate?
  34. Baseball, Black History, and Bottom-Up Integration
  35. Bioethics: Tuskegee vs. COVID
  36. Will Joe Biden Be a Dictator?
  37. The Communist Trabant
  38. Amity Shlaes and the Challenges for Free Market Scholars
  39. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 5
  40. Will Walmart Save America?
  41. The Magness Horpedahl Convergence on Masks
  42. The seen and the unseen
  43. Free trade and free labor markets
  44. Hayek, Prices, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show
  45. Lessons on Management and Entrepreneurship from Jeff Bezos
  46. Redford on Qualified Immunity and Moral Hazard
  47. Ezra Klein on California Housing Restrictions
  48. White Guilt and Reparations: A True Story
  49. Hume, hockey sticks, and The Great Forgetting
  50. Collective Guilt for Everyone for Everything
  51. The Magness Horpedahl Convergence on Lockdowns
  52. Vaccine Adventures
  53. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 4
  54. What is Equity?
  55. What is this “monetary policy” that you refer to?
  56. Revolution is the Hell of It: Algerian Edition
  57. The Economics of Violence: A Short Introduction
  58. Mitt Romney’s Expensive and Unfair Child Allowance
  59. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 4
  60. Romney’s child allowance proposal
  61. David Hume on Ancient Revolutions
  62. Caitlin Doughty on Death
  63. Olivier Blanchard on monetary offset
  64. If it ain’t broke . . .
  65. Daniel Layman and the forgotten Lockeans
  66. The Covid election
  67. Cost/Benefit Analysis or Rock, Paper, Scissors
  68. A Burkean Beautiful Bubble
  69. An 18th-Century Revolution, With Current Examples
  70. Margins and the 2020 Presidential Election
  71. Censorship is a two-edged sword
  72. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 3
  73. Robinhood and Redditors: Who’s robbin’ who?
  74. Ronald Coase and Reciprocal Externalities: A Refresher
  75. My new article on MMT
  76. Stakeholder Capitalism and the “Great Reset”
  77. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 3
  78. The Economics of the Hispanic Scholastics

January 2021

  1. Panda: Pandering to the public’s ignorance
  2. Is there politics after polarization?
  3. People Have Purposes; Markets Don’t
  4. The equity and efficiency of SALT cap repeal
  5. Nationalism, prejudice, and FDA regulation
  6. The Big Long
  7. Persecution Bet
  8. Selective outrage
  9. Five Books for Shakespeare Lovers, or Those Who Want to Be: Doorways In
  10. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 2
  11. The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
  12. Markets are good at allocating resources
  13. The Office of Free Speech: A Not-So-Modest Proposal for Academia
  14. Will the Vaccines Mess With Our DNA?
  15. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 2
  16. The Mittens of Mr. Sanders: Economic Lessons
  17. Richard Yetter Chappell on Lessons from the Pandemic
  18. Welfare states and the new (center) left
  19. Appreciating Walter Williams
  20. Interest rates and housing affordability
  21. John Kay on Mariana Mazzucato’s Capitalism
  22. Valerie Ramey Has the Same Quandary I Do
  23. I Win My Trump Bet
  24. Biden’s Endearing but Collectivist Inaugural Speech
  25. Monetary Policy: AIT seems on target
  26. William Allen RIP
  27. Supply and aggregate supply are unrelated concepts
  28. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Commentary, Part 1
  29. Why Is the Vaccine Distribution So Difficult?
  30. A Shocking USPS Admission
  31. Total Government à la Irving Fisher Is Not Ideal
  32. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club, Part 1
  33. Without Government, Who Would Stop Us from Feeding Poor People?
  34. Regulation and Vaccines: It’s much worse than you think
  35. Charles Barkley Articulates the Benefit Principle
  36. The “mad scientist” problem
  37. Golden Parachutes: The Alchian Thesis
  38. Great Moments in California Lockdowns
  39. Convenience vs. Social Desirability Bias
  40. Noubar Afeyan on Academia, Business, Immigration, and the American Dream
  41. “Shakespeare in Love” and the Humanity of Business.
  42. Open Borders and the Environment
  43. China won the trade war
  44. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club Update
  45. Against Apology Perfectionism
  46. Daniel Kaufmann on Swiss monetary policy
  47. Economic Questions About the “Temple of Democracy”
  48. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Book Club
  49. Eric Hoffer on “Property Rights” in Jobs
  50. Joe Stiglitz on Taxing Interest
  51. No “Will of the People” in the Election
  52. Did Trump Foment a Violent Assault?
  53. There’s no one behind the curtain
  54. Sunk Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan
  55. Thoughtful Pieces on the Lessons of COVID-19
  56. Biden approves First Dose First!
  57. The Big Lesson of 2020: Government Failure
  58. Why are stocks up today?
  59. Sorry for Whatever
  60. Criminal Incentives: A Horrible Illustration
  61. Betting vs. the Nuclear Option
  62. Ralph K. Winter Jr. RIP
  63. 890 Thousand Excess Deaths Due to Covid and Lockdowns
  64. There are no non-Bayesians in a COVID foxhole
  65. Gramm’s Post Office Speech: A Critique
  66. COVID’s effects on Europe
  67. Sadie Alexander: The First African-American Economist
  68. KevinDC on Jakarta, Local Knowledge, Rules, and Marines
  69. My Hands Are Clean
  70. U.S. Tariffs Are Not “More Punishing to China”
  71. Newt Gingrich’s Numeracy Problem
  72. The costs of not maximizing aggregate utility
  73. When May We Be Happy?
  74. Auld Lang Syne
  75. Gold hoarding during the Great Depression

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