Category Archive

Alternative Economics (4 entries)

Economics and Autism
What's Wrong with Conventional Economics?
Economics and its Enemies
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Austrian Economics (44 entries)

My Research Program for Ph.D Students
Why I am an Austro-Keynesian
Why I Don't Call Myself a "Moderate Austrian"
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Behavioral Economics and Rationality (290 entries)

Robin Hanson Refutes Happiness Research
Brooks' Hidden Secrets of Happiness
Why People Buy Insurance
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Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings (185 entries)

Our Imperfectly Evolved Brains
Riding Tigers by James Schneider: The Best 21st Century Novel You Haven't Read
Peasants vs. Nomads
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Business Economics (51 entries)

The Virtues of Small Enterprise
Regulatory Re-Org
Hal Varian's Words of Wisdom
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Cost-benefit Analysis (35 entries)

We Have a Winner
Alcohol and Non-Linear Dosage Effects
What Nordhaus Said in 2002
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Cross-country Comparisons (65 entries)

The Best Things European
Cuba and Capitalist Contagion
Look at Cuba
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Econlog Administrative Issues (23 entries)

My Classroom, Con't
Tone of Comments
Masonomics Bloggers
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Economic Education (94 entries)

What I'm Going to Do on My Summer Vacation
Folk Songs
Once Upon a Time
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Economic History (83 entries)

Rat-ta-ta-ta-tat
Roots of West Virginia's Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
What I'm Reading (Slowly)
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Economic Methods (90 entries)

Bet Bleg
Is Ehrlich the Least Hansonian Think Ever?
Do I Step on Libertarian Toes?
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Economic Philosophy (101 entries)

The Under-Principled Life
Tradition of Liberty: Advanced Studies Seminar
The Time Capsule from 1983
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Economics and Culture (123 entries)

Don't Call Me a Philistine
How to Be Mr. Popular When You're Old
Western Culture: Crisis of Confidence?
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Economics of Crime (8 entries)

Why Do Serial Killers Vastly Outnumber Vigilantes?
Crime Fiction versus Crime Fact
Low-Trust Society?
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Economics of Education (163 entries)

Attending College != Graduating College
Overqualified: What's the Deal?
Important Data on Access to College
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Economics of Health Care (341 entries)

I Just Got $100,000 Worth of Consumer Surplus!
Publishing the Unpublishable Paper: Something to Care About
Sherry Glied vs. Jacob Hacker
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Efficient Markets Hypothesis (17 entries)

Stock Indexing Empire Strikes Back
Hamilton on Bernanke on Bubbles
Fama vs. Thaler
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Energy, Environment, Resources (204 entries)

Oil: Where Krugman and I Disagree
Oil, Inventories, and Bubbles
The Cynical Case for the Gas Tax Holiday: From EconLog to the NYT
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Family Economics (2 entries)

Listen to the Children
Correction: Men, Women, Kids, and Happiness
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Finance: stocks, options, etc. (134 entries)

Financial Flows and Regulation
My Model of the Oil Market
Loose Mortgage Credit
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Fiscal Policy (53 entries)

It will be a great day when
"Fiscal Responsibility First"?
Painful Budget Cuts in Maryland
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Game Theory (20 entries)

Nobel Prize in Abstraction
Why GenCon Should Be Tax Deductible
Singularity Watch
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Growth: Causal Factors (148 entries)

Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley
Kuran on Simon: A Fitting Epitaph
International Inequality
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Growth: Consequences (75 entries)

Podcasting is so 2005
The Bad Old Days of 1994
Tyler Cowen's Daily Miracle
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Human Capital: Returns to entrepreneurs, skills, etc. (20 entries)

The New Economics of Marriage
The IQ Revolution?
Average vs. Marginal
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Income Distribution (139 entries)

Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley
Income Distribution Reality
A Basic Economic Lesson
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Information Goods, Intellectual Property (85 entries)

Chris Anderson Podcast on Economics of "Free"
Wilkinson and Shirky
Creating a Life: Why Bad Publicity Wasn't Good Publicity
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Institutional Economics (84 entries)

Political Economy Lessons for the World Bank
The Love of Hierarchies
Taking the Initiative on Health Care
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International Macroeconomics: Exchange Rates, International Debt, etc. (27 entries)

If You'd Listened to Me, You'd Be Happy About the Falling Dollar
Open Economy Macro
Leave a Comment, Larry
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International Trade (85 entries)

Reducing Ignorance, Facilitating Irrationality?
Another Parable
Trade and Hegemony
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IQ in Economics (8 entries)

Personality and Ability
Race and Institutions
Race and IQ Pushback
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Labor Market (102 entries)

Gender in EJW
Best Advice I've Heard in Months
Free Lunch at SXSW?
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Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing (97 entries)

Richard Florida on Location in Silicon Valley
A High-Wage Equilibrium
The Quick Fix: For the Love of God, Give Every Haitian a Green Card
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Macroeconomics (100 entries)

Modern Recessions
I Still Hate Monetary Theory
Why I am an Austro-Keynesian
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Microeconomics (98 entries)

The Gasoline Market
The $.30 Question
The High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation
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Monetary Policy (21 entries)

Monetary Theory and Policy
What the Mainstream Can Learn from Rothbard's Monetary Econ - and What Rothbard Should Have Learned from the Mainstream
Fed Attribution Error
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Optimum Currency Areas (7 entries)

Print More Euros
Euro Bet
Friedman Interview
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Political Economy (152 entries)

The Right to Vote and the Right to Leave
A Basic Divide
I'll Shill for Hillary
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Politics and Economics (147 entries)

Obama thinks we can be perfect (?)
Good Question
Why Hillary's Harmless
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Price Controls (20 entries)

Name Your Price: When Will Gas Price Controls Return?
Tax Cuts Under Price Controls
Order and Disorder
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Productivity, Baumol's cost disease (10 entries)

Megan McArdle on Demographics
Nobel Prize Speculation
Indian Labor Productivity
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Public Choice Theory (43 entries)

Fiscal Desperation in Mass. and Md.
Fun History Fact of the Day
Public Choice Outreach 2007
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Public Goods (16 entries)

Are Externalities an Intellectually Sound Bridge Between Us and Them?
"No Blood for Oil" - or "No Oil for Blood"?
Voting, Vote-Selling, and Externalities
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Regulation and Subsidies (103 entries)

Financial Flows and Regulation
Behavioral Economics Ready for (Sub) Prime Time?
George McGovern, Libertarian
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Revealed Preference (15 entries)

Vermont and Secession
Revealed Preference vs. Happiness
Parents Say the Darndest Things
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Social Security (122 entries)

Fiscal Reality
Two Graphs About Dependency
The Real Dependency Ratio
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Supply-side Economics (25 entries)

Prescott on Tax Cuts
Economic Policy Analysis
Reagan's Economics in Context
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Tax Reform (45 entries)

Biggs on Bracket Creep
Are Natalist Tax Incentives a Free Lunch?
Kotlikoff on the Fair Tax
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Terrorism (1 entries)

Surveillance and Terrorism
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Trade Barriers (10 entries)

Manufacturing Crisis?
Comment of the Week, 2003-06-12
Protesting Globalization
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