Economic Insights


My Case for Free Trade in Caijing, China’s Leading Magazine of Economic Policy

One of China’s most prestigious and influential magazines, Caijing, today ran my article on free trade: “Weaken Our Trade Barriers: It is not only America’s leaders who are erring, Chinese…

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It’s a Wrap….

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“Energy Independence”….

John Stossel on Energy Independence

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Falling Poverty

“Although world population has increased by about 80% over this time (World Bank 2009), the number of people below the $1 a day poverty line has shrunk by nearly 64%,…

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“This situation bears an eerie resemblance to the employment situation during the Great Depression”….

Robert Higgs in Investor’s Business Daily: “The Disappearing Private-Sector Jobs“

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A Delight to Behold

I have just received the PDF of the Dari (the Persian spoken in Afghanistan) version of the book Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity, by…

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Is the Welfare State Justified?

My old friend Danny Shapiro on Book TV on his very good book of the same name: “Is the Welfare State Justified?” The book is a very serious and —…

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Tea Parties, Moscow-Style

Moscow Tea Parties! – Protesting the Kremlin’s New Trade Law

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Thomas Sowell on “Income Distributions”

From Investor’s Business Daily, “How Data On Income Distribution Are Misunderstood And Misapplied“

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Escaping from the State….and other Literary Excursions

I’ve finished a careful reading of James C. Scott’s really fascinating, deeply insightful (and occasionally oddly not-very-insightful) book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast…

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