Economic Insights


Interesting Data

Cost of 1,000 Gallons of Gas as Percent of Per-Capita GDP, 1919-2007

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Zimbabwean Government Helps People Catch Up with Rising Prices Caused by Unethical Business Practices….

Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, said the new notes are for “the convenience of the banking public and corporate sector” in…

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How to Destroy a Country

When you create this and this and get this I saw something similar in Belgrade during the hyper inflation they experienced under Milosevic. Mounds and mounds of soggy paper notes…

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Nominations Still Open for Bastiat Prize

If you know a good journalist….nominate him or her for a 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism! (The nomination form is easy to use.)

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Yeeee haaa!! An Andy Morriss Roundup

Andy Morriss: Scholar, Raconteur, Freedom Fighter I was gathering articles on property rights for a friend in Poland, and among them were several popular pieces by my friend Professor Andrew…

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Property in Africa

I had a really interesting discussion this evening with west African students and young professionals over property rights and African traditions and institutions. I gave a talk at the IMANI/Cato…

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Food Video in Russian

Here is a somewhat different version in English.

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The Economics of Liberty, with Walter Williams

(Note: I have substituted for the non-working link the link above.)

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A crise mundial de alimentos

….in Portuguese….

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