Economic Insights
Niskanen on the “Stimulus”
William Niskanen, “Rebates will run up the deficit in a futile attempt at stabilization,” from USA Today.
Capitalism, Free Trade, and Democracy
The quotes in this Washington Post story (“Shanghai’s Middle Class Launches Quiet, Meticulous Revolt“) tell a lot: “They can’t arrest everybody,” said Yao, a 58-year-old protester who asked that his…
Good Thing We Have a Central Bank to Fix Things!
Was the Fed Tricked? It seems that the Fed may have moved into emergency save-the-day mode…..not knowing that the market losses were triggered by a major sell-off by a French…
Steele on Shallowness Masquerading as Economics
A Note on the “Mises” Institute
Boudreaux on Globalization!!! Its Grreeaat!
I just got Don Boudreaux’s book Globalization. It’s a good read and full of evidence and clear-headed analysis.
The Case for Property Rights in Fish
Today’s New York Times: Europe Takes Africaâ??s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow Fencing the Oceans: A Rights-Based Approach to Privatizing Fisheries
No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice
My essay on the “exit closure” and the social contractarian theory of John Rawls just came out in a book edited by Hardy Bouillon and Hartmut Kliemt, Ordered Anarchy: Jasay…
Back to ….. Absurd Commentaries
I just landed a while ago and turned on my Kindle, turned on the wireless access, and read this example of confusion while waiting in the very long line for…
Economic Freedom of the World Report in Chinese
Thanks to the good work of friends in China, the Economic Freedom of the World Report produced by the Fraser Institute (and published in the US by the Cato Institute)…