A Little Good News
“Economics in many lessons: A better brew for Rwanda,” by Karol and Don Boudreaux Zimbabwe notoriously excepted, the trend in much of Africa is positive. They’ve tried virtually everything else…..it’s…
Economic Insights
Ravaging Africa
NGOS IN AFRICA: The new imperialists
Andrew Mwenda on Foreign Aid
The Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda tells it like it is: “Andrew Mwenda: Let’s take a new look at African aid.” I met Andrew in Nairobi earlier this year; he’s a…
A Cool Breath of Reason
Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Enviromentalists’s Guide to Global Warming Bjorn Lomborg has a great essay in today’s Washington Post, “Chill out: Stop fighting over global warming…
Neatly Skewered
The soi disant deep thinker Naomi Klein has her deep thoughts brought up for a little sunlight by Tyler Cowen, “Shock Jock.” (I read her book No Logo years ago….
A Thoughtful Defense of Apple and Freedom of Contract
Thomas Hazlett in FT.com and MSNBC, “How the ‘walled garden’ promotes innovation.” Apple could have offered its device as an “open” platform, but instead chose (as with iTunes, iPods and…
Belarussian Classical Liberal Website
Economy.by* *In Russian and in English.
Siloviki Statism
A very useful introduction to the political economy of the new Siloviki State: “The making of a neo-KGB state.”
Monetary Economics 101
Very Small Change Ok, kids! Write a short essay about this analysis: Last month a new 200,000 Zimbabwe dollar note was launched, in a bid to tackle the country’s inflation,…
Another Package of Insights from Tyler Cowen
I just finished Tyler Cowen’s enlightening new book, Discover Your Inner Economist. It’s a good antidote to the “isn’t economics weirdly counter-intuitive” genre, which, although often fun, doesn’t do as…