Some Rationality Amid the Exuberance over “Live 8”
Institutions, Institutions, Institutions…. Rock Stars and pop fans have rocked to end poverty at the Live 8 concerts. But will rock concerts — even those that generate money and demands…
Economic Insights
The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft
A Great Success? Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP….
The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft
A Great Success? Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP….
The Results of the EU’s Brilliant Campaign Against Microsoft
A Great Success? Thanks to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish consumers will soon be able to buy a less useful version of Windows XP….
An Excellent Polish Tourism Campaign
I’m staying in Poland: Y’all Come on Over After the nasty attacks on the “Polish plumber” by French anti-EU campaigners (the ones who voted against the new constitution for the…
An Excellent Polish Tourism Campaign
I’m staying in Poland: Y’all Come on Over After the nasty attacks on the “Polish plumber” by French anti-EU campaigners (the ones who voted against the new constitution for the…
Horseshoe Crabs, Politics, and Time Horizons
In Better Days…. I’ve always been partial to horseshoe crabs. They’re enormously cool animals. Unfortunately, according to the Washington Post (requires simple registration) they seem to be in danger of…
Healthy Profits to Help Sick People
Do They Need Slogans or Solutions? My friend Deroy Murdock has an especially good column today on what happens when ideological crackpots demonize the pharmaceutical firms that are inventing new…
Monkeynomics
A Marxist Analysis In an article titled “Monkey Business” in the New York Times Magazine, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt describe some interesting experiments with capuchin monkeys and…