Common Sense Economics
As I’ve been trying to help Iraqis to explain economics to their compatriots, I’ve had the pleasure of reading through an excellent little work, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should…
Economic Insights
New Source of Insight and Knowledge About Globalization
Free Trade from Pole to Pole (or even from Bulgarian to Bulgarian) My friend Alex Singleton has a new institute up and running in London: the Globalization Institute. It’s well…
Independent Judiciary
Sir Edward Coke, Champion of the English Common Law I’m at the University of North Carolina where I’ll spend the next few days moderating what should be (my moderation notwithstanding)…
Good for Thee and Good for Me
Economist Bryan Caplan (whom I have had the honor of knowing since he was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley) has an elegant refutation of those who argue against immigration on…
Economics for Citizens
Registration is open for the Cato University Spring seminar on Applied Economics: User-Friendly Tools to Understand Politics, Business Enterprise, and Life. The faculty, the schedule, and the registration form are…
Cato University on Economics
Applied Economics: User-Friendly Tools to Understand Politics, Business Enterprise, and Life Cato University, of which I am the director, will have three seminars this year. The first, to be held…
$2.10? What a Cheap Jerk Ted Kennedy Is! Why not $21.00?
It’s Magic! The Senate defeated an attempt to mandate an increase in productivi…er, wages: “I believe that anyone who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year should not…
D’oh! Working Less Doesn’t Create More Wealth
The French are getting….smarter. French MPs have voted to eliminate the mandatory 35-hour per week cap on working hours. It had been heralded when passed as a stroke of genius…
D’oh! Working Less Doesn’t Create More Wealth
The French are getting….smarter. French MPs have voted to eliminate the mandatory 35-hour per week cap on working hours. It had been heralded when passed as a stroke of genius…
D’oh! Working Less Doesn’t Create More Wealth
The French are getting….smarter. French MPs have voted to eliminate the mandatory 35-hour per week cap on working hours. It had been heralded when passed as a stroke of genius…