I'm only about two thirds done with Piketty - it's been very busy this summer between events, getting the dissertation proposal off ...

I have taken one of the central tenets of Piketty to be that institutions are central to the determination of wealth and income inequality. ...

Don Boudreaux walks through an interesting exercise where the minimum wage leads to switching between two production techniques as a possib...

Is here . Some outtakes: "Peter Boettke’s Living Economics gets off to an inauspicious start. Although the book’s principal plea ...

David Henderson rightly praises a recent post by Paul Krugman on the motivations to go to war, and notes the use of public choice logic in ...

I know this Magness guy is really not worth the time investment, but before I leave this behind I wanted to share this great passage from Sa...

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One thing I hate and tried to teach my students to avoid in the History of Economic Thought class is the tendency to view intellectual histo...

Perhaps the biggest problem with libertarianism (and I'm talking about the more extreme minarchist and anarchist range of the spectrum, ...

- Norm Matloff, a regular voice in the high skill immigration debate (but not an economist) is now blogging . - Think tanks discussed on t...