Subjectivity and Demonstrated Preference: A Possible Paradox
A few years ago, I bought a unique item.
A few years ago, I bought a unique item.
Contrary to anti-freedom myths, "greedy" business owners don't decide what prices will be for goods and services.
Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Bob to analyze Kamala Harris's proposals against price gouging, and how some mainstream economists defend Government price controls.
Bob quotes from David Ricardo to show that the classical economists understood that utility was essential to explaining market value, but then he also explains why the Marginalist Revolution was a scientific advancement.
Prompted by a listener request, Bob gives the standard economic analysis of tariffs and other types of taxes.
What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.
What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich.
Richard Cantillon, whom Austrians consider to be the real father of modern economics, noted that new money creation has uneven effects. Jonathan Newman demonstrates how those effects take place.
Mainstream economists turned climate warriors use cost-of-production methods to determine the “true” social cost of carbon. They appeal to a discredited methodology falsely attributed to medieval Scholastics.
Mainstream economists turned climate warriors use cost-of-production methods to determine the “true” social cost of carbon. They appeal to a discredited methodology falsely attributed to medieval Scholastics.