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I wrote an extra Forbes piece last night in response to police brutality at UC-Davis and elsewhere. There’s an irony here: my guess is that a lot of the people Scarcity and self-interest are constraints. Munger on Burke: the thing itself is the

Bryan Caplan and David Henderson have put together a set of very interesting and provocative posts at Econlog that deserve comment. First, Caplan has been reading Ralph Raico’s splendid Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal , which incidentally is the first book I’ve read from cover to cover on my iPad. Second, Henderson points out

The idea that the benefits of economic growth have accrued primarily to the rich is an important part of the conventional wisdom, and it is supported by official income statistics. I would argue that technological change and economic growth over the last several decades (or centuries) has made us more equal, not less. Here are two ways we are more

Glenn Greenwald’s post this morning and some of my reading for a revision of my paper with Chris Coyne on the Memphis Riot of 1866 got me thinking about the importance of a free press and a competitive marketplace for ideas. In my reading I came across the following eloquent quote from the April 1867 issue of The Methodist Quarterly Review , which

Here are some extra sources and readings from my talk: My Forbes.com column “ Compassion Alone is Insufficient: Mind the Gap Between Intentions and Outcomes .” My paper “A Pile of Krusty Burgers Embiggens the Fattest Man: Obesity, Incentives, and Unintended Consequences in ‘King-Size Homer.” An abbreviated version of Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the

I have affiliations with a lot of different organizations that are sometimes at odds with one another: the Mises Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Koch Foundation, the Independent Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, and others. On more than one occasion, I have used money from Koch Foundation grants to buy Mises

I teach a course called “Classical and Marxian Political Economy.” We’re currently reading Adam Smith, and I made a reference to a couple of ideas that would appear later in Marx. I said in class that Marx was clearly a genius, and in reading his work it is clear that you are dealing with an incredible mind that was spectacularly wrong about a

Main Texts: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism , chapters 1-2 Ludwig von Mises, “ Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth “ Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party Class 1: Capitalism, Socialism, and the Mixed Economy Basic: Hoppe, chapters

Assume that you want to help the poor and the oppressed. If you get a job in a “public service” occupation like teaching or the non-profit sector, you will be showered with plaudits

Concering  this item , perhaps Coach Schwartz isn’t familiar with the “Lucas Critique,” in which Robert Lucas demonstrated that government economic models tended to be incorrect because people change their behavior in the face of government policy?  Because Coach Schwartz will change his coaching behavior in response to what his models predict,