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Peace On Earth Is Almost Here, by Bryan Caplan 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The ceaseless ugliness of the news notwithstanding, the Great Pacification continues. Check out Wikipedia's latest map of Ongoing Military Conflicts, circa October 2012. The minor wars are usually d...
Day One, by Bart Wilson 26 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
Today is my first day blogging at EconLog. I would like to thank Amy Willis for the invitation to guest blog for the semester and for her generous introduction last week. I also thank the bloggers of ...
Solow and Samuelson on the Phillips Curve, by David Henderson 26 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
In my critical comment on Robert Solow's slam on Friedman, I pointed out that when I reread Solow's and Samuelson's famous 1960 article on the Phillips Curve as a "menu" for policy makers choosing bet...
The Political Economy of Government-Financed Boondoggles, by Art Carden 26 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame has been closed since November. The article linked here points out that over the course of the museum's existence, the taxpayer subsidy has worked out to about $33 per v...
The Means-Testing Club, by Bryan Caplan 26 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
We advocates of means-testing need a name for our club. Singapore and Tyler Cowen (somewhat surprisingly) could be charter members. Tyler, from Singapore: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Thi...
Good Students Rule, by Bryan Caplan 26 Aug 2013 | 10:07 am
Most professors like good students, but I idolize them. For most professors, good students are a joy in the classroom, but a chore outside of the classroom. For me, good students are a joy through a...
Galbraith Opposes Cronyism, by David Henderson 26 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
In John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, Richard Parker writes: The following year [1951], at the invitation of Puerto Rico's reform-minded governor, Luis Munoz Marin, Galbra...
Kitty Galbraith on Keynes, by David Henderson 25 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Kitty Galbraith makes Hayek's mistake (although check the big caveat below) This is my next installment on Richard Parker's book on John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Fro...
The stupidest letter a US Ambassador ever received, by Alberto Mingardi 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The following letter (kindly translated into English by my colleague David Perazzoni) was sent to the American Ambassador in Rome by seven Italian MPs (Michele Anzaldi, Marina Berlinghieri, Matteo Bif...
Introducing Bart Wilson, by Amy Willis 24 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Please join all of us at EconLog in welcoming Chapman University's Bart Wilson as our newest guest blogger. Wilson brings a keen eye for economic history and human behavior, and we very much look forw...
