The “Mystery” of the Endowment Effect
Mainstream economists are puzzled by the endowment effect, demonstrating the inability of formal economics to explain what drives human action.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Folding of the Ideological Spectrum
Whoever the president, whatever the party in power, Moynihan managed to land on his feet — and on top.
The Competitiveness Distraction
Professional athlete Albert Pujols is undoubtedly a phenomenal mower of lawns. Does this translate into competitiveness in lawn-cutting circles? Nope.
Direct Government Interference with Consumption
Governments, which are eager to keep up the outward appearance of freedom even when curtailing freedom, disguise their direct interference with consumption under the cloak of interference with business.
Lew’s Big Idea
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No, Melissa, There Isn’t a Santa Claus
Political Scientist and MSNBC contributor Mellissa Harris-Perry has called for renewed
The Example of the Strike
The problem of the influence of power on prices as such has hitherto been only scantily treated, and never in a systematic manner, in economic theory.
Life without and with the Institute
Please help us move forward in 2012 to wipe the floor — intellectually speaking! — with the Keynesians, the socialists, the fascists.
How Mises Rebuilt Economics
What is the logical status of the law of marginal utility or of the quantity theory of money? To answer this, Mises had to confront empiricism and historicism.
Free Speech and Occupy Wall Street
A major lesson to be learned from the occupation is that hardly anyone nowadays understands the meaning of freedom of speech.
