If you’re a frequent user of social media platforms you’ve probably noticed something akin to being watched or even monitored. Suddenly, an advertisement appears for a product you might have reviewed on Amazon or eBay. A series of videos appears to the right of your YouTube page relating to something you’ve watched days earlier. Facebook only shows you news feeds for posts you may have interacted with and ignores all of your other friends. The examples go on and on.

In one of her more incoherent columns in 2011, Ann Coulter attacked then-presidential candidate Ron Paul for his laissez-faire position on marriage. Coulter praised government regulations imposed on marriage, stating that Paul’s position is “chicken-s**t” and “[t]here are reasons we have laws governing important institutions, such as marriage.

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017)

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
Joseph E. Stiglitz
W.W. Norton, 2016

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017)

China’s Great Migration by Bradley M. Gardner, Independent Institute, 2017

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017)

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship by Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, and Laura E. Grube, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

When a community is hit by a disaster, how can it recover? What choices of that community enhance (or hamper) revival? These are some of the interesting questions considered about the economics of mega-disaster.

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017)

Public Debt: An Illusion of Democractic Political Economy, by Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner, Edward Elgar, 2017

According to a variety of sources, Alabama’s state legislature may “end marriage licenses“ if a bill now being heard in the legislature goes forward. 

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017)

Abstract: Shawn Ritenour provides a review of my two-volume book Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle in the Winter 2016 issue of this journal. In his review, he provides a number of criticisms of the book and offers some compliments of the book as well. While I appreciate the compliments, most of the criticisms are not valid. In this response, I explain why it is that more money in the economy leads to more profits.