Mark Thornton discusses his article “How the Drug War Drives Child Migrants to the US Border.”

Audio file, 22 minutes.

John Lott writes in Barron’s that we should be sceptical of the populist economics trend that’s been prevalent in the past few years. Specifically, Lott criticizes Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of Freakonomics, for peddling a kind of “naïve economics” that fascinates readers, but doesn’t hold up to serious scrutiny (rather than “naïve economics,” maybe “economics for the naïve” would be better).

Ronald H. Coase was one of the few very influential economists of the 20th century, and was awarded the “Nobel Prize” in economics in 1991. He was hardly an Austrian economist. On the contrary, he was a self-declared socialist - at least in his youth. But there is reason to believe he was well aware of Austrian theories while an undergraduate student at LSE in the 1930s (which was when he wrote one of his most influential articles, “The Nature of the Firm” published in 1937).

Mises U 2014 begins Monday!

Without mentioning it, Michael Boskin provides supports Robert Higgs’s contention the Regime Uncertainty is a, if not the, major contributing factor to the current stagnating economy.