Jim Cox

Articles

There Have Been 57 Peaceful Secessions Since 1776

11/01/2023 Power & Market Jim Cox

My impression is that most Americans when hearing the term “secession” think of the War Between the States, or as it’s usually referred to, The Civil War, and so conjure up a bloody multiyear event...

The Trickery Behind Keynes’s Flippant Remark about the “Long Run”

10/08/2018 Power & Market Jim Cox

“In the long run we are all dead.” This famous retort of the most influential economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes, was meant as a rebuttal to the views of the classical or free...

Even Cows Understand the Problem with the Commons

09/05/2018 Power & Market Jim Cox

A popular poster depicts four cows standing in the corners of their respective fields at the intersection of two barbed wire fences. Each of the four cows has stretched her neck through the wires to...

Publications

The Concise Guide To Economics

06/15/1997 Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for those

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