How to Cheat with Cost-Benefit Analysis: Double Count the Benefits
Calculating "multiplier effects" is perhaps the most common method of cheating with benefit-cost analysis.
Calculating "multiplier effects" is perhaps the most common method of cheating with benefit-cost analysis.
In 2004, Hans Hoppe delivered a series of lectures at the Mises Institute about his theory of social evolution, and we are fortunate to have this volume, based on a transcript of those lectures, now available.
The Fed is backed into a corner. If price inflation continues, the public could demand action and the Fed could be forced to cut back the flow of easy money, which may lead to a depression.
Millions of Americans have no conception of economics, and simply don’t believe tradeoffs exist.
Paul Krugman’s “logical problem” with ABCT derives entirely from his superficial understanding of the theory.
The people who really run California aren't going anywhere. Even if California voters throw out Newsom very little will change in state government.
What we’re beginning to see is policy ghettoization, wherein states pass laws that the most fervent activists on the left and right, respectively, cannot enact at the federal level.
The Fed’s apparent plan to somehow get to full employment and then deal with inflation sounds nice, but reality could easily derail the plan. Meanwhile, job growth is low and prices are rising.
Wilhelm von Humboldt ’s opposition to the reactionary policies of his government gained him as much ill-will at court as it did popularity among the people.
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to Bush’s antiterrorism crusade.