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For a Forbes symposium on job creation, I’ve proposed that we

A small set of ideas does most of the heavy lifting in economics.

Today is a historic day in Austrian economics. Today a Ph.D.-level seminar in Austrian economics commences at the University of Missouri.

As one who loves consistency, I have urged Paul Krugma

Here’s Suffolk University economist Benjamin Powell on farm subsidies and their effect on poor countries (like recently-decimated-by-flooding Pakis

Mark J. Perry alerts us to a great quote from P.J.

This was in my RSS feed: Stephen Budiansky does some of the math and finds

Just to add to the knowledge base, this is a real winner. You might have noted problems on the blog today. No one could figure it out.

We all have a price, or so I’ve been told. Whether we do or not is probably a function of our individual ethical threshold.

I had known that copyright killed music in Britain in the 18th and 19th century and that the absence of copyright laws in Germany had encouraged it