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At first blush, incarceration would seem to involve a loss of physical mobility – you have to stay in the prison all day and all night.

I don’t know what it is about the Nobel Prize that makes economists fall in love with John Maynard Keynes, but once again I see a Nobel winne

When I saw the title of this Cato podcast–“Intellectual Property Versus Reason”

Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, died this m

Michael Rozeff has a surprising analysis where he lays out a few convincing arguments that gold prices are too high right now, relative to other prices.

An expanded version for The New American of my recent article on the Flat Tax is no

For months Alex Tabarrok has being doing a great job yelling to all the world that this “credit crunch” is bogus.

[From a talk given to a Memphis-area discussion group on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.]

Three economists for the Minneapolis Fed have written a paper called “Myths about the

In another thread here, a commentor asks, “What, exactly, is un-libertarian about “loser pa