May 10, 2015
Bad Ideas about Trade
In one of its good initiatives, the Obama administration is trying to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership – a multilateral trade treaty with some of the most successful and fast-growing nations West…
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April 27, 2015
Is the Adjuncts’ Rights Movement Anti-Adjunct?
Consider the following: 1. Tenure-track (or other long-term, full benefits) faculty jobs are expensive, while contingent and adjunct faculty are cheap. Georgetown pays adjuncts a much better rate than most…
April 20, 2015
Markets in Votes! Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
I’m very pleased to say that I’ll be delivering the Plenary Address at the 9th Annual Conference of the Felician Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs this Saturday. I’ll be…
April 16, 2015
Examples needed! Pro-market arguments that are based on the mutual benefits of trade.
I’m currently compiling a list of examples of pro-market arguments in the academic literature that are based on the benefits of trade to the trading parties. I’m especially interested in…
April 12, 2015
On Natural Resources
International lawyers often invoke a rule dubbed “Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources [hereinafter PSNR]. The rule reads : “The right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural…
April 08, 2015
Pricing Water
Many of this blog’s readers are familiar with Econtalk, and I want to recommend a terrific recent episode on the importance of not underpricing water with economist David Zetland. It…