May 14, 2018
A Progressive Hayekian Economic Policy Agenda
As someone who sees himself as neither a libertarian nor a progressive, but who is sympathetic to both sides, I was pleased to recently discover the Bleeding Heart Libertarian blog…
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May 07, 2018
Grocery Stores and American Economic Progress
I have one of the feature articles at EconLib this month. It’s some musings on the evolution of grocery stores and what it says about American economic progress. A snippet:…
April 13, 2018
Read Tomorrow 3.0!
If haven’t yet, you should read Munger’s new book Tomorrow 3.0 , just published by Cambridge. Munger carefully explains how technology is reducing transactions costs in such a way that, very…
April 04, 2018
Antisocial Communitarianism: The Communitarian Defense of Tariffs
Communitarians prize community, belonging, and intra-group loyalty. But the things they are willing to do to their community members, in the name of promoting community, make them awful community members….
March 13, 2018
My Response to Elizabeth Bruenig on Socialism
Over at libertarianism.org, I have a longish blog post responding to the Washington Post’s Elizabeth Bruenig’s two recent columns defending socialism. Some snippets: “The overarching problem with Bruenig’s two-column argument is her…
January 12, 2018
Efficiency Can Be Redistributive
Many economists advocate a “congestion tax” because it improves allocative efficiency. People who value the use of a road less than the total costs (including external congestion effects on other…