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Where to Find Me
A few upcoming events: I’ll be at the Warwick Economics Summit February 17-19, speaking on the 18th. I’ll be speaking at the Adam Smith Institute in London on February 20. On February 23, I’ll be at...
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Laugh of the Day
It’s been a while since I laughed out loud quite this hard. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Why Jews Don’t Farm
I’ve been a little swamped lately and my daily blogging has fallen off. Until things get back to normal, I think I’ll fill the breach by reprinting a few of my old columns from Slate. Today’s entry is...
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Rock On
I don’t trust rocks. Rocks keep fooling me. They sit there looking all solid until you examine them more carefully and find out they’re mostly empty space, with a smattering of charged particles here...
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Pro and Contra-ception
I’d been planning a blog post on the birth control mandate, but it turns out that John Cochrane has already said everything worth saying. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Your President Hopes You’re Stupid
When an ideologically diverse roomful of economists, upon hearing the announcement of a new presidential policy, bursts into unanimous laughter, you can be pretty sure the president is trying to pull a...
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Live From Warwick
Apparently my Saturday talk at the Warwick Economics Summit (like several of the others) will be streamed live over the Internet here. I go on at 8:55AM eastern standard time, but don’t feel like you...
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What Is It Like to Talk Batty?
Sometimes I think we should license economics writers. Thomas Nagel is a prominent philosopher (author of the provocative and widely anthologized essay What is it Like to be a Bat?) who’s just reviewed...
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Who Expected THAT?
Suppose you go around taking extremely close-up black-and-white pictures of randomly chosen natural and unnatural objects (rocks, trees, streams, buildings, etc.). What do they look like? Well, each...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The London subway stations have NO trash receptacles. The tracks look like this: The New York subway stations have more trash receptacles than I can count. The tracks look like this: Click here to...
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Frankly Speaking
Here’s something curious about this year’s political rhetoric: The Republican candidates claim that President Obama has made things worse, while he claims he’s made things better. You might not think...
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