Economy
The Licensing Racket
[unable to retrieve full-text content]I review a very good new book on occupational licensing, The L ...View More
How effective was pandemic aid?
[unable to retrieve full-text content]We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variatio ...View More
*Atlantic Cataclysm*
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The author is David Eltis and the subtitle is Rethinking the A ...View More
The Afrikaner exception
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The White House just issued an executive order on South Africa ...View More
“By your culture, we shall know ye”
[unable to retrieve full-text content]From President Trump: At my direction, we are going to make th ...View More
Michael Pettis responds in the FT
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Robert Armstrong at the FT gives him a chance to respond to No ...View More
Alex and I consider how to reform the NSF in economics
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here is a redux of our 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives p ...View More
My excellent Conversation with Ross Douthat on God and religion
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here is the audio, video, and transcript. I am very glad Ross ...View More
“Can America Win the AI War with China?”
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A long video chat, with Geoffrey Cain, who is more hawkish tha ...View More
Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Are we in a trade war today? Who knows? Doesn’t really m ...View More
