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Disrupting the Equilibrium on Rizzo’s Discussion

The March 2017 “Liberty Matters” discussion was very nice, featuring contributions from several Austrian economists who are all my acquaintances/friends. Mario Rizzo was my dissertation chair at NYU. Because my time is brief, I am not going to talk about the more important issues everybody discussed. Instead I am going to quibble with one little […]

Potpourri

==> The latest Contra Krugman details just how awesome the Contra Cruise was. And we talk about Krugman for a bit, too. ==> I have not explored this, but the SAFE network’s proponents claim it is better than blockchain technology. ==> The widely read von Pepe sends along two pieces from Larry White (here and […]

Potpourri

==> Mario Rizzo stands up for economic freedom and tolerance. ==> A few people have told me to highlight this apparent Krugman Kontradiction on unemployment benefits and job search (scroll down a bit). I actually highlighted this when it initially occurred (perhaps because somebody brought it to my attention, I can’t remember). However, Krugman on […]

“In the Long Run, People Will Assess You Based on Policy Preferences”

I’m not even going to bother digging up links (here’s a Mario Rizzo discussion, you can follow him to Krugman et al.), but in the blogosphere recently there was a discussion about what idiots/liars people were, who used John Maynard Keynes’ famous line, “In the long run, we’re all dead,” to suggest that Keynes’ policy […]

Great Posts on the Minimum Wage

It’s reassuring to see that if I ever decided to retire to the Caribbean permanently, my US-based free-market colleagues would carry forward the torch of liberty. Here are some great posts on the minimum wage: ==> Steve Landsburg ==> Bryan Caplan ==> Scott Sumner (though it’s on ObamaCare technically, but could be applied to minimum […]

Mario Rizzo’s Ludwig Lachmann Impression

There’s some other stuff about Israel Kirzner in here you might find interesting, but in yet another contribution, the wry von Pepe points us to 45:00 in this video: