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"Change the Game"

So said a billboard when I used to run laps on the rooftop of an NYU building in grad school. At the time I was struggling with a 3rd year paper topic. I was trying to do something “bold” like Nash (at least as depicted in the Ron Howard fib fest) but I ended up […]

The New & Improved Website

Thanks to Ian McDonough who revamped the site’s appearance and took the title seriously when we discussed compensation. If any of you own an Arby’s chain and are big fans of the site, we should talk. In the coming days I am going to make some other, minor changes, like adding a Blogroll etc. We […]

Murphy Praises and Criticizes James Hansen

Uh oh, another post on climate change that may stir up the hornet’s nest in the comments. Anyway, here I give a guest response to NASA’s James Hansen’s open letter to Barack Obama. An excerpt: But there’s the rub. The politicians are not going to [follow Hansen’s advice and] impose a simple carbon tax. Instead, […]

Some Common Sense From Fred Thompson

Easy stuff for Free Advice readers, but refreshing nonetheless. Another actor whose intuition is much sounder than that of our most recent Nobel laureate. (HT2 Rob A.)

Late Night YouTube Posts!!

OK as always, instead of working on whatever it is I’m supposed to be doing right now, I got sidetracked by the related links when I looked up the ending for Episode VI for the previous post. Our theme tonight is Star Wars. This one is pretty good. It reminds me of an idea I […]

EconLog: And Then There Were Three

There’s a new face on the EconLog masthead: that of David Henderson. Congrats, David. Seeing you magically appear in between Bryan Caplan and Arnold Kling reminded me of a movie scene.

TIME Blogger Digs Himself Deeper

Intrigued by Lew Rockwell’s raised hackles, the TIME econ blogger Justin Fox gives a follow-up post. Now look, I am a relative young pup in the field and have thought all these big schisms in Austrian economics are dumb and counterproductive. But this is just silly. After explaining that Lew Rockwell responded to his earlier […]

TIME Hit Piece on Lew Rockwell

This is hilarious (HT2LRC). If you are new to my blog and are just learning about Austrian economics etc., don’t bother clicking the above link. But if you know the ins, outs, whys, and wherefores, just look at how ignorant the TIME blogger is when discussing the factions in Austrian economics. In particular, he implies […]