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Climate Change Activists Move Goalposts Yet Again

My latest IER post. An excerpt: In the present post, I’ll walk through yet another example of this phenomenon, in this case a recent ThinkProgress article that complains that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) isn’t a good metric when it comes to the debate over climate change. As we’ll see, when confronted with very compelling arguments […]

You’ve Heard of Moneyball…

…now get a load of the Efficient Majors Hypothesis, or EMH. A sample: EUGENE: All right, it’s worth asking what those fees for active management have actually delivered to the investors. I ran a statistical analysis on the National League all the way back to 1876. Do you know that in every single season, when […]

The Market Loves Jackie Robinson

My latest article at LibertyChat. An excerpt: There was another example of this pattern very soon afterwards in the movie. Jackie Robinson’s team (he was not yet with the Dodgers organization) was traveling on a bus and stopped for gas. He got off the bus and approached the bathroom at the station, but the white […]

The Most Narcissistic Post of All Time

I’m not making this up, somebody is writing up a post on my contributions to economic education. He even asked me for some of my favorite quotations on economics in general, and energy economics in particular. So, uh, if any of you have any candidates of “great Murphy quotes,” let me know. I’m arrogant, but […]

Game Theory, Rational Women, and Dead Husbands

I also manage to contradict Tyler Cowen in this one. There’s a lot going on, it’s a jumbled mess. Just click through if you’re interested.

Potpourri

==> I point out Krugman’s extremely misleading commentary on the fast food strike. ==> You guys all forgot about Human Action’s 65th birthday, didn’t you? ==> This is a neat puzzle about the implications of common knowledge etc. ==> I’m not going to write on it anymore, but a comparable perspective on plea bargains that […]

“If You Hate the Government So Much, Move to Somalia!”

I tackle this common objection in my latest LibertyChat article. An excerpt: People lose the ability to think rationally when it comes to politics, so let’s change the context for a moment. Suppose I say, “You can get a better night’s sleep if the room is dark.” Would it be a good put-down for a […]

Further Thoughts on Plea Bargains

I tried to deal with some of the (excellent) objections I got from my last post. An excerpt: Don’t plea bargains minimize the coercion against individuals? As one critic put it, who is the “victim” here? How does a defendant lose by being offered a deal that he has the right to refuse? Although superficially plausible, […]