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Potpourri

==> Richard Ebeling on the “inequality trap.” ==> A NYT article about some of the wacky freedom fighters in New Hampshire. This is my target audience for the Bob Murphy Variety Show at Porcfest (happening again this June, by the way!). ==> Joe Stromberg on the semantics of the term “laissez-faire.” ==> A project to […]

Politics vs. Science at the IPCC

In this post for IER I quote from two of the Lead Authors of the latest IPCC report. It confirms what some of us have been saying for years. The intro: Those pushing for aggressive government intervention in the name of fighting climate change often claim that “the science is settled” and dismiss any dissenters […]

The Importance of Capital in Economic Theory

This is my EconLib article this month. I told the editor that this isn’t my personal favorite piece, and it’s not my “best” piece in some objective sense. But if I had to pick a single article (word for word) to represent my contribution to professional economics, it would be this one. It summarizes some […]

“Fresh Air” Really Grinds My Gears

My inaugural article at LibertyChat, where I’ll be contributing weekly. An excerpt: Earlier this week I was listening to an interesting episode of the NPR show “Fresh Air.” The host, Terry Gross, was interviewing the New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins, who was recounting his experience in Iraq while he was researching his latest article. Filkins gave […]

More on Piketty

Here’s my latest Mises Canada post, in which I show how Brad DeLong actually (though it’s not his intent) concedes that Piketty’s entire case is built on quicksand. Matt Rognlie (who I think is this PhD econ student at MIT) left what may be the most important comments in a MR blog post this year. […]

Some Background on Capital Controversy

I am going to be putting out stuff in the coming month on why Thomas Piketty’s use of a neoclassical aggregate production function is so dubious–Austrians and Post-Keynesians agree–but if you just can’t bear the suspense, here are three links: ==> I walk through the “reswitching” controversy, focusing on Paul Samuelson’s excellent numerical example. […]

Hayek > Krugman

I focused on Mises in my Mises Canada post, but I also should highlight this part: Thus we see the where Finegold is coming from, when he claims that Krugman is clearly a better (or more important) economist than Rothbard, and that Krugman is indeed comparable to Mises and Hayek. It will be easier for […]

Mises >> Krugman

Jonathan MF Catalan decided I had too much time on my hands, and so claimed on his blog that Krugman is hands-down a better economist than Rothbard, and is indeed comparable to Ludwig von Mises. At Mises Canada I provide part 1 of my response, dealing with Mises vs. Krugman. Later I’ll do Rothbard vs. […]