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To Understand Public Policy, First Understand Markets

That’s the title of my promo for next week’s 6-week Mises Academy online class, going through the middle section–covering the economics of the pure market economy–of my textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist.

Potpourri

==> I am going to be at the First Annual “Save Long Island” Forum in mid-January. If you buy your tickets in 2013, they are 50% off. I will be debating “Money Masters”‘ Bill Still Friday night, and there are lots of interesting speakers/performers. ==> Tucker talks teetotalling in a tux. ==> The NSA really […]

Blinder vs. Mises on Winners & Losers

Such is the topic of my latest Mises Canada blog post.

A Reader Comment on Lessons for the Young Economist

I got this from Peter S., who gave me permission to repost: Message: Hey i am Peter [S.] I am 17 and a senior in high school in Philadelphia and I just read your textbook “Lessons for the Young Economist” and I found it wonderful. I recently became interestied in Hayek, Mises and other Austrians […]

If You Must Have More Murphy

Here I am on Twitter. Been there for a while, but I realized some of you might be missing out on all the hijinx.

Austrian Economists Photobomb Krugman

[UPDATE below.] Eduardo Bellani in the comments of my previous post tells us to look at the poster hanging over Krugman’s shoulder at his recent interview with Joe Weisenthal: In case people don’t recognize it, it’s clearly this poster: Looks like the folks at Mises.org are sneaking up on Krugman. Hey, I warned him not […]

Scott Sumner Wants to Take Income Away From All of Us

In a post titled, “Income is meaningless, example #388” Scott quotes from Matt Yglesias who wrote: One issue this poses is that analysis of political issues in terms of “income” quartiles can get pretty misleading. A married couple where dad earns $65,000 a year and mom works part time bringing home $15,000 a year is […]

More on Drug Cartels and Private Law

I realized from the reaction of some people here that I did not assure readers I had fully understood Gene Callahan’s point, when he claimed that drug cartels today offer a real-world glimpse into what Rothbardian defense agencies would look like. So I wrote a follow-up post to be sure I acknowledged Gene’s exact point, […]