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- In Memoriam: Armen Alchian
- In Memoriam: James M. Buchanan
- The Max U Approach: Prudence Only, or Not Even Prudence? A Smithian Perspective
- Model Distraction: A Comment on Daveri and Tabellini
- Did John Lott Provide Bad Data to the NRC? A Note on Aneja, Donohue, and Zhang
- Substance vs. Sideshows in the More Guns, Less Crime Debate: A Comment on Moody, Lott, and Marvell
- Did Jose Canseco Really Improve the Performance of His Teammates by Spreading Steroids? A Critique of Gould and Kaplan
- The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco: A Reply to J. C. Bradbury
- Big Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries
- Why the Denial? Low-Cost Private Schools in Developing Countries and Their Contributions to Education
- Was Occupational Licensing Good for Minorities? A Critique of Marc Law and Mindy Marks
- Occupational Licensing and Minorities: A Reply to Klein, Powell, and Vorotnikov
- Freedom Versus Coercion in Industrial Ecology: A Reply to Boons
- Freedom Versus Coercion in Industrial Ecology: Mind the Gap!
- Fact Versus Conjecture in the History of Industrial Waste Utilization
- Race, Ethnicity, and Baseball Card Prices: A Replication, Correction, and Extension of Hewitt, Muñoz, Oliver, and Regoli
- Supplement to “Race, Ethnicity, and Baseball Card Prices: A Replication, Correction, and Extension of Hewitt, Muñoz, Oliver, and Regoli”
- Beyond Race Cards in America’s Pastime: An Appreciative Reply to Findlay and Santos
- The Unemployment Impact of the 2008 Extension of Unemployment Insurance: As High as Robert Barro Suggested?
- Adam Smith and Liberal Economics: Reading the Minimum Wage Debate of 1795-96
- Unfortunately Unfamiliar with Robert Higgs and Others: A Rejoinder to Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s
- Constraints on Housing Supply: Natural and Regulatory
- Dropping the Geographic-Constraints Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox
- Troubling Research on Troubled Assets: Charles Zheng on the U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan
- Growth Accelerations Revisited
- A Reply to Steven Horwitz’s Commentary on “Great Expectations and the End of the Depression”
- Econometric Errors in an Applied Economics Article
- Outliers and the Halloween Effect: Comment on Maberly and Pierce
- Great Apprehensions, Prolonged Depression: Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s
- The Debate on Shall Issue Laws, Continued
- More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006
- Goldin and Katz and Education Policy Failings in Historical Perspective
- Some Anomalies Arising from Bandwagons that Impart Upward Sloping Segments to Market Demand
- Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody and Marvell
- The Debate on Shall-Issue Laws
- The Soviet Economic Decline Revisited
- Reply to Brendan Beare
- The Diluted Economics of Casinos and Crime: A Rejoinder to Grinols and Mustard’s Reply
- Connecting Casinos and Crime: More Corrections of Walker
- Smoking in Restaurants: Rejoinder to Alamar and Glantz
- Externalities in the Workplace: A Response to a Rejoinder to a Response to a Response to a Paper
- Do Casinos Really Cause Crime?
- Correctly Critiquing Casino-Crime Causality
- Highway Penetration of Central Cities: Not a Major Cause of Suburbanization
- Reply to Cox, Gordon, and Redfearn’s Comment on “Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?”
- Growth Accelerations and Regime Changes: A Correction
- The EITC Disincentive: A Reply to Dr. Hilary Hoynes
- Gulphs in Mankind’s Career of Prosperity: A Critique of Adam Smith on Interest Rate Restrictions
- Smoking in Restaurants: Who Best to Set the House Rules?
- Smoking in Restaurants: A Reply to David Henderson
- Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Capital, Risk, Malfeasance, and Mismanagement
- Quantifying Moral Hazard: A Reply to Gary Richardson
- The EITC Disincentive: The Effects on Hours Worked from the Phase-out of the Earned Income Tax Credit
- The EITC Disincentive: A Reply to Paul Trampe
- Symposium Introduction: Trailblazers Too Lightly Mentioned?
- The Economic Analysis of Constitutions: Fatalism Versus Vitalism
- The Empirical Institutions-Growth Literature: Is Something Amiss at the Top?
- Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development
- In Memoriam: Milton Friedman
- Empire: Public Goods and Bads
- Death and Taxes, Including Inflation: the Public versus Economists
- Textbooks and Pure Fiscal Policy: The Neglect of Monetary Basics
- Handling Economic Freedom in Growth Regressions: Suggestions for Clarification
- Handling Economic Freedom in Growth Regressions: A Reply to Cole and Lawson
- On Testing the Connection between Economic Freedom and Growth
- How to Handle Economic Freedom: Reply to Lawson
- Assume the Positional: Comment on Robert Frank
- Taking Libertarian Concerns Seriously: Reply to Kashdan and Klein
- Work Incentives and Employment are the Wrong Explanation of Sweden’s Success
- Second Reply to Bergh
- A Little More Liberty: What the JEL Omits in Its Account of What the Economic Report of the President Omits
- Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Money: A Reply to Michener and Wright—Yet Again
- Is the Swedish Welfare State A Free Lunch?
- The Welfare State Is the Wrong Target: A Reply to Bergh
- Farley Grubb’s Noisy Evasions on Colonial Money: A Rejoinder
- Miscounting Money of Colonial America
- Theory, Evidence, and Belief— The Colonial Money Puzzle Revisited: Reply to Michener and Wright
- Rejoinder to Wittman: True Myths
- Second Reply to Caplan: The Power and the Glory of the Median Voter
- From Friedman to Wittman: The Transformation of Chicago Political Economy
- Reply to Caplan: On the Methodology of Testing for Voter Irrationality
- Rejoinder to Pesendorfer
- Second Reply to Coelho, Klein, and McClure
- Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands
- “Credibility” in Context: Do Central Bankers and Economists Interpret the Term Differently?
- Identity and Politics in School Reform Research
- Fashion Cycles in Economics
- Response to “Fashion Cycles in Economics”
- Rate of Economic Growth, Level of Development, and Income Inequality: Rejoinder to the Reply by Edwards and McGuirk
- Does Economic Performance Correlate with Big Government?
- Kuznets Curveball: Missing the Regional Strike Zone
- Reply to Chang and Ram: Statistical Adequacy and the Reliability of Inference
- Statist Quo Bias
- Response to Klein
- Reply to Sunstein
- Rejoinder to De Alessi
- Response to Edwards and McGuirk: Income Level, Economic Growth, and Inequality: Flawed Methodology and Inaccurate Inference
- Overlooking the Obvious in Africa
- How to Get Real About Organs
- Response to Tabarrok
- Reply to Byrne and Thompson
- Stock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle
- An Ivory-Tower Take on the Ivory Trade
- Response to De Alessi
- Reply to Kremer
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion?
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Organ Liberalization?
- The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey
- Rent Control: Do Economists Agree?
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Household and Municipal Recycling?
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion On Rail Transit?
- Do Economists Reach A Conclusion on Road Pricing? The Intellectual History of an Idea
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Taxi Deregulation?
- Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Free-Banking Episodes?
- Licensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree?
- Postal Reform
- Prohibition vs. Legalization: Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Drug Policy?
Economics in Practice
- Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier: Reflections on Some Trends in Empirical Macroeconomics
- Reply to Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak on Statistical Significance
- We Agree That Statistical Significance Proves Essentially Nothing: A Rejoinder to Thomas Mayer
- Paul Krugman Denies Having Concurred With an Administration Forecast: A Note
- Ziliak and McCloskey’s Criticisms of Significance Tests: An Assessment
- Statistical Significance in the New Tom and the Old Tom: A Reply to Thomas Mayer
- Mankiw vs. DeLong and Krugman on the CEA’s Real GDP Forecasts in Early 2009: What Might a Time Series Econometrician Have Said?
- The Euro: It Happened, It’s Not Reversible, So… Make It Work
- It Can’t Happen, It’s a Bad Idea, It Won’t Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989-2002
- I Was a Euro Enthusiast
- A Political Scientist’s Perspective
- Understanding the Euro Requires Political Economy, Not Just Economics
- Reflections on Currency Reform and the Euro
- It Has Happened—And It Will Continue to Succeed
- There Was No Analytical Alternative to the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
- Mundell Changed His Mind
- The Secret of the Euro’s Success
- The Euro and the German Veto
- Occupational Licensing: Scant Treatment in Labor Texts
- The Curtailment of Critical Commentary in Australian Economics
- The Market for Lemmas: Evidence That Complex Models Rarely Operate in Our World
- “Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass
- Got Replicability? The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Archive
- Thriving at Amazon: How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today
- Model Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory
- Where Would Adam Smith Publish Today? The Near Absence of Math-free Research in Top Journals
- The Internet and the Structure of Discourse: The Websites of Economists at Harvard and George Mason
- Reasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement
- The Costs of Critical Commentary in Economics Journals
- Why Has Critical Commentary Been Curtailed at Top Economics Journals? A Reply to Robert Whaples
- Textbook Entrepreneurship: Comment on Johansson
- Decline in Critical Commentary, 1963-2004
- Economics without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks
- Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review
- In Sweden, Anti-Globalizationists Dominate Public Discourse, Econ Profs Do Little
Intellectual Tyranny of the Status Quo
- Property: A Bundle of Rights? Prologue to the Property Symposium
- Bundle-of-Sticks Notions in Legal and Economic Scholarship
- Two Cheers for the Bundle-of-Sticks Metaphor, Three Cheers for Merrill and Smith
- Bundle-of-Rights Theory as a Bulwark Against Statist Conceptions of Private Property
- The Regulative Function of Property Rights
- The Property Prism
- The False Promise of the Right to Exclude
- A Bundle Theorist Holds On to His Collection of Sticks
- Potentiality, Actuality, and “Stick”-Theory
- Property Is Not Just a Bundle of Rights
- Colleagues, Where Is the Market Failure? Economists on the FDA
- Reply to Hortlund’s “Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine”
- In Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine
- Damned If You Do: Comment on Schuler’s Argentina Analysis
- Argentina’s problems went far beyond the absence of a strict currency board: Comment on Schuler
- Reply to David Altig and Brad Setser
- Gold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy
- Ignorance and Influence: U.S. Economists on Argentina’s Depression of 1998-2002
- Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists
- The Development Set: The Character of the Journal of Development Economics 2002
- Agricultural Economists and the State
Investigating the Apparatus
- Advanced Placement Economics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The Ideological Profile of Harvard University Press: Categorizing 494 Books Published 2000-2010
- Does Economics Have a Gender?
- Reaching the Top? On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession
- On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession
- Mr. Max and the Substantial Errors of Manly Economics
- Diversity in Tastes, Values, and Preferences: Comment on Jonung and Ståhlberg
- Preferences Underlying Women’s Choices in Academic Economics
- What Is the Right Number of Women? Hints and Puzzles from Cognitive Ability Research
- The Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics
- The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics
- The National Research Council Ranking of Research Universities: Its Impact on Research in Economics
- Institutional Ties of Journal of Development Economics Authors and Editors
- The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?
- Citation Counts and SSCI in Personnel Decisions: A Survey of Economics Departments
Character Issues
- Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A Symposium Prologue
- Where Is the Next Rose Director?
- Why Are There No Milton Friedmans Today?
- Why Is There No New Milton Friedman Today?
- Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today
- Mistah Friedman? He Dead.
- The Uniqueness of Milton Friedman
- Why Milton Friedman Was Rare
- Why There Is No New Milton Friedman
- On Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today: Sui Generis, Sui Temporis
- Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?
- Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?
- Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?
- Economics Professors’ Voting, Policy Views, Favorite Economists, and Frequent Lack of Consensus
- Characteristics of the Members of Twelve Economic Associations: Voting, Policy Views, and Favorite Economists
- The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom
- Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)
- Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA?
- The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson: Excerpts from W.R. Scott
- A Life among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA
- Economics, Economists, and Economic Policy: Modern American Experiences
- Czech Economists on Economic Policy: A Survey
- Economist Petitions: Ideology Revealed
- When the White House Changes Party, Do Economists Change Their Tune on Budget Deficits?
- Convictions Opposed to Certain Popular Opinions: The 1903 Anti-Protectionism Letter Supported by 16 British Economists
- The Scottish Tradition in Economic Thought
- Do Economists Believe American Democracy Is Working?
- The Present State of Economic Science
- Honestly, Who Else Would Fund Such Research? Reflections of a Non-Smoking Scholar
- Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006
- Economists Against Smoot-Hawley
- The Role of Economists in Liberalizing Swedish Agriculture
- The Practical Utility of Economic Science
- Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal on the Role of the Economist in Public Debate
- A List of the 364 Economists Who Objected to Thatcher’s Macro Policy
- 364 Economists on Economic Policy
- AEA Ideology: Campaign Contributions of American Economic Association Members, Committee Members, Officers, Editors, Referees, Authors, and Acknowledgees
- Sense and Sensibilities: Myrdal’s Plea for Self-Disclosure and Some Disclosures on AEA Members
- The Role of Economists in Ending the Draft
- The Mathematical Romance: An Engineer’s View of Mathematical Economics
- Scholasticism versus Pietism: The Battle for the Soul of Economics
- Preference Falsification in the Economics Profession
- Learning to Lose a Leg: Casualties of PhD Economics Training in Stockholm
Watchpad
- Euro Politics: An Interview with Roland Vaubel
- Rating Government Bonds: Can We Raise Our Grade?
- Introduction to Symposium on U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics
- Some Possible Consequences of a U.S. Government Default
- The Bond Market Wins
- How a Default Might Play Out
- Courting an Avoidable Financial Crisis
- How and Why a U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Occur
- Economic Enlightenment Revisited: New Results Again Find Little Relationship Between Education and Economic Enlightenment but Vitiate Prior Evidence of the Left Being Worse
- Remarks from 1809 by Dupont de Nemours on Adam Smith
- An Award for Calling the Crash
- The Unenlightening “Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology and Other Variables”
- Economic Enlightenment Poll Creates More Heat Than Light
- Identification Problems in Economic Enlightenment Surveys: A Comment on Buturovic and Klein
- A Rigged Test: A Critical Look at Buturovic and Klein’s Conception of “Economic Enlightenment”
- 44 Economists Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices
- Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans
- 305 Economists Called to Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices
- Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform
- Preference Falsification in Teaching
- Confessions of a College Non-Economizer
- Economic Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Math Gamer, the Anti-Policy Econometrician and the Narrative Political Economist
- A Reply to Daniel Klein on Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand
- Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth
- In Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands: Comment on Gavin Kennedy
- Intellectual Hazard: A Liberal Selection of Quotations
- Desperately Seeking Smithians: Responses to the Questionnaire about Building an Identity
- Toward a Public and Professional Identity for Our Economics
- Uncovering the Costs of the Iraq War
- Salute to Schelling: Keeping It Human
- Ken Kam and Market Efficiency
Knowledge vs. Information Symposium
- Information-Knowledge Symposium: Introduction
- Making Connections
- Information, Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom
- Information, the Tip of the Tacit Iceberg
- Information-Knowledge and Action-Knowledge
- Why Distinguish Between Information and Knowledge?
- Musings on Information and Knowledge
- Why the Distinction Between Knowledge and Belief Might Matter
- Symposium on Information and Knowledge: Arrow Correspondence
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