Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Here's George Will, in today's Washington Post, speaking great good sense about the alleged need for a new New Deal. (Will quotes Russ, and mentions Amity Shlaes's important book The Forgotten Man; unfortunately, although he hints at Bob Higgs's work,...
Contrarian Musings (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Don Boudreaux’ column from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: The blessing for which we should be most grateful is that we still live in a society in which markets remain the chief means of directing economic activity. Let us give thanks that, despite the many hurdles put in the way of people who make their way in [...]
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Stationary bandits and floating ones.
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Some persons understand the role of relative prices -- understand that prices work only if they are permitted to adjust in order to reflect relative scarcities -- understand that the hardships that sometimes accompany such adjustments are the necessary price...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
In my latest column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, I argue that government grows not because markets fail, but because markets succeed so well yet so silently, Here's a paragraph:In modern America, the market's bounty is assumed always to be there,...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Here's Tyler Cowen, writing in the New York Times, helping to set the record straight about the Great Depression and the New Deal.
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The acclaimed economic historian Price Fishback has this very useful discussion, at Freakonomics, on the extent to which Keynesian stimulus played a role in helping the economy during the 1930s and during World War II. (HT Bob Higgs)
The Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Don Boudreaux gives thanks last Wednesday to the free market.
