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Can a zoning meeting help rush hour traffic? According to Alain Bertaud, urban building regulations can indeed have a major…

Cleveland-Cliffs Chief Executive Lourenco Goncalves’s invocation of “unfairly traded steel” shows, on the contrarymany reasons why free trade is an…

Some 500 economists work for the Federal Reserve System. This is probably more than the entire dismal science faculty at…

We’ve long been told that if there’s one issue economists agree on… it’s free trade. Maybe economists still agree, but…

Soon before the election that made Javier Milei president, 108 economists around the world (including prominent names like Thomas Piketty,…

I began my blogging career at TheMoneyIllusion in early 2009 and ended that blog last year.  In January 2014, I…

A few days ago, I listened to Russ Roberts’s EconTalk interview of cardiologist Eric Topol on the health issues involved…

A report in the Financial Times indicates that Mexico is in the process of eliminating the checks and balances in…

Question: Suppose the demand for fentanyl is perfectly inelastic, and that the users of fentanyl steal from others to acquire…

The Economist has an interesting article speculating that the red state advantage in housing affordability may be about to shrink:…