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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently caused something of an uproar when he contrasted the “the frigidity of rugged…

Mass deportation is often framed as a pro‑worker policy. Remove unauthorized immigrants, the argument goes, and native wages will rise…

On this post by Kevin Corcoran, frequent commentator Steve writes: “Is there a health care system in the world that…

I have a new working paper with Bart Wilson titled: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car: Moral Intuition for Intellectual Property.”…

Economists extol the importance of competition in markets for driving prices down and quality up. But what is “competition” and…

It is time to explore the principles on which human nature has been constructed and the social structures that are…

In any principles of economics class, students learn the difference between accounting profit and economic profit. Accounting profit, which is…

On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro and his bearded revolutionaries marched into Havana. Church bells rang across the island as…

With the holidays upon us, what could be better than Christmas movies? And Christmas songs? And Christmas movies with great…

Every line trending upward, every drop in cost, every additional ounce of efficiency we can squeeze from a bundle of…