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In the NFL offseason, star running back Saquon Barkley signed a $40 million contract extension with the Philadelphia Eagles. Make…

We’d like to welcome a new voice here at Econlib, Sam Enright. Sam works on innovation policy at Progress Irelandan…

When I first started teaching, David Henderson gave me some advice: to be open about who I am regarding my…

A Book Review of Solving Social Dilemmas: Ethics, Politics, and Prosperityby Richard D Congleton. Economists like blackboards. Using chalk (or…

In his 1980 book, Knowledge and DecisionsThomas Sowell highlights the importance of social authentication and verification processes. Does this work?…

Discussions on what constitutes a “fair” (or just) price are quite old.  Classical market liberals will typically classify a fair…

The conclusions we reach about the world are, to a large extent, influenced by our underlying intuitions. Various writers have…

It’s morning in Tokyo. You’re sitting on your balcony with a cup of coffee or tea, enjoying the rising sun…

I watch a lot of nature documentaries. I’m not very choosy about the animals covered, whether whales, moles, lions, ants,…

Process knowledge is hard to measure because it exists mostly in people’s heads and the pattern of their relationships to…