More On Nancy MacLean’s Egregious ‘Scholarship’
In my previous column I shared some of my (many) responses to Nancy MacLean’s appallingly inaccurate Democracy in Chains, a...
In my previous column I shared some of my (many) responses to Nancy MacLean’s appallingly inaccurate Democracy in Chains, a...
Five years ago there appeared the most appalling instance of academic malpractice that I’ve ever personally engaged with. In her...
There are few television programs that reveal the marvels of modern innovative markets as well as the long-running PBS show,...
The attitudes and opinions of today’s so-called “elite” – those public-opinion formers who Deirdre McCloskey calls “the clerisy” – are...
Among the great pleasures of mastering the economic way of thinking is the access one gains to a stream of...
Jay Bhattacharya invited me to participate in a one-day conference on COVID policy. The conference was held at M.I.T. on...
One of the fundamental lessons of Econ 101 is captured in the acronym TANSTAAFL (pronounced “tan-stah-full”): “There ain’t no such...
A sure-fire way to test the integrity of any argument for government intervention into the economy is to determine what...
A common error in discussions of public policy is to forget that even straightforward-sounding terms often refer to realities with...
Jay Bhattacharya recently issued a powerful warning against pending legislation in California designed to compel physicians to adhere to the...
Since early 2020, the global economy has been severely disrupted. COVID itself, COVID lockdowns, protests against COVID lockdowns, and most...
Among the many recurring myths about free trade is that a country, especially a high-wage country such as the United...