ECONOMY

The Public Choice Outreach Conference

There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! Do encourage your students to apply!  …

12 months ago

The Decline of Manufacturing

Look at the incredible decline of manufacturing across a wide variety of industries in the figure below. Nearly 7.5 million…

12 months ago

Manufacturing share vs. GDP

Via Basil Halperin.  This is not a question of confusing causation and correlation, if anything it is the protectionists who…

1 year ago

Sell Floyd Bennett Field!

I’ve been shouting Sell! for many years. Perhaps now is the chance to do it. Here’s a recap: The Federal…

1 year ago

The Madmen and the AIs

In Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance Harang Ju and Sinan Aral (both at MIT)…

1 year ago

China’s Medicines are Saving American Lives

The Economist reports that China is now the second largest producer of new pharmaceuticals, after the United States. China has…

1 year ago

Public Choice Outreach Conference!

The annual Public Choice Outreach Conference is a crash course in public choice. The conference is designed for undergraduates and…

1 year ago

Visits to the Doctor, Per Year

The number of times people visit the doctor per year varies tremendously across OECD countries from a low of 2.9…

1 year ago

Games we played

I always loved games and card games, and they played a big role in family life.  It was one activity…

1 year ago

What I’ve been reading

1. Eric Topol, Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity.  Longevity research goes mainstream!  Very clearly written, well argued, and…

1 year ago