Davis on Regulation and More

Steve Davis has a thoughtful speech on regulation, policy uncertainty, and above all the need for simplicity.  (On the policy uncertainty w...

Economic Growth

An essay. It's an overview of what a growth-oriented policy program might look like. Regulation, finance, health, energy and environment...

Open-Mouth Operations

(Note: This post uses mathjax and has embedded pictures. When posts are reposted elsewhere these often get mangled. If it's not displayi...

Swiss Deflation

The Wall Street Journal Monday Oct 19 offers a reflection on deflation in Switzerland . "It’s as close to an economic consensus as you ...

Do higher interest rates raise or lower inflation?

A new working paper by that title (pdf).  Some of the main ideas are in a longish post from last August . The fact that inflation is so sta...

Open Borders

Alex Tabarrok has a very nice and very short piece at the Atlantic,  The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely . (HT Marginal Revolutio...

Lazear on Dodd-Frank and Capital

Ed Lazear has a nice WSJ oped, " How not to prevent the next financial meltdown ." (Also available here via Hoover .) The main poi...

Uncle Sam Spam

I talked a bit to Binyamin Applebaum about his article in the New York Times,  Behaviorists Show the U.S. How to Improve Government Operatio...