Michael Munger

Economics

‘Fine, I’ll Bake Your Stupid Cake’ Free Association Fuels Free Enterprise

Flower Mound, Texas, is about thirty miles northwest of Dallas. It straddles two counties: Denton, in which Trump won 56…

Read More »
Economics

Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less regulation, Low Inflation

There’s something happening here. What it is, ain’t exactly clear.   Around the world, there is growing impatience with the orthodoxies…

Read More »
Economics

Understanding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

In the past decade, the theoretical and empirical arguments of French economist Thomas Piketty have attracted widespread attention.

Read More »
Economics

Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs

Politicians want to create jobs, “good-paying union jobs,” in existing industries.  But that’s not what markets do. The “destructive” part…

Read More »
Economics

Alfred Marshall’s Scissors

Angry headlines have recently proclaimed “Kroger Executive Admits Company Gouged Prices Above Inflation,” and “Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to…

Read More »
Economics

What Americans Can Learn From Venezuela’s Crackdown on ‘Price Gougers’

"Ten years ago, Venezuela set out on a path to economic ruin and grave shortages of basic consumer goods, because…

Read More »
Economics

Free Kids from Their Cells

"To keep our kids from harm, we have exposed them to brain-altering habits, online predators, and addictive pastimes that don’t…

Read More »
Economics

Economic Observations of Beach Parking

"The idea of 'line up!' is deeply ingrained in most of us, to the point where we are angry if…

Read More »
Economics

ULTRAs: The Worst Idea You’ve Never Heard Of

"Instead of taking two percent (say) of the liquidated value of the wealth, the state would simply take ownership of…

Read More »
Economics

Stiglitz: When Good Minds Seek Fools’ Favor

"Stiglitz believes 'education' should be explicitly designed to attack property rights and to weaken the sense of American exceptionalism, the…

Read More »
Back to top button