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Public policy: Are we safer now? 18 Jul 2013 | 04:29 pm
Financial Times July 17, 2013 Five years ago, residents of Heathfield Crescent in the northeastern English city of Newcastle were woken by an exploding petrol bomb. A feud was raging once again on th...
The Economic Sense in Game of Thrones 30 Jun 2013 | 03:33 pm
by Matt McCaffrey and Carmen Dorobăț Mises Daily June 7, 2013 [Editor's Note: This article is spoiler-free.] The popular HBO series Game of Thrones is ending its third season this Sunday, amid fan ...
How Do Societies Avoid Collapse? 30 Jun 2013 | 01:19 pm
Property & Environment Research Center June 7, 2013 Economic research has long been subject to a pitfall: it lacks a laboratory in which to carry out simple experiments. Unlike sciences such as physi...
In Reckoning a Law's Cost, Final Score Unclear 29 Jun 2013 | 12:12 pm
by Carl Bialik Wall Street Journal June 28, 2013 The official scorers of federal legislation gave backers of a sweeping immigration bill major support with the recent finding that the proposed law w...
We, the Corporations? 16 Jun 2013 | 08:23 pm
by Luigi Zingales Project Syndicate May 31, 2013 You would think that 600,000 comments on a petition would be sufficient to bring an issue to the top of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s a...
Why Turkey is Rebelling 10 Jun 2013 | 12:31 pm
by Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Project Syndicate June 4, 2013 Turkey’s economy has been booming for a decade, earning praise not only from financial markets, but also from development economists like Jeffr...
Privacy is overrated 1 May 2013 | 05:17 pm
by Richard A. Posner New York Daily News April 28, 2013 This past Monday, Mayor Bloomberg said that in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, the country’s interpretation of the Constitution “wil...
The End of ‘Marriage’ 14 Apr 2013 | 04:31 am
by Laurie Shrage New York Times November 4, 2012 The institution of marriage has become the focus of public debate and reform, not just in the state-by-state political battles familiar to us in the ...
An Economist Who Made the Science Less Dismal 7 Apr 2013 | 05:40 am
by David R. Henderson Wall Street Journal February 19, 2013 In 1975, I attended a week-long conference in Connecticut at which the star attraction was Friedrich Hayek. Hayek, who had shared the 1974...
Η Γραφειοκρατική Τανάλια 6 Apr 2013 | 07:31 pm
του Αθαν. Χ. Παπανδρόπουλου European Business Review 2 Απριλίου 2013 Το γραφειοκρατικό τέρας δεν παίζεται, στην Ελλάδα και χλευάζει κυριολεκτικά υπουργικές δηλώσεις και κενά περιεχομένου νομοθετήματ...