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TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Marty Makary busts myths about long covid. Two slices: Long Covid is real. I have reliable patients who describe...
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TweetBrian Riley dissects Robert Lighthizer’s recent New York Times op-ed on U.S. trade with China. Two slices: In a weekend op-ed for the New York Times calling for strategic decoupling from China,...
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TweetCharles Calomiris reviews, in the Wall Street Journal, Phil Gramm’s, Bob Ekelund’s, and John Early’s new book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate. A slice: The...
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TweetJohn Cochrane riffs productively on Charles Calomiris’s review of Phil Gramm’s, Robert Ekelund’s, and John Early’s superb book, The Myth of American Inequality. A slice: Why has work collapsed in...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague, Veronique de Rugy, writing at National Review, points to evidence that Beijing’s industrial policy is weakening China’s economy. A slice: I have always...
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TweetMy GMU Econ colleague Vincent Geloso identifies three errors consistently committed by Paul Ehrlich. Two slices: In the 60 minutes segment, not much appeared to have changed to Ehrlich’s message....
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Tweet… is from page 22 of Eamonn Butler’s 2022 book, An Introduction to Economic Inequality: Meanwhile, life expectancy has risen markedly, and infant mortality is now a rarity. People work fewer hours...
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Tweet… is from page 101 of Eamonn Butler’s 2022 book, An Introduction to Economic Inequality (original emphasis): Redistribution is contradictory: it means treating people unequally in order to produce...
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Tweet… is from page 29 of Eamonn Butler’s 2022 book, An Introduction to Economic Inequality: The traditional explanations of global inequality are also both familiar and questionable. Colonialism and...
View ArticlePittsburgh Tribune-Review: “The sharing economy”
TweetIn my column for the October 8th, 2013, edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I did my best to explain how voluntary exchange incited and guided by market prices results in we humans sharing...
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Tweet… is from page 79 of economists Phil Gramm’s, Robert Ekelund’s, and John Early’s important and data-rich 2022 book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate: The most...
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Tweet… is from page xix of the 2003 Third Edition of economic historian Eric Jones’s 1981 book, The European Miracle: A concern with economic growth does not necessarily mean an indifference to...
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Tweet… is from page 103 of economists Phil Gramm’s, Robert Ekelund’s, and John Early’s important and data-rich 2022 book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate (footnote...
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Tweet… is from page 114 of economists Phil Gramm’s, Robert Ekelund’s, and John Early’s important and data-rich 2022 book, The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate (footnote...
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Tweet… is from page 325 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s excellent volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics (footnote deleted; original emphases): There is, however, a fundamental difference...
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TweetPhil Gramm and Amity Shlaes, writing in the Wall Street Journal, bust myths about ‘gilded ages.’ Two slices: Between 1870 and 1900, America’s inflation-adjusted gross national product expanded by...
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TweetPhil Magness and Steve Miller, writing at National Review, rightly take to task the American Economic Association for awarding the once-prestigious John Bates Clark medal to Gabriel Zucman. A...
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TweetDavid Henderson writes about The Beatles’s – specifically, George Harrison’s – Taxman. A slice: In the United States, we don’t have the high tax rates that George Harrison wrote about in 1966. But...
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TweetBrian Albrecht exposes the errors of Daron Acemoglu’s recent repetition of an old argument – namely, that with access to goo-gobs amount of computer power, central planners can overcome – can...
View ArticleContinuing to Get Straight the Facts About the American Economy
TweetIn my latest column for AIER, I continue to share factual information found in Phil Gramm’s, Robert Ekelund’s, and John Early’s wonderful 2022 book, The Myth of American Inequality. Two slices:...
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