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Part of the @Liberty_Fund Network - Economics for every life. Home of EconLog, EconTalk, the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, and much more.
Indianapolis, IN
Joined May 2009
Econlib welcomes Sam Enright, policy thinker and writer, and the creator of our newest feature, Sam’s Links, your go-to source for sharp insights on what’s worth reading, watching, and listening to. https://t.co/WrEQM9Kux6
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We’d like to welcome a new voice here at Econlib, Sam Enright. Sam works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The...
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What if intelligence isn’t logic, but the ability to imagine new things? Angus Fletcher believes we’re smartest when we stop imitating computers and start storytelling instead: https://t.co/HkFWMz8gzX
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What do Shakespeare, Hollywood storytelling, and military special operations have in common? They all excel at inventing new plans, or improvising when we’re facing radical uncertainty. Listen as...
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This podcast episode is an excellent listen and highlights the tools to living in an uncertain world (which we all always are, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves otherwise).
Want to help your kids be successful in the age of AI? Says story scientist Angus Fletcher, you can’t. Learn why being smart yesterday won’t help you today, and why we’re all more capable than we realize of confronting uncertainty: https://t.co/HkFWMz8gzX
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What unleashed the Great Enrichment? @PeterBoettke joins The @HumanProgress Podcast to examine the institutional foundations of the modern world. https://t.co/W2mBQusigW
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“Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!” Explore King John with Sarah Skwire in our next One Fell Swoop reading group. A violent struggle for power, an unexpected hero, and politics that still resonate. 📅 Nov 18 | 3–4:30 pm EST Register here: https://t.co/YKCNpxl0Uf
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🌱 From a viewpoint of population despair to a belief in resource abundance—discover why Julian Simon had faith in human ingenuity. Explore more → https://t.co/8Ndz0sl3tA
#Sustainability #HumanCreativity #ResourceOptimism
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Introduction Julian Simon Source: Julian Simon’s personal website Three inter-related arguments made Julian Simon famous: that natural resources are practically infinite; that food supplies have been...
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Want to help your kids be successful in the age of AI? Says story scientist Angus Fletcher, you can’t. Learn why being smart yesterday won’t help you today, and why we’re all more capable than we realize of confronting uncertainty: https://t.co/HkFWMz8gzX
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What do Shakespeare, Hollywood storytelling, and military special operations have in common? They all excel at inventing new plans, or improvising when we’re facing radical uncertainty. Listen as...
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Get out your graph paper and sharpen your pencils!!! 📉 Bryan Cutsinger is BACK at EconLog with a 🆕#PriceTheory problem! Submit your solution in the comments today! https://t.co/AMLFguejjh
#Econ101 #TeachEcon
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This is the latest in our series of posts in our series on price theory problems with Professor Bryan Cutsinger. You can see all of Cutsinger’s problems and solutions by subscribing to his EconLog...
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Can stories teach economics? 📖 Explore Martineau & Hazlitt with Nicholas Snow in Economics through Literature: The 19th vs. 20th Century 🗓️ Nov 5 | 5–6:30pm EDT 💻 Register now to join the discussion! Register here: https://t.co/rIoOWpowfk
#Economics #Literature #LibertyFund
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Ever seen a boom and credited the wrong cause? 🪄 Don’t mistake a miracle for its cause. Read more from Max Molden then share one “misattributed miracle” you see in policy, business, or tech. What do people get wrong—and why? 👉 https://t.co/sos7igUX5p
#business #economics
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In times of crisis, we consider what can be done to return to a path of prosperity and wealth. However, there is a tendency to mistake the previous manifestations of economic success—the sectors and...
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🥃 Prohibition wasn’t just about morals—it was about politics. After reading “Straight Whiskey and Dirty Politics,” tell us: which matters more in policy fights—principle, public health, or rent-seeking power? 👇 https://t.co/uGEndjxeSl
#RentSeeking #BootleggersandBaptists
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In the early 20th century, America was buzzing with Progressive Era reforms aimed at taming the excesses of industrialization. One landmark was the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, hailed as a...
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In college, I spent basically every day on @Econlib's website, devouring article after article. I still read it daily. Now, I get to be an author there! My debut piece is the result of an interview I did where the host asserted that government statistics were not to be trusted.
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I’ll be the first to say it. I think that AI will be the Beast (antichrist) from Revelation in the Bible. It will be the last god that humans create before it rules us and controls us without us even realizing it. The world in 10 years is going to be very different.
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My latest @Econlib—the economics of superheroes. And they say I lack childlike wonder. Link in comments
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.@DavidBessis wants to let you in on a secret: Most mathematicians hate computations as much as you did back in high school. In truth, they’re just trying to articulate what it is they really feel: https://t.co/D9qZBktC4d
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What if math isn’t about grinding through equations, but about training your intuition and changing how your brain works? Mathematician and author David Bessis tells EconTalk’s Russ Roberts that the...
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📉 Want a clear, concise breakdown of the 2008 financial crash—its causes, timeline, and lessons? Check out this encyclopedia entry. → https://t.co/IWJy6geoDh
#FinancialCrisis #2008Crash #EconomicLessons
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It was, according to accounts filtering out of the White House, an extraordinary scene. Hank Paulson, the U.S. treasury secretary and a man with a personal fortune estimated at $700m (£380m), had got...
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“Math isn’t about equations. It’s about intuition.” ✏️ Sharpen your pencils and get ready for a mind-blowing new way of thinking about math: https://t.co/D9qZBktC4d
@davidbessis @econtalker
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What if math isn’t about grinding through equations, but about training your intuition and changing how your brain works? Mathematician and author David Bessis tells EconTalk’s Russ Roberts that the...
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My latest at @Econlib where I argue the Trump Administration's tariffs are not Smithian in nature. https://t.co/VIBnugc3pk
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Shortly after the “Liberation Day” tariffs were announced back in April, Janet Bufton wrote an excellent post about whether or not Adam Smith would approve of those so-called “reciprocal” tariffs. I...
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📘 Dive into how markets coordinate, how entrepreneurs discover opportunities, and how knowledge gets used in dynamic systems — all in Kirzner’s Market Theory and the Price System. Free e-book here ➜ https://t.co/3wzGCWQHFW
#Economics #AustrianEconomics
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The second volume in Liberty Fund’s The Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner series, Market Theory and the Price System was published in 1963 as Kirzner’s only textbook. The basic aim of Market...
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“Moral crusade meets business strategy.” Learn how straight whiskey distillers and reformers teamed up in unexpected ways in the Progressive Era. 🥃 https://t.co/uGEndjxeSl
#BootleggersAndBaptists #regulation
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In the early 20th century, America was buzzing with Progressive Era reforms aimed at taming the excesses of industrialization. One landmark was the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, hailed as a...
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💡 Why is free trade more than just cheap stuff? Discover how it powers innovation and long-term growth in this NEW piece from Arnold Kling.👉 https://t.co/6rk8bGEB1R
#economics #trade #innovation
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…for the economy to function well, you don’t just need good property rights, you also need what we could call, somewhat vaguely, “economic freedoms.” You need labor mobility; you need to get rid of...
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