Tuesday’s election dealt a fatal blow to the notion that Democrats need to embrace growth to win elections.
Death of the Abundance Agenda?
Death of the Abundance Agenda?
14 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, transport economics, urban economics
The Economics of Rent Controls
14 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of regulation, George Stigler, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, regulation, rentseeking Tags: rent control
I appear on Ryan Bourne’s excellent new podcast, The Economics of It. We discuss The Economics of Rent Controls drawing on my essay, Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap. It’s a very good discussion. Here’s one bit (edited slightly to remove some ums for reading and to fix a date I got wrong from memory): RB:…
The Economics of Rent Controls
Rent Control Ballot Initiatives Won Almost Everywhere
13 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, regulation, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: rent control
In California, New Jersey, Maine, and Minnesota, voters opted to cap rents and impose more restrictions on landlords.
Rent Control Ballot Initiatives Won Almost Everywhere
The Peaceful Second Amendment Revolution
11 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: gun control
How the right was restored from its nadir half a century ago
The Peaceful Second Amendment Revolution
Javier Milei’s Free-Market Policies Are Delivering Real Social Justice
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economics of regulation, economics of religion, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Argentina
Earlier this year, I wrote about Javier Milei’ pro-market reforms leading to a reduction in poverty. The indigence rate also has declined. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the numbers for poverty and indigence rose in the first half of this year, but both numbers are still well below where they were […]
Javier Milei’s Free-Market Policies Are Delivering Real Social Justice
Labor Unions Won Big on Election Day, With Ballot Initiatives and Friendly Politicians
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, property rights, unions
From the East Coast to the Midwest to the West, unions are celebrating.
Labor Unions Won Big on Election Day, With Ballot Initiatives and Friendly Politicians
A New Theory of the Just Price
09 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, market efficiency, Rawls and Nozick
I’ve got a new paper out at Economics & Philosophy, titled “The Just Price: A Market-Process Account” (open access). Here’s the main idea. 701 more words
A New Theory of the Just Price
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
08 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics
Is Net Zero increasingly coming down to earth? Little by little, the driving force behind Government policies seems to be throttling back. The post Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
@GeorgeSelgin on the History of Banking Crises | Macro …
07 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
How to Profit From a Cartel Without Joining One
27 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: competition law
Adam Smith warned that people in the same trade rarely meet without the conversation turning to a scheme to raise prices. Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic now suspect they can skip the meeting—a shared shareholder may do the job. In May 2025, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…
How to Profit From a Cartel Without Joining One
‘Contemporary Law and Economics,’ by Adam Chilton, Joshua C. Macey & Mila Versteeg
24 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase
What does it mean to be a law & economics (L&E) scholar? It can’t require a Ph.D. in economics. Richard Posner doesn’t have one. He didn’t even major in economics as an undergraduate, preferring English—as did his Chicago colleagues Douglas Baird and Diane Wood. It can’t require a law degree, either, or Ronald Coase, William…
‘Contemporary Law and Economics,’ by Adam Chilton, Joshua C. Macey & Mila Versteeg
Are Banking Systems Inherently Unstable? | @GeorgeSelgin | Hayek Program…
22 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: monetary policy
The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
19 Oct 2026 1 Comment
in politics - USA, law and economics, Public Choice, economics of regulation, public economics, property rights, economics of bureaucracy Tags: tragedy of the commons
The US federal government owns and administers 472,892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower 48 states, the country’s largest landowner. The resource is held and managed as a collective resource, the Federal Lands, through political and bureaucratic interpretation of the Multiple Use principle and generally, the biological aim of maximum sustained-yield.…
The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective
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