March 2023 ISSUE

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From Here to Serenity: How Public Choice Makes Me Less Cynical

By Art Carden

After James M. Buchanan won the Nobel Prize, some people suggested public choice was too obvious for a Nobel. To others, it was wrong. Some said it was both. Others claimed that public choice is immoral: after all, Buchanan wrote from the "homely observation" that people r...
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Behavioral Economics: Method, Norms, and Policy

By Amy Willis

In the neoclassical economic model, agents are assumed to act in pursuit of maximum utility—to know their preferences and some of the constraints they face—and to effectively satisfy their economic needs by means of market exchanges. In contrast, behavioral economists ...
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What Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Teach You About the Economics of Property Rights

By Amy Willis

"Liberty and responsibility," according to F. A. Hayek in The Constitution of Liberty, "are inseparable. A free society will not function or maintain itself unless its members regard it as right that each individual occupy the position that results from his action and accept...
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Book Review

Persistent Differences in Gender Temperament

By Arnold Kling

If I have to, I can do anything I am strong I am invincible I am woman —Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman" Helen Reddy's 1971 anthem captured the spirit of feminism in that era. The mood was optimistic, proud, and spirited. "Nothing can stop me," the song seemed to say....
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Arnold Kling

Persistent Differences in Gender Temperament

Book Review Feb 6 2023

Rejecting the Culture Transplant

Kling's Corner Jan 2 2023

The Boys Under the Bus

Kling's Corner Dec 5 2022

A Memoir and a Manifesto

Kling's Corner Nov 7 2022

A Keynesian's Macroeconomic History

Book Review Oct 3 2022

When Cost-Benefit Analysis Fails

Book Review Sep 5 2022

Balaji-land: Getting From Here to There

Book Review Aug 1 2022

Economic Thought Experiments

Kling's Corner Jul 4 2022

The World's Got Talent

Kling's Corner Jun 6 2022

A Fictional Progressive Gets Mugged

Kling's Corner May 2 2022

Emotions in the Driver's Seat

Kling's Corner Apr 4 2022

Can We Pick Better Leaders?

Kling's Corner Mar 7 2022

Sociological Man

Kling's Corner Feb 7 2022

Jonathan Rauch and the Knowledge Problem

Book Review Jan 3 2022

When the Elite Become the Elect

Book Review Dec 6 2021

If I Were a Market Monetarist

Book Review Nov 1 2021

Sermons from Evolutionary Biologists

Book Review Nov 1 2021

Two Theories of Mind

Book Review Oct 3 2021

The Role of "We" Versus the Role of "I"

Book Review Sep 6 2021

Should Humans Be More Like Machines?

Book Review Aug 2 2021

How Economics Drives News Media

Book Review Jul 5 2021

Drop Your Intellectual Defenses

Book Review Jun 7 2021

Black Power Gained, Black Agency Sacrificed

Book Review May 3 2021

Grandmasters of Self-Promotion

Book Review Apr 5 2021

Accidents, Increments, and Scientific Progress

Book Review Mar 1 2021

Agreeing to Disagree

Book Review Feb 1 2021

How to Break Up the Two-Party Duopoly

Book Review Jan 4 2021

Does Libertarianism Favor Labor?

Book Review Dec 7 2020

A WEIRD Turn in Social Science

Book Review Nov 2 2020

Liberalism and Its Enemies: Pluckrose and Lindsay

Book Review Oct 5 2020

Liberty's Discontents

Book Review Sep 7 2020

Twilight of the Bourgeoisie

Book Review Aug 3 2020

Appealing to Empathy to Overcome Polarization

Book Review Jul 6 2020

Intellectuals Caught in the Middle

Book Review Jun 1 2020

Order and the Wealth of Nations

Book Review May 4 2020

Fixed Personality Traits, Randomly Arrived At

Book Review Apr 6 2020

The Sexual Revolution as Primal Cause

Book Review Mar 2 2020

He Tells Us It's the Institutions

Book Review Feb 3 2020

Wall Street Mysteries

Kling's Corner Jan 6 2020

The No-Demand Principle and Libertarianism

Book Review Dec 2 2019

How Democratic Capitalism Works

Book Review Nov 4 2019

Wrangling Radicals: Intersectionality and Campus Culture

Book Review Oct 7 2019

Encourage Dissent

Book Review Sep 2 2019

George Will on the Fundamentals of Conservative Thought

Kling's Corner Aug 5 2019

Economic Aspects of Trust

Kling's Corner Jul 1 2019

Culture, Institutions, and Folkways

Kling's Corner Jun 3 2019

The Virtues of Big Business in America

Kling's Corner May 6 2019

Contemporary Society's Crumbling Pillar

Kling's Corner Apr 1 2019

Minerva: An Experiment in Centrally Planned Education

Kling's Corner Mar 4 2019

DNA Determinism

Kling's Corner Feb 4 2019

Politics, Economics, and Evolution

Kling's Corner Jan 7 2019

Markets without Friction

Kling's Corner Dec 3 2018

Re-Imagining the Economist's Role in Policy

Kling's Corner Nov 5 2018

Predictable Irrationality and the Crisis of 2008

Kling's Corner Oct 1 2018

The Prophet of Google's Doom

Kling's Corner Sep 3 2018

Tribal Psychology and Political Behavior

Kling's Corner Aug 6 2018

Get the Story Straight

Kling's Corner Jul 2 2018

Does Liberalism Destroy Liberty?

Kling's Corner Jun 4 2018

Playing the Game of Life to Avoid Losing

Kling's Corner May 7 2018

What Makes Capitalism Tick?

Liberty Classics Apr 2 2018

Networks, Hierarchies, and History

Kling's Corner Mar 5 2018

How Albion Seeded American Liberty

Kling's Corner Feb 5 2018

Economics when Value Is Intangible

Kling's Corner Jan 1 2018

The Simplicity Assumption

Kling's Corner Dec 4 2017

Law, Legislation, and Leoni

Kling's Corner Nov 6 2017

The Sociology of Sociologists

Kling's Corner Oct 2 2017

Bobos' Paradise Lost?

Kling's Corner Sep 4 2017

Lessons from The Best and the Brightest

Kling's Corner Aug 7 2017

The Practitioner's Challenge

Kling's Corner Jul 3 2017

The Social Learning Animal

Kling's Corner Jun 5 2017

The Pros and Cons of Liberty

Kling's Corner May 1 2017

Present at the Destruction

Kling's Corner Apr 3 2017

Complacent or Pathological?

Kling's Corner Mar 6 2017

The Tullock Problem and the Shaman Problem

Kling's Corner Feb 6 2017

Ideas and Economic Growth

Kling's Corner Jan 2 2017

What Drove Alan Greenspan?

Kling's Corner Dec 5 2016

Capitalism and Inequality

Kling's Corner Nov 7 2016

The Tensions in Austrian Economics

Kling's Corner Oct 3 2016

Communities versus the State

Kling's Corner Sep 5 2016

Does Conflict Drive Cooperation?

Kling's Corner Aug 1 2016

The Insiders versus the Outsiders

Kling's Corner Jul 4 2016

Liberalism and Its Enemies

Kling's Corner Jun 6 2016

Dismal Race "Scientists"

Kling's Corner May 2 2016

The Conservative Way Forward?

Kling's Corner Apr 4 2016

Why You Can't Argue with the New Left

Kling's Corner Mar 7 2016

The Science of Liberty

Kling's Corner Feb 1 2016

Revisiting the Great Depression

Kling's Corner Jan 4 2016

Risks, Seen and Unseen

Kling's Corner Dec 7 2015

A Wray of Light on Hyman Minsky

Kling's Corner Nov 2 2015

Phools and Their Money

Kling's Corner Oct 5 2015

The Fundamental Rule of Social Morality

Featured Article Sep 7 2015

Is Big Government an Abilene Paradox?

Kling's Corner Aug 3 2015

The Two Forms of Social Order

Kling's Corner Jul 6 2015

MIT's Model Economics Department

Kling's Corner Jun 1 2015

The Elusive Goal of Political Stability

Kling's Corner May 4 2015

The Regulator's Calculation Problem

Kling's Corner Apr 6 2015

The New Deal, the Solid South, and the Dictators

Kling's Corner Mar 2 2015

Camping-Trip Economics vs. Woolen-Coat Economics

Kling's Corner Feb 2 2015

It's Complicated

Kling's Corner Jan 5 2015

Society and Unplanned Pregnancy

Kling's Corner Dec 1 2014

Public Officials and Cameras

Kling's Corner Nov 3 2014

The Possibility of Anarchy

Kling's Corner Oct 6 2014

American Health Care as Viewed by an Entrepreneur

Featured Article Sep 1 2014

Did Racial Differences Cause Societies to Diverge?

Kling's Corner Aug 4 2014

Do We Need ESSP?

Kling's Corner Jul 7 2014

The Longitude of Well-Being

Kling's Corner Jun 2 2014

Heritability of Social Status

Kling's Corner May 5 2014

Exit, Voice, and Ignorance

Kling's Corner Apr 7 2014

Banks and Government

Kling's Corner Mar 3 2014

Can Evolutionary Psychology Explain Your Political Beliefs?

Kling's Corner Feb 3 2014

Educating Like a State

Kling's Corner Jan 6 2014

Modernism vs. Corporatism

Kling's Corner Dec 2 2013

Kenneth Minogue on The Servile Mind

Kling's Corner Nov 4 2013

Libertarians and Social Conservatives

Kling's Corner Oct 7 2013

America's Past and America's Future

Kling's Corner Sep 2 2013

Political Romance in the Internet Age

Kling's Corner Aug 5 2013

David Brin's Transparent Society Revisited

Kling's Corner Jul 1 2013

Naim's End of Power

Kling's Corner Jun 3 2013

State, Clan, and Liberty

Kling's Corner May 6 2013

Educational Freedom

Kling's Corner Apr 1 2013

The Institutions-Intensive Economy

Kling's Corner Feb 25 2013

Michael Huemer's Challenge to the Legitimacy of Government

Kling's Corner Jan 29 2013

The Questionable Uses of the Term "Probability" in Economics

Kling's Corner Dec 27 2012

Libertarian as Logician: The True Essence of Libertarianism

Kling's Corner Dec 3 2012

Subjective Value and Government Intervention

Kling's Corner Oct 24 2012

Libertarians and Group Norms

Kling's Corner Sep 19 2012

The Economics of the Wireless Last Mile

Featured Article Oct 7 2002