June 2023 ISSUE

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John Locke: Mercantilist?

By Amy Willis

I recently had occasion to read (for the first time) John Locke's "Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money." [SC]1 Among other things, this got me thinking about the common claim that Locke was a mercantilist.2 I th...
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The Economics of Aging: Living Longer versus Living Better

By Amy Willis

The July 2021 issue of Nature Aging—one of the prestigious Nature periodicals' group—published "The Economic Value of Targeting Aging."1 It begins by asserting that changes in U.S. life expectancy and attention to "healthy aging" raise questions that biomedical scientist...
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Let Go of the Zero-Sum Fallacy and Enjoy Others’ Good Fortune

By Art Carden

People believe many myths, but I suspect few are as pernicious as the zero-sum fallacy. It sees the world as a story of an unending struggle over a fixed prize such that someone who has something only has it because someone else does not. It's an understandable thing to beli...
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Book Review

Legal Safeguards Against Omnipotent Lawmakers

By Pierre Lemieux

A Book Review of Law, Legislation, and Liberty, by Friedrich A. Hayek. Jeremy Shearmur, editor.1 Friedrich Hayek's trilogy Law, Legislation, and Liberty, published in three separate volumes in 1973, 1976, and 1979, was recently republished in a single book under the ...
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Climate Change: What is (Not) To Be Done

Reflections from Europe Apr 6 2020

Climate Change: A Tragedy of the Commons?

Reflections from Europe Mar 2 2020

Hume, Smith… and Darwin

An Economist Looks at Europe Dec 2 2019

Lord Robbins the Lion

An Economist Looks at Europe Feb 4 2019

Democracy and Its Discontents

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 5 2018

The Plight of the Central Banker

An Economist Looks at Europe Sep 3 2018

The Bother with Brexit

An Economist Looks at Europe Aug 6 2018

Commercial Reprisals Are a Mistake

An Economist Looks at Europe Jul 2 2018

Language and Liberty

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 2 2018

Karl Popper Vindicated

An Economist Looks at Europe Feb 5 2018

Let Me Make My Peace with Mill

An Economist Looks at Europe Jan 1 2018

King Midas in the Indies

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 6 2017

Unilateral Commercial Disarmament

An Economist Looks at Europe Oct 2 2017

Having Tea with the Queen

An Economist Looks at Europe Aug 7 2017

Brexit Poison

An Economist Looks at Europe Jul 3 2017

Thoughts for Tigers

An Economist Looks at Europe Jun 5 2017

The Fear of Robots

An Economist Looks at Europe May 1 2017

He Is No Gentleman

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 3 2017

George Bernard Shaw and Creeping Socialism

An Economist Looks at Europe Feb 6 2017

Tunnel Vision

An Economist Looks at Europe Dec 5 2016

Capitalism and Its Names

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 7 2016

The Spread of Populism in the World at the Start of the 21st Century

An Economist Looks at Europe Oct 3 2016

Brexit!

An Economist Looks at Europe Sep 5 2016

The Rebirth of Classical Political Economy

An Economist Looks at Europe Jul 4 2016

Continual Erosion and the "General Equilibrium"

An Economist Looks at Europe May 2 2016

The Erosion of Political Economy and the Retreat from Freedom

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 4 2016

Karl Marx, the Perennial Prophet

An Economist Looks at Europe Mar 7 2016

A Flood of Immigrants

An Economist Looks at Europe Jan 4 2016

The Poverty of Social Choice

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 2 2015

Would a Return to Conscription Substantially Reduce the Probability of War?

An Economist Looks at Europe Oct 5 2015

Keynes as Lucifer

An Economist Looks at Europe Sep 7 2015

Lady Chatterley's Lover or the Poverty of Social Choice

An Economist Looks at Europe Jul 6 2015

Jeremy Bentham's Mistaken Universalism

An Economist Looks at Europe Jun 1 2015

Sound Money through Monetary Competition

An Economist Looks at Europe May 4 2015

Housing Bubbles... and the Laboratory

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 6 2015

Greece and the Euro, All Over Again

An Economist Looks at Europe Feb 2 2015

Don't Cry for Me Argentina

An Economist Looks at Europe Jan 5 2015

The Revival of Nationalism

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 3 2014

From the Edge of China

An Economist Looks at Europe Oct 6 2014

Europe in Disarray

An Economist Looks at Europe Sep 1 2014

The Conundrum of Crowned Democracies

An Economist Looks at Europe Aug 4 2014

Piketty Fever

An Economist Looks at Europe Jun 5 2014

Ideas Matter

An Economist Looks at Europe May 5 2014

Poverty and Inequality

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 7 2014

The Scandal of Machiavelli or The Iron Law of Politics

An Economist Looks at Europe Feb 3 2014

The Paradox of Money

An Economist Looks at Europe Jan 6 2014

The Dangers of Majoritarian Democracy

An Economist Looks at Europe Dec 5 2013

Overcoming the Contradictions of Liberal Democracy: Sociobiology and Social Engineering

An Economist Looks at Europe Nov 4 2013

Ronald Coase, the Unexpected Economist

An Economist Looks at Europe Oct 7 2013

The Riddle of Schumpeter

An Economist Looks at Europe Sep 13 2013

In Praise of Neo-liberalism

An Economist Looks at Europe Aug 5 2013

Does Too Much Debt Really Matter?

An Economist Looks at Europe Jul 1 2013

Education Vouchers

An Economist Looks at Europe Jun 3 2013

Gold Is Money, in Spite of Mr. Keynes

An Economist Looks at Europe May 6 2013

The European Central Bank Changes Its Spots

An Economist Looks at Europe Apr 1 2013

Free Trade? Anything But...

An Economist Looks at Europe Mar 4 2013