Great economic researcher and great communicator of that research ..read more

From my own (along with Chris Coyne and Peter Leeson) presentation of the contra-whig positions see our paper published in the .  I cannot recommend this lecture highly enough.  Rothbard was a major influence on me when I started studying economics, and various aspects of his way of viewing things has continued to shape me ever since.  Obviously, I also have some serious disagreements of style and substance.  But listen to this lecture transplanted me back in time, though I was not there for this, I heard a series of similar lectures in DC in I believe in 1985 (with Steve H ..read more

Given the events as they have unfolded since, and still unfolding, Alex's words are more important than ever.  Listen to what he has to say, and most importantly READ ..read more

I somehow missed this when first .  But this is very much worth reading, as is most everything Tim discusses either here or at the JEP ..read more

I attended grad school from 1984-88, and one thing about GMU I so fondly remember was the spirit among my fellow students at CSMP.  Two of the more advanced students Roy Cordato and Karen Palesek were mentors to those of us coming up behind them.   Wonderful people, inspiring and dedicated teachers and exemplary scholars.  They were also highly trained and skilled musicians before becoming economists.  That unique skill set let Roy in a moment of inspired joy to create the first Austrian ..read more

Teams of researchers would do well to be in the field engaged in ethnographic study of the impact on communities when commercial spaces and work disappears due to economic disruptions, we will learn a lot if we are willing to take notice, ask the right questions, and LISTEN. was little more than a mid-20th century restatement of this Smithian point about the division of labor, division of knowledge, and complexity of the exchange relationships in anonymity. None of us  thesis of Smith and others, than one gets from Smith interpreted through the lens of neoclassical economics and perhaps e ..read more

So if GMU -- Masonomics -- has done anything consistently over its history -- from the early 1980s when its PhD program was formed to the most recent graduating class, it has tried to be a place that cultivates the talents of the natural economist through proper training so they they as ordinary individuals with the aid of economic science can too rise to the heights of an observational genius. And in so doing, make sense of the senseless that we see everyday out our windows, on our computers and TV screens, or read in the news or on our cellphones with Twitter and other social media.  Th ..read more

I will write more about Steve in the days to come, but for now, watch this interview  and listen to his lecture.  He truly was not just a teacher, but a GREAT teacher.   , his temperament, and his interest in reaching out to the left -- that I cannot be objective about him and his work."   Don was a teacher, he taught us to be teachers . It was not a derogatory term in our universe, never was.  Lavoie students are teacher/scholars.  In fact, we were taught we had a moral obligation to be dedicated and effective teachers.  Steve exemplified that. Always curiou ..read more

I hope you find the discussion worth listening.  My colleague Larry White does the podcast the following week on the future of Money ..read more

This week the Institut Ostrom Catalunya hosted an online conference to honor Lin Ostrom and the Bloomington School, in which I participated in a dialogue with Deirdre McCloskey. I greatly enjoy these opportunities to discuss ideas and explore the foundations of social science and a democratic self-governing society ..read more