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In a wide-ranging and blunt conversation, Loury discusses his childhood, his at-times brilliant academic work, his roller-coaster ideological journey, and his personal flaws as a drug addict and imperfect husband. This is a rich conversation about academic life, race More Featured Articles Book Review, Kling’s Corner Individualism versus Racism Similarly, to advocate colorblindness is not to pretend you don’t notice race. To advocate colorblindness is to endorse an ethical principle: The colorblind principle: we should treat people without regard to race, both in our public policy and in our private lives. Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America1 (p. .. MORE Book Review Some Unpleasant Thoughts: Refugees and Wealth A book review of The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies by Alexander Betts (Oxford University Press, 2021)1 A key idea in Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is that people have a persistent and ever-present drive to better their own conditions”. Leave people alone, and prosperity and other improvements of life .. MORE Book Review, Kling’s Corner When Cost-Benefit Analysis Fails Whether to have a child is what I call a wild problem—a fork in the road of life where knowing which path is the right one isn’t obvious, where the pleasure and pain from choosing one path over another are ultimately hidden from us, where the path we choose defines who we are and who .. MORE Most Recent International Trade Tariffs Do Cause a Slight Temporary Increase in Inflation By David Henderson Biography, Intellectual History Glenn Loury Tells All Technology Visions of the 21st century By Scott Sumner Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings My Reading Highlights for Week of May 12 By David Henderson International Trade Biden Is Really Trump 2.0, Not Surprisingly By Pierre Lemieux Competition The DOJ-Apple Case: Harming Consumers v. Harming Competitors By Giorgio Castiglia International Trade The Ukraine War: Who should sacrifice? By Scott Sumner Incentives Disinformation Exists and Is Dangerous By Pierre Lemieux Business Economics Are Businesses Hard-Hearted? By David Henderson Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings Legislators, Technology, and Michael Crichton By Kevin Corcoran EconTalk Allecontalk-podcast Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she’d grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you’ve caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power .. MORE econtalk-extra Bring Back Shame and Blame In this episode, EconTalk host Russ Roberts welcomes back Arnold Kling to talk about two ideas we think a lot about- improving government and improving public discourse. Kling has some ideas about how to improve both, and he shares them throughout the conversation. Why has the administrative state grown so much? Kling and Roberts agree .. MORE EconLog AllPrice Controls Great Moments in Denying Reality California has some of the strictest insurance regulations in the country. It is the only state where insurers are not allowed to base their rate hikes on catastrophe models — forward-looking calculations of risk — or the rising cost of reinsurance premiums, according to both Zimmerman and the Department of Insurance. Under current regulations, insurers are only .. MORE Business Economics Are Businesses Hard-Hearted? How often have you heard a line something like the following: Because businesses care only about making money, they and their executives are hard-hearted towards their customers and employees.” Even some people who think that, on net, businesses are good for our economy, often characterize them as being hard-hearted because of their profit motive. .. MORE LIBERTY CLASSICS SERIES Explore the lasting legacies and continued relevance of our classic titles. Browse Articles Book Titles All BooksPublic Principles of Public Debt: A Defense and Restatement By James M. Buchanan Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds By Charles Mackay Charles Mackay, Scottish poet, journalist, and editor was best known in his day for his verses, some of which were set to music. His book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, was first published in 1841 (London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty), with a promise of additional material should these be .. MORE Book Reviews and Suggested Readings Put Away the Puppets By Maria Pia Paganelli A Book Review of Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy, by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman.1 Are you saving enough for retirement? How do you know? How can I tell? What if there is a benchmark against which to compare your savings? If you meet it, all is well. But what if .. MORE Lessons and Challenges in The Limits of Liberty By Pierre Lemieux James Buchanan is not easy to categorize. Is he a libertarian? A classical liberal? A conservative? Or perhaps even a liberal” in the modern American sense of progressive” or social democrat”? Is he an economist or a philosopher? It is paradoxical but not totally wrong to answer all of the above,” so complex and rich .. MORE Conversations VIDEO Profile in Liberty: Friedrich A. Hayek The twentieth century witnessed the unparalleled expansion of government power over the lives and livelihoods of individuals. Much of this was the result of two devastating world wars and totalitarian ideologies that directly challenged individual liberty and the free institutions of the open society. Other forms of expansion in the provision of social welfare and .. MORE VIDEO An Animal That Trades A five-part short video series on the life and contemporary relevance of Adam Smith. 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