TweetHere’s a letter to a listener of Russ Roberts’s wonderful podcast, EconTalk: Mr. G___: Thanks for your kind and constructive feedback on my EconTalk episode on Covid. You ask for evidence on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns. In my talk, rather than saying that there’s little evidence that lockdowns reduce the spread of Covid, I should […]Apr 16, 2009 · 7,779 Followers Replies Media Cafe Hayek @CafeHayek · Jan 17, 2012 Ancient Wisdom - Here's a letter to the New York Times: Bruce Bartlett usefully reflects on Pres. Obama's plan to me... cafehayek.com Ancient Wisdom Dec 22, 2023 ... ... Hayek, promotrice du EM Shérif Café, entend participer au rayonnement du pays à travers son enseigne. --------------- Abonnez vous à la ...Cafe Landtmann – Wien ... Als Franz Landtmann 1873 Wiens größte und eleganteste Café-Localität eröffnete, begründete er damit eine Wiener Kaffeehaus-Institution.TweetScott Sumner understandably wonders why exceedingly high rates of youth unemployment in economies with minimum-wage statutes are seldom explained as being at least in part a consequence of minimum-wage statutes, despite empirical evidence consistent with this explanation. Pres. Obama insists that raising the hourly U.S. national …Japan is known for things like sushi, Nintendo and tea ceremonies. However, it’s also renowned for its love of cats. The country not only has cat cafés, but also several islands po...Help Improve the Cafe. Contact our webmaster about errors on the site. ...4 days ago · It’s curious, isn’t it?, that among the people who roar most loudly in opposition to subsidized imports are people who proudly shout “put America first!”. You’d think that everyone who admires Donald Trump’s alleged genius at re-arranging trade so that we Americans “win” at the expense of foreigners would be delighted at the ... Apr 4, 2023 ... ... Café Künstler); it left him convinced that planners would be lost without prices signalling relative scarcities and that socialism was bound ...TweetThere’s much to like in Richard Jordan’s essay today at Law & Liberty, “Romancing Creative Destruction.” But I object to his claim that “capitalism simply cannot sustain spiritually-rich communities by itself.” My objection is not that the claim is mistaken; it’s not. This claim is correct. Indisputably so. My objection is to the supposition that […]Feb 14, 2024 · Get in Touch. by Don Boudreaux on February 14, 2024. Tweet. Here’s a letter to Yahoo!Finance: Editor: May I plead with you to improve the economic literacy of your reporting on international trade? A few days ago your reporter Enda Curran opened a story with this line: “The US goods-trade deficit with China shrank to the smallest total ... Some Links. Carl Schramm explains that industrial policy paves “a path to national shrinkage.”. Two slices: The massive federal spending supposedly justified by Covid-19 served as cover for the Biden administration to transform the American economy into something more like China’s state-managed one. Left-leaning Keynesian economists …Archives - Cafe Hayek. Complexity & Emergence. Frenetic Fiddling. Gambling with Other's $. Less Than Meets the Eye. Myths and Fallacies. Other People's Money. Reality Is Not Optional. Truth-seeking & ideology.The Sadim Touch. by Russ Roberts on October 1, 2006. Tweet. The Sadim touch is the opposite of the Midas touch. With the Midas touch, everything you touch turns to gold. With the Sadim touch, you ruin everything you touch. The government has the Sadim touch. Three articles in today’s Washington Post make this clear.Tweet. Prof. Peter Morici University of Maryland Smith School of Business College Park, MD. Dear Peter: In your guest blog-post yesterday at CNBC you argue that the destruction caused by hurricane Irene will spark a “process of economic renewal [that] can leave communities better off than before” (“Economic Impact of Hurricane Irene“). ). Central to …Aug 16, 2021 · TweetI conclude my latest column for AIER with a heartfelt appreciation for the opportunity – one that I’ve enjoyed now for decades – to teach Principles of Microeconomics. A slice: My goal in teaching Principles of Microeconomics is not to launch my students on a path to earn graduate degrees in the subject, or even […] 4 days ago · It’s curious, isn’t it?, that among the people who roar most loudly in opposition to subsidized imports are people who proudly shout “put America first!”. You’d think that everyone who admires Donald Trump’s alleged genius at re-arranging trade so that we Americans “win” at the expense of foreigners would be delighted at the ... When it comes to designing a commercial cafe, one of the most important aspects to consider is the furniture. The right furniture can create a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere ...Nov 2, 2022 · TweetRuss Roberts talks with Mike Munger about industrial policy. Here’s a slice, from the transcript, of Munger’s remarks: Look, elected officials have a two-year time horizon until the next election. And that’s in November. So, in December they have a 23-month time horizon. So, politics has a really, really short time horizon, and that’s why […] When protectionists such as Oren Cass insist that international mobility of capital renders free trade dangerous for America, their specific concern is that capital flees from high-wage America to lower-wage foreign countries. Yet these protectionists also incessantly complain about America’s ongoing trade deficits, apparently unaware that ...TweetDr. Peter Navarro University of California – Irvine Dr. Navarro: You write in your document “Scoring the Trump Plan” that “[a]ccording to textbook theory, balanced trade among nations should be the long-term norm, and the chronic and massive trade deficits the US has sustained for over a decade simply should not exist.” This claim …The percentage of people living in poverty fell from 32% in 1947 to 15% in 1967 to only 1.1% in 2017. Opportunities created by economic growth, and government-sponsored social programs funded by that growth, produced broadly shared prosperity: 94% of households in 2017 would have been at least as well off as the top quintile in 1967.TweetHere’s a letter to a listener of Russ Roberts’s wonderful podcast, EconTalk: Mr. G___: Thanks for your kind and constructive feedback on my EconTalk episode on Covid. You ask for evidence on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns. In my talk, rather than saying that there’s little evidence that lockdowns reduce the spread of Covid, I should […]Trade truly is a marvelous technology! If trade were an actual, physical machine it would be hailed as one of the greatest inventions of all time. And so when government restricts your ability to transform what you produce into outputs produced by foreigners, government artificially restricts the operation of this technology.Jan 30, 2024 · Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 30, 2024. Tweet. … is from pages 26-27 of Robert Higgs’s 1991 paper “ Eighteen Problematic Propositions in the Analysis of the Growth of Government ,” as this paper is reprinted in Higgs’s 2007 book, Neither Liberty Nor Safety (references deleted): Government employees or dollars ... TweetHere’s a letter to a listener of Russ Roberts’s wonderful podcast, EconTalk: Mr. G___: Thanks for your kind and constructive feedback on my EconTalk episode on Covid. You ask for evidence on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns. In my talk, rather than saying that there’s little evidence that lockdowns reduce the spread of Covid, I should […]Are you new to the matcha green tea craze or looking to boost your matcha knowledge and options? Matcha powders and tea kits are popping up everywhere in cafes and coffee shops nea...The Best Protective Tariff Rate Is Zero (But Perhaps Not So for Revenue Tariffs) by Don Boudreaux on January 26, 2024.Russell David " Russ " Roberts (born September 19, 1954) is an American-Israeli [3] economist. He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem. [4] [5] [6] He is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms [7] as host of the EconTalk podcast. May 12, 2011 ... ... Hayek [il coanime le blog libertarien Cafe Hayek, et le clip penche plutôt en faveur de ses idées]. Mais il souhaitait que Keynes ait tout ...Mar 15, 2023 · Help Improve the Cafe. Contact our webmaster about errors on the site. ... Nov 24, 2023 · Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on November 24, 2023. Tweet. … is from page 5 of the 2015 Fourth Edition of Douglas A. Irwin’s important book, Free Trade Under Fire: In fact, the economic case for free trade is based not on faith but on logic and evidence. DBx: Yes. Jan 6, 2020 ... Hayek's “Curious Task”. For more on teaching economics, see “Economics ... He blogs at Café Hayek (www.cafehayek.com). For more articles by ...Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 8, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 262 of the 1975 HarperPerennial printing of the third (1950) edition of Joseph Schumpeter ’s profound 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: All of this goes to show that without the initiative that comes from immediate responsibility, ignorance ...Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on January 24, 2024. Tweet. At Law & Liberty, Phil Magness today exposes several of the many misunderstandings that infect Oren Cass’s January 2nd essay at that site. Four slices: Cass begins his historical account with a novel claim. “For more than a century after Ricardo introduced the concept of …Are you new to the matcha green tea craze or looking to boost your matcha knowledge and options? Matcha powders and tea kits are popping up everywhere in cafes and coffee shops nea...TweetHere’s a follow-up note to a commenter at EconLog. Steve: There are two different avenues down which we can and should travel to assess whether or not the Focused Protection advocated in the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) is more practical than is the alternative – namely, lockdowns – against which the authors of that …Apparently It’s Collectivism Only If It Is Pursued as a Means of Privation. by Don Boudreaux on November 25, 2010. Tweet. Liberal Curmudgeon blogger Stephen Budiansky ridicules Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others for describing early Plymouth colony as a failed experiment in collectivism . (HT Tom Elia) The thrust of Budiansky’s …DBx: Proponents of industrial policy arrogantly suppose that they, or government officials, can and will divine the correct answers to these questions if only given the power to obstruct ordinary people’s consumption and investment decisions. Details of this supposed process of divination are, of course, never revealed.TweetNo politely sized blog post is large enough to contain even a tenth of all that that there is to say about cost-benefit analysis. So in this post – which I’ll keep polite – I’ll make only one point. (Well, I’ll make one point plus a preface.) I preface my point by saying that I’m […]Sep 12, 2023 · TweetThe Cato Institute today begins the release of a series of papers in its new and important project “Defending Globalization.” I’m pleased to have contributed the first of these papers; it’s titled “Comparative Advantage.” A slice: The scholar, financier, and statesman David Ricardo (1772–1823) is credited with first clearly identifying comparative advantage. He did so […] Jan 22, 2024 · Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on January 22, 2024. Tweet. Thomas Lambert and Tate Cooper methodically expose the errors, illogic, and arrogance of the neo-Brandeisians. Two slices: Two of Neo-Brandeisianism’s reform proposals are unique to the movement and follow from its distinctive criticism of the prevailing antitrust regime. Nov 11, 2009 · A Reflection on Insider Trading and Confidence in Markets. by Don Boudreaux on November 11, 2009. Tweet. Here’s a thoughtful piece on the merits and demerits of criminalizing insider trading. Among the most common arguments made today in favor of the criminalization of insider trading (as opposed to letting corporations, in competition for ... Jan 21, 2024 · Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in Gorki, Russia (now called Nizhny Novgorod), after repeated strokes. His legacy is a world whose moral equilibrium he helped to destroy. The Soviet Union was based on Marxism, a secular religion, and Lenin was ... Jul 29, 2009 · Archives - Cafe Hayek. Complexity & Emergence. Frenetic Fiddling. Gambling with Other's $. Less Than Meets the Eye. Myths and Fallacies. Other People's Money. Reality Is Not Optional. Truth-seeking & ideology. The problem that you fret about doesn’t arise. I close by expressing agreement with Adam Smith when he wrote that “nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade.”. Economic policy would today be far better had this foolish mercantilist notion been completely discarded in the 18 th century and ever ...TweetRecently I read Ron Chernow’s Titan, his 1998 biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Not surprisingly, the economics that Chernow uses to analyze Standard Oil’s business practices is unsophisticated and uninformed. (For example, John McGee’s classic 1958 and 1980 papers on Standard Oil and predatory pricing […]For coffee lovers, there’s nothing quite like the taste and aroma of a freshly brewed cup of joe. But with our fast-paced lives, finding the time to go to a café and wait in line f...Jan 28, 2013 · TweetIn the latest EconTalk, Pete Boettke makes the case (based on his book, Living Economics) for what he calls mainline economics–the tradition going back to Adam Smith via Hayek and others, with a strong emphasis on spontaneous order. He also has a very nice tribute to Jim Buchanan–we recorded this just after Buchanan passed away. […] The problem that you fret about doesn’t arise. I close by expressing agreement with Adam Smith when he wrote that “nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade.”. Economic policy would today be far better had this foolish mercantilist notion been completely discarded in the 18 th century and ever ...Bonus Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on February 8, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 68 of the 1983 Transaction Publishers edition of Redvers Opie’s 1934 translation of Joseph Schumpeter’s 1912 book, The Theory of Economic Development: The slow and continuous increase in time of the national supply of productive means and of …by Don Boudreaux on January 12, 2024. Tweet. Several weeks ago I spoke with Drew Benson about international trade and protectionism. I very much enjoyed our conversation. Next post: A Modern Economy, As Such, Cannot Owe or Be Owed Anything.Who doesn’t want to pretend they’re a Starbucks barista in the comfort of their home kitchen? Well, with the help of a few handy gadgets, like the Zabba Cafe Casa electric milk fro...Tweet. After reading yesterday’s Cafe Hayek post on the balance of payments, Duke University emeritus economist Ed Tower sent to me the following e-mail, which I share in full with Ed’s kind permission:. My PhD advisors, Gottfried Haberler and Tom Willett in their writing advocated a policy of “benign neglect” to the exchange rate …TweetIn my latest column for AIER, I share a few letters that I’ve sent over the years to students and high-school teachers. A slice: Next is a 2019 letter to a high-school student in California who applied to George Mason University: Ms. S: Thanks for your e-mail. I’m honored that you read Café Hayek, and […]Aug 16, 2021 · TweetI conclude my latest column for AIER with a heartfelt appreciation for the opportunity – one that I’ve enjoyed now for decades – to teach Principles of Microeconomics. A slice: My goal in teaching Principles of Microeconomics is not to launch my students on a path to earn graduate degrees in the subject, or even […] May 12, 2011 ... ... Hayek [il coanime le blog libertarien Cafe Hayek, et le clip penche plutôt en faveur de ses idées]. Mais il souhaitait que Keynes ait tout ...TweetRuss Roberts talks with Mike Munger about industrial policy. Here’s a slice, from the transcript, of Munger’s remarks: Look, elected officials have a two-year time horizon until the next election. And that’s in November. So, in December they have a 23-month time horizon. So, politics has a really, really short time horizon, and that’s why […]Starbucks coffee stores and stands, as with many other coffee shops, offer a “cafe breve” version of the company’s lattes, in which half-and-half or light cream is substituted for ...Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 27, 2024. Tweet. … is from Javier Milei’s speech earlier this month at the World Economic Forum at Davos: Therefore since there is no doubt that free enterprise capitalism is superior in productive terms, the left-wing doxa has attacked capitalism, alleging matters of morality, saying ...Tweet. Prof. Peter Morici University of Maryland Smith School of Business College Park, MD. Dear Peter: In your guest blog-post yesterday at CNBC you argue that the destruction caused by hurricane Irene will spark a “process of economic renewal [that] can leave communities better off than before” (“Economic Impact of Hurricane Irene“). ). Central to …Tweet. Here’s a letter to Cafe Hayek commenter C___ W____: Commenting on this blog post you repeat the canard that Americans benefit from Uncle Sam following a policy of free trade only if other governments follow a similar policy. Specifically, you allege that Americans are “screwed” when other governments don’t practice free trade.Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on November 24, 2023. Tweet. … is from page 5 of the 2015 Fourth Edition of Douglas A. Irwin’s important book, Free Trade Under Fire: In fact, the economic case for free trade is based not on faith but on logic and evidence. DBx: Yes.Cafe Hayek 5.5K likes • 5.5K followers Posts About Photos Videos More Posts About Photos Videos Intro cafehayek.com/hayek Cafe Hayek. 5,529 likes. Education websiteThe statistics, compiled by SNL Financial from U.S. Treasury data, showed 91 banks and thrifts skipped the May dividend payment under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. It was the first missed payment for 23 of the banks; for the others, it was at least their second miss. The number of banks missing their TARP payments rose for …3 days ago · TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent: Mr. S__: Thanks for your e-mail expressing disagreement with my recent blog post on why we Americans should welcome EVs and other valuable goods subsidized by foreign governments. You write that “when we import subsidized electric vehicles we shrink America’s capacity to produce these.” It’s true that importing […] by Don Boudreaux on August 28, 2020. Tweet. Santa Clara University political scientist Peter Minowitz wrote a penetrating review essay of Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be an Antiracist, and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. I might, if pressed, pick a tiny nit or two with this essay, but ...Bonus Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on May 6, 2022. Tweet. … is from page 98 of the late Stanford University economic historian Nathan Rosenberg’s insightful 1992 paper “ Economic Experiments ,” as this paper is reprinted in Rosenberg’s 1994 book, Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History (original ...Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on February 15, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 472 of Robert Higgs’s Winter 2013 Independent Review essay “ Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policy Making “: Too few of us understand, however, that the free market itself is a grand generator of truth, and that, in general ...How long does a similar worker today have to work to buy similar items? (Note that that worker in 1975 earned, in 1975 dollars, $4.87 per hour. A similar worker today earns, in 2012 dollars, $19.84 per hour.) – Manual treadmill: 1975 price was $89.99 (or 18.5 hours of work in 1975); 2013 price is $127.99 (or 6.5 hours of work today)It is possible to find a “today is your birthday horoscope” at sites such as Cafe Astrology and Free-Horoscope-Today. Most sites that offer this service, including Cafe Astrology, ...Tweet. Here’s a letter to BBC News:. Editor: You report that the British government “is discussing plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living” (“Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food,” May 28).This scheme – which will only make matters worse by causing shortages …Tweet. Here’s a letter to Cafe Hayek commenter C___ W____: Commenting on this blog post you repeat the canard that Americans benefit from Uncle Sam following a policy of free trade only if other governments follow a similar policy. Specifically, you allege that Americans are “screwed” when other governments don’t practice free trade.Jan 30, 2024 · Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 30, 2024. Tweet. … is from pages 26-27 of Robert Higgs’s 1991 paper “ Eighteen Problematic Propositions in the Analysis of the Growth of Government ,” as this paper is reprinted in Higgs’s 2007 book, Neither Liberty Nor Safety (references deleted): Government employees or dollars ... New York Times Reports Evidence Against Monopsony Power. by Don Boudreaux on February 16, 2014. Tweet. Here’s a letter to the New York Times: You report that higher minimum-wage rates in Oregon, Washington State, and Nevada prompt many Idahoans to quit jobs in their home state in order to take higher-wage jobs in these …Whether you run a large restaurant or a small cafe, a grease trap is definitely on the menu for keeping that damaging grease out of your wastewater system. Check out this guide to ...TweetThe blog post by Bivens reads like something written by a clever sophomore who’s too lazy to do real thinking; it’s filled with many errors in addition to the one mentioned below. Mr. K__: Thanks for sharing with me Josh Bivens’s blog post in which he blames inflation on high corporate profits. Unlike you, however, […]TweetI’d like to interview Bill Bryson for EconTalk. Does anyone know how to reach him? Please send me an email russroberts at gmail dot com. Share Tweet Share Email PrintCommentsVinay Prasad on Covid Measures. by Don Boudreaux on February 10, 2024. Tweet. In this lecture, Vinay Prasad, M.D., discusses today’s sorry state of medical ethics; the second half is about covid. (HT Jay Bhattacharya)Archives - Cafe Hayek. Complexity & Emergence. Frenetic Fiddling. Gambling with Other's $. Less Than Meets the Eye. Myths and Fallacies. Other People's Money. Reality Is Not Optional. Truth-seeking & ideology.Henry Manne on Insider Trading. by Don Boudreaux on April 28, 2014. Tweet. The great Henry Manne – dean emeritus of George Mason University’s School of Law and pioneering scholar in law and economics – helps expose, in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, the folly of the prohibition of insider trading. A slice:Cafe Hayek. where orders emerge. More on the Ill-Logic of Mercantilism. by Don Boudreaux on January 11, 2018. in Balance of Payments, Myths and Fallacies, Trade. Tweet. A common, and correct, observation among economists is that mercantilists mistake money for wealth. Mercantilists literally believe (even when they deny the belief) that money ...Tweet. Here’s a letter to BBC News:. Editor: You report that the British government “is discussing plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living” (“Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food,” May 28).This scheme – which will only make matters worse by causing shortages …The percentage of people living in poverty fell from 32% in 1947 to 15% in 1967 to only 1.1% in 2017. Opportunities created by economic growth, and government-sponsored social programs funded by that growth, produced broadly shared prosperity: 94% of households in 2017 would have been at least as well off as the top quintile in 1967.3 days ago · Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on February 19, 2024. Tweet. Last month, Michael Strain defended people who earn billions of dollars in markets. Two slices: Unsurprisingly, the economic populists and nationalists on the political right find themselves in agreement with the progressive left. A few months ago, Steve Bannon, former US President ... Aug 25, 2023 ... « Qui aime le café ? » a écrit l'acteur de Frida dans la légende, répétant la question en espagnol. Salma Hayek n'a jamais eu peur d ...Oct 31, 2023 · Lockdowns Were Anything But “Prudent and Essential”. by Don Boudreaux on October 31, 2023. As of 2014, the main difference between the GE Cafe and GE Profile series is the style of the appliances. 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Get in Touch. by Don Boudreaux on February 14, 2024. Tweet. Here’s a letter to Yahoo!Finance: Editor: May I plead with you to improve the economic literacy of your reporting on international trade? A few days ago your reporter Enda Curran opened a story with this line: “The US goods-trade deficit with China shrank to the smallest total ...Cafe Hayek. where orders emerge. Trade and Unemployment in a Country. by Don Boudreaux on October 9, 2016. in Myths and Fallacies, Trade, Work. Tweet. Several people recently have asked why economists argue that protectionist policies do not lead to greater unemployment over the long-run in countries whose governments impose such policies. I ...Jan 2, 2024 · Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on January 2, 2024. Tweet. The Wall Street Journal ‘s Editorial Board wisely rejects Donald Trump’s and Robert Lighthizer’s case for protectionism. A slice: This reveals what tariffs often do in real life, which is to rob some anonymous Peter to pay some politically powerful Paul. Jan 29, 2024 · A blog by economist Don Boudreaux that covers topics such as markets, politics, culture, and history. The latest posts include quotations, links, and commentary on topics such as protectionism, inheritance tax, and endangered species. The blog is named after Hayek's concept of spontaneous order. TweetIt’s well-known among people who bother to learn the facts that U.S. manufacturing output continues to rise despite the reality that the number of Americans employed in jobs classified as being in the manufacturing sector peaked in June 1979 and has fallen, with very few interruptions, ever since. Nevertheless, some people – for …Aug 29, 2023 · TweetMy former Mercatus Center colleague Susan Dudley, writing with Kip Viscusi in the Wall Street Journal, warns of Biden & Co.’s politicization of benefit-cost analyses of government regulations. Two slices: President Biden recently promised to “modernize” regulatory review, and that includes a major overhaul of how agencies measure the benefits and costs of their proposed […] TweetIn my latest column for AIER I distinguish capitalism being impersonal from capitalism being ‘soulless.’ Two slices: There’s a lot to like in Richard Jordan’s recent essay at Law & Liberty, “Romancing Creative Destruction.” But it’s also infected with a notable flaw, namely, Jordan’s claim, complete with added emphasis, “capitalism is …TweetScott Sumner understandably wonders why exceedingly high rates of youth unemployment in economies with minimum-wage statutes are seldom explained as being at least in part a consequence of minimum-wage statutes, despite empirical evidence consistent with this explanation. Pres. Obama insists that raising the hourly U.S. national …DBx: Proponents of industrial policy arrogantly suppose that they, or government officials, can and will divine the correct answers to these questions if only given the power to obstruct ordinary people’s consumption and investment decisions. Details of this supposed process of divination are, of course, never revealed.Jan 29, 2024 · A blog by economist Don Boudreaux that covers topics such as markets, politics, culture, and history. The latest posts include quotations, links, and commentary on topics such as protectionism, inheritance tax, and endangered species. The blog is named after Hayek's concept of spontaneous order. This morning, Deirdre sent to me some of her related thoughts on Oxfam’s mismeasure of the ‘distribution’ of incomes worldwide. I share Deirdre’s thoughts with you just below, with her kind permission: Such was the zero-sum rhetoric of the Democrats in the U.S. in their 2014 congressional campaigns and of the Oxfam report early in 2014 ...What Might Have Been. by Don Boudreaux on December 3, 2023. Tweet. In my latest column for AIER I ponder lost possibilities. Two slices: Many people understandably wonder what spectacular music humanity was denied by the premature death of Mozart at the age of 35.Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 15, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 139 of the 2015 Fourth Edition of Dartmouth economist Douglas Irwin’s superb book Free Trade Under Fire: And here, a very basic point must be stressed: the perception that imports destroy good, high-wage jobs in manufacturing is almost completely erroneous.Are you new to the matcha green tea craze or looking to boost your matcha knowledge and options? Matcha powders and tea kits are popping up everywhere in cafes and coffee shops nea...My father dropped out of school in the 6th grade, although in his mid-30s he earned his GED. The GED, alas, didn’t change his career path. He worked for most of his adult life in a shipyard, first as a pipe fitter, then toward the end of his working days as a crane operator. At the end of my first, less-than-successful semester of college ...Aug 30, 2013 ... There is a lovely reflection on this from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek: Ponder this astonishing fact: Each and every thing that we consume ...Jan 2, 2024 · Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on January 2, 2024. Tweet. The Wall Street Journal ‘s Editorial Board wisely rejects Donald Trump’s and Robert Lighthizer’s case for protectionism. A slice: This reveals what tariffs often do in real life, which is to rob some anonymous Peter to pay some politically powerful Paul. Tweet. David Warsh says Hayek wasn’t much of a macroeconomist. Krugman piles on. Tabarrok answers.Boettke responds here.. My take is that there are two parts to Hayek’s career as a macroeconomist. In the first part, which runs till roughly 1941, Hayek is a business cycle theorist who was on to something–the role of the manipulation and …Feb 12, 2024 · Help Improve the Cafe. Contact our webmaster about errors on the site. ... TweetIronically, one of the ads this morning at Cafe Hayek was a criticism of Apple for not creating more jobs in America. I clicked on the ad and found what is shown here in this screenshot. This ad inadvertently reveals a major difference between those who understand economics and those who don’t. Those of us […]In a free society, characterized by individual liberty, each one pursues his own goals (his “ends” in the terms of Friedrich Hayek ). Each one is free to pursue his own happiness. That the collectivist ideology espoused by protectionists would lead to logical contradictions is not surprising. In defending the “national interest ...Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on February 14, 2024. Tweet. GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino reveals yet further incoherence in the policy positions of Sen. Josh Hawley. Two slices: Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) wants President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to force an aluminum plant in Missouri to stay open, but he …Jan 29, 2024 · A blog by economist Don Boudreaux that covers topics such as markets, politics, culture, and history. The latest posts include quotations, links, and commentary on topics such as protectionism, inheritance tax, and endangered species. The blog is named after Hayek's concept of spontaneous order. Starbucks coffee stores and stands, as with many other coffee shops, offer a “cafe breve” version of the company’s lattes, in which half-and-half or light cream is substituted for ...As of 2014, nutritional information for Black Walnut Cafe can be found at MyFitnessPal. People who are interested in learning more about the nutritional values of anything on the B...TweetThe Russian government wants to punish America for sanctions the U.S. government imposed on Russia over the Russian government’s involvement in the hostilities in Ukraine. So what does the Russian government do? Its chosen means for punishing America is to prevent the Russian people from buying food from America. “We’ll show you, Comrade …When it comes to delicious and wholesome food options, Panera Bread is a go-to destination for many. With a wide range of menu items that cater to various tastes and dietary prefer...How long does a similar worker today have to work to buy similar items? (Note that that worker in 1975 earned, in 1975 dollars, $4.87 per hour. A similar worker today earns, in 2012 dollars, $19.84 per hour.) – Manual treadmill: 1975 price was $89.99 (or 18.5 hours of work in 1975); 2013 price is $127.99 (or 6.5 hours of work today)Tweet. As Russ announced, Cafe Hayek recently opened a section dealing with the alleged "hollowing out" of America — the alleged disappearance of the American middle-class.. My two latest columns in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review — here and here — offer some reasons why the Consumer Price Index likely overstates inflation — and, …New York Times Reports Evidence Against Monopsony Power. by Don Boudreaux on February 16, 2014. Tweet. Here’s a letter to the New York Times: You report that higher minimum-wage rates in Oregon, Washington State, and Nevada prompt many Idahoans to quit jobs in their home state in order to take higher-wage jobs in these …TweetHere’s a letter to the New York Times: Cherry-picking evidence on the employment effects of minimum-wage legislation – evidence that is suspect because it generally fails to consider long-term as well as a sufficiently full range of consequences – Paul Krugman writes that “[r]aising the minimum wage makes jobs better; it doesn’t seem …Cafe Hayek. 5,413 likes · 1 talking about this. Education websiteSome Links. by Don Boudreaux on February 14, 2024. Tweet. GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino reveals yet further incoherence in the policy positions of Sen. Josh Hawley. Two slices: Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) wants President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to force an aluminum plant in Missouri to stay open, but he …The Case for Free Trade Is NOT ‘Globalist’. by Don Boudreaux on January 9, 2024. Tweet. There is much – very much – to criticize in Oren Cass’s recent cannonade, fired at Law & Liberty, against free trade. These criticisms are forthcoming. But I here want to emphasize one that has already been issued by Pierre Lemieux and, later, Jon ...3 days ago · The Best Protective Tariff Rate Is Zero (But Perhaps Not So for Revenue Tariffs) by Don Boudreaux on January 26, 2024. Bonus Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on February 6, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 270 of Historical Impromptus, a 2020 collection of some of Deirdre McCloskey’s work on economic history; this quotation, specifically, is from McCloskey’s March 1991 review, in Reason, of Joel Mokyr’s The Lever of Riches: In the end, the thing …Sowell on Scarcity. by Russ Roberts on May 10, 2006. Tweet. Here is Thomas Sowell’s deep insight about economic reality from Basic Economics: A distinguished British economist named Lionel Robbins gave the classic definition of economics: Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses. What …Nov 2, 2022 · TweetRuss Roberts talks with Mike Munger about industrial policy. Here’s a slice, from the transcript, of Munger’s remarks: Look, elected officials have a two-year time horizon until the next election. And that’s in November. So, in December they have a 23-month time horizon. So, politics has a really, really short time horizon, and that’s why […] Nov 2, 2022 · TweetRuss Roberts talks with Mike Munger about industrial policy. Here’s a slice, from the transcript, of Munger’s remarks: Look, elected officials have a two-year time horizon until the next election. And that’s in November. So, in December they have a 23-month time horizon. So, politics has a really, really short time horizon, and that’s why […] Panera Bread is a popular bakery-café chain known for its delicious and wholesome menu offerings. With a wide range of options available, from breakfast to dinner, Panera menus hav...Keynes, Savings, and the Jews. by Russ Roberts on September 30, 2012. Tweet. In this week’s EconTalk (to be released tomorrow morning), I talk with Robert Skidelsky about his new book, co-authored with his son Edward, How Much is Enough: Money and the Good Life. The opening of the conversation is about an essay that …Dec 16, 2023 · A blog by economist Don Boudreaux that covers topics such as trade, taxes, culture, and history. Find quotations, links, and commentary on current events and issues from a free-market perspective. Cafe Hayek. where orders emerge. More on the Ill-Logic of Mercantilism. by Don Boudreaux on January 11, 2018. in Balance of Payments, Myths and Fallacies, Trade. Tweet. A common, and correct, observation among economists is that mercantilists mistake money for wealth. Mercantilists literally believe (even when they deny the belief) that money ...Cafe Hayek. where orders emerge. Adam Smith and His National-Defense Exception to a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade. by Don Boudreaux on September 18, 2020. in Adam Smith, Trade, Video, War. Tweet. In his short video I discuss Adam Smith’s national-defense exception to a policy of unilateral free trade. (Again, I thank my Mercatus Center ...TweetKevin Cobb e-mailed to ask what are my “top ten articles by Hayek”. Wow. That’s a difficult question to answer. But I’ll give it a shot. I exclude books, book chapters, and articles that became incorporated in full into any of Hayek’s books. (And I reserve the right later to change my mind.) The order […] Russell David " Russ " Roberts (born September 19, 1954) is an American-Israeli [3] economist. He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution and president of Shalem College in Jerusalem. [4] [5] [6] He is known for communicating economic ideas in understandable terms [7] as host of the EconTalk podcast. When it comes to designing a commercial cafe, one of the most important aspects to consider is the furniture. The right furniture can create a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere ...Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on February 13, 2024. Tweet. … is from page 281 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s important volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics (original emphasis): Black Americans, a group identified as beneficiaries of the welfare state in America, made considerable economic progress in the twentieth ...TweetWhat would Adam Smith say about humanity’s reaction to Covid-19? Of course, no one can really know. But there’s good reason to think that Smith would worry about the Covid-inspired social separation. In his 2020 book, Adam Smith, the University of Glasgow’s Craig Smith unpacks and explains to his readers Adam Smith’s philosophy. On pages […]Approximately 20 percent of all US manufactured goods exports in 2021—totaling more than $169 billion—were “ high technology ” products (i.e., “products with high [research and development] intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery”). …..TweetElon Musk tweets his endorsement of Johan Norberg’s new book, The Capitalist Manifesto. My GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan offers thoughts on his recent debate, at TCU, with Scott Sehon on capitalism versus socialism. Two slices: Sehon briefly talked about rights-based objections to socialism. He seemed to accept the old-school …TweetMy former Mercatus Center colleague Susan Dudley, writing with Kip Viscusi in the Wall Street Journal, warns of Biden & Co.’s politicization of benefit-cost analyses of government regulations. Two slices: President Biden recently promised to “modernize” regulatory review, and that includes a major overhaul of how agencies …Tweet. Some commentors here at the Cafe have insisted that – as “Brutus” put matters today when commenting on this post – “If the history of mercantilism showed that it weakened an economy, then I would agree with you [that protectionism harms an economy]. But the data indicates [sic] the otherwise, including the history of the US.”This myth is …Jan 14, 2024 · What I have often encountered are people who think that the case for free trade in America is one that ‘globalists’ push to help foreigners despite the net damage that free trade will allegedly inflict on America. Such a belief seems to undergird the “America First!” notion, and explains many of Trump’s diatribes against trade. TweetThe following is prompted by this splendid comment by Thomas Coss on this recent Cafe Hayek blog post: This minimum wage stuff is a head-fake; silly diversions so that political do-gooders can think highly about themselves, safe from any of the consequences. Indeed so. By advocating the use of government force to strip low …I'm grateful for my long friendship and collaboration—not least through our blog Café Hayek. (www.cafehayek.com)—with Russell Roberts, now of the Hoover ...Dec 3, 2021 · Please enter all required fields . Correct invalid entries . No spam, ever. Promise. Powered by FeedBlitz TweetKevin Cobb e-mailed to ask what are my “top ten articles by Hayek”. Wow. That’s a difficult question to answer. But I’ll give it a shot. I exclude books, book chapters, and articles that became incorporated in full into any of Hayek’s books. (And I reserve the right later to change my mind.) The order […] TweetI’m catching up on my correspondence. Mr. K__: Thanks for your follow-up e-mail. About this Café Hayek post of May 21st you write: “Greed is a necessary part of the explanation for inflation. Not greed alone. But greed in tandem with the Ukraine invasion and other supply constrictions. This cannot be denied. Greed is the […]Tweet. Regular readers of Cafe Hayek know that I’m very keen on the distinction between law and legislation.. (It’s a distinction that I learned long ago from F.A. Hayek’s 1973 book, and that Hayek himself learned from Bruno Leoni.)) The distinction is straightforward, but one that is too-little known and appreciated: a law is one among that …Quotation of the Day…. by Don Boudreaux on January 27, 2024. Tweet. … is from Javier Milei’s speech earlier this month at the World Economic Forum at Davos: Therefore since there is no doubt that free enterprise capitalism is superior in productive terms, the left-wing doxa has attacked capitalism, alleging matters of morality, saying ...In today’s digital age, having a stable and reliable WiFi connection is crucial. Whether you are at home, in the office, or even at a public space like a café or airport, a weak or...TweetAn economist friend, who teaches at a prominent U.S. university (not George Mason!), just sent to me the following e-mail in response to this earlier Cafe Hayek post in which I quote Thomas Sowell on the abuse of science. I share the e-mail with my friend’s kind permission, but my friend wishes to remain anonymous. […]TweetIn my latest column for AIER, I share a few letters that I’ve sent over the years to students and high-school teachers. A slice: Next is a 2019 letter to a high-school student in California who applied to George Mason University: Ms. S: Thanks for your e-mail. I’m honored that you read Café Hayek, and […]Panera Bread is a popular bakery-café chain known for its delicious and wholesome menu offerings. With a wide range of options available, from breakfast to dinner, Panera menus hav...Feb 12, 2024 · Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on February 12, 2024. Tweet. “ California’s fast-food minimum wage hike is already claiming numerous casualties .”. Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler finds wisdom in Bastiat. A slice: The negative space is the unseen, the consequences that need to be thought through, surmised, predicted, foreseen. Jan 16, 2024 · Help Improve the Cafe. Contact our webmaster about errors on the site. TweetThe blog post by Bivens reads like something written by a clever sophomore who’s too lazy to do real thinking; it’s filled with many errors in addition to the one mentioned below. Mr. K__: Thanks for sharing with me Josh Bivens’s blog post in which he blames inflation on high corporate profits. Unlike you, however, […]Tweet. Here’s a letter to BBC News:. Editor: You report that the British government “is discussing plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living” (“Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food,” May 28).This scheme – which will only make matters worse by causing shortages …Discoursing on Trade Deficits. Whatever credibility might reside in Kenneth Rapoza’s argument for us Americans to be wary of our trade with the Chinese is seriously diluted by his crude misunderstanding of trade balances (“ In the U.S.’s Fight Against China, We’re at a Distinct Disadvantage ,” January 3).May 19, 2022 ... Fondée par Mireille Hayek, la marque dispose de 3 enseignes au Liban : Em Sherif (Achrafieh), Em Sherif Café (Downtown Beirut) et Em Sherif Sea ...Some Links. by Don Boudreaux on February 8, 2024. Tweet. George Will wisely reflects on politics – and on the current sorry condition of it today in the U.S. Congress. A slice: As Judge Neomi Rao of the of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in an American Enterprise Institute lecture, pluralism “is a deep fact of the …Coffee machines are an essential part of any cafe or restaurant. They allow us to enjoy a freshly brewed cup of coffee with just the touch of a button. However, like any other appl...3 days ago · TweetHere’s a letter to a new correspondent: Mr. S__: Thanks for your e-mail expressing disagreement with my recent blog post on why we Americans should welcome EVs and other valuable goods subsidized by foreign governments. You write that “when we import subsidized electric vehicles we shrink America’s capacity to produce these.” It’s true that importing […] Sep 1, 2009 · TweetBenn Steil’s and Manuel Hinds’s Money, Markets & Sovereignty is among the most impressive books that I’ve read in a long time. I quoted from it in an earlier post, and I’m sure that I’ll do so in several other posts — including this one: Most wealth is created de novo in the process of […] Are you looking to create a unique and captivating ambiance in your café? One way to achieve this is by incorporating jazz background music into your establishment. Café jazz has a...by Don Boudreaux on January 10, 2024. Tweet. Today at Law & Liberty I respond at length to Oren Cass’s January 2nd, 2024, “Free Trade’s Origin Myth.”. Two slices from my response: The truth is that US trade deficits are neither evidence of a faltering economy, nor a source of such faltering. Quite the opposite.. Used expedition for sale near me, Wix filter finder, Amc theater chicago, Anime coloring books, Contact verizon fios customer service, Fappable gif, Aliens blonde, Spongebob brain on fire, Home depot fireplace doors.