The Sweden Myth
The seemingly impressive Swedish boom will certainly be revealed as a fraud — just as the whole story of the success of the Swedish economic model is a fraud.
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The Worst Economics Article Ever?
Taylor, and you other critics of the spontaneous outcomes of the market economy, please do us all a favor: Go read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.
China’s Revaluation-One Year Later
This weekend marks the one year anniversary of China’s first step away from its more
Chinese Bank Credit Drives Boom and Bust Cycle
Economist Brad Setser (Director of Research, Roubini Globa
The Trouble With Axelrod: The Prisoners’ Utility Cannot be Measured or Compared
The problem with this assumption is that it is quite impossible to construct a scale of measurement for human preferences — both for individuals and especially for groups of individuals.
Government Did Invent the Internet, But the Market Made It Glorious
Government involvement accounts for the internet's continuing problems, while the market should get the credit for its glories.
Translating Brazillian Inflation
Danilo Nogueira provides a brief history of the Brazilian inflation in The Language of Inflation
How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden
To be Swedish once meant to be beholden to no one. But Per Bylund writes that the welfare state has created a dependent people utterly incapable of finding value in life.
Don’t Raise Capital in America
Because I think they’re only accessible to people with paid subscriptions, I rarely blog items from the Wall Street Journal.
