Category Archives: Politics
Book Review: The Economics Anti-Textbook (2010)
The world we live in is a frictionless wonderland of free and fair markets, where all exchange is voluntary, everybody earns their marginal product, rising tides lift all boats, externalities are rare-to-nonexistent, and the Invisible Hand benevolently coordinates the human … Continue reading
A Coup by Other Means: TTIP, investor protections, and “free trade”
It’s always fun when your reading and the real world line up – although perhaps in this case “fun” may not be the right word. I like to read economic theory in my spare time. This may strike you as … Continue reading
For the Intro to German course I teach at the University of South Dakota, I like to expose students to contemporary German art, music, and film. If we only talk about Goethe and Mozart, as great as they are, students … Continue reading
Revolutions Per Minute 