Populist movements portray society as divided between “the people” and “the elites” and often seek to relax institutional constraints. This paper exam…

In my last post, I concluded with a claim that felt somewhat uncomfortable: that once a new technology expands the realm of what is possible, we cannot preserve the old meaning of certain human roles ...

Legal rights continue to differ between women and men, particularly in developing countries. In this paper, we examine whether economic integration ca…

Michel Foucault famously refused to formulate a normative theory of the state, arguing instead that political analysis must "cut off the King's head." This chapter explores Foucault’s releva...

In the second part of the conversation, host Niclas Berggren continues his interview with Swedish economist Magnus Henrekson, delving deeper into the key forces shaping Europe’s economic future. They ...

Social trust, a key cultural trait influencing economic behavior, plays a critical yet understudied role in immigrant integration. This paper examines how trust, both as an individual disposition and...

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On this episode, Chandran Kukathas delivers a lecture at the Mercatus Center on capitalism, human nature, and the meani

In this new episode, host Niclas Berggren talks with Magnus Henrekson about some of today’s most pressing economic challenges. The discussion explores: what entrepreneurship is and why it matters, why...

Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics and Public Policy Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman. Cambridge University Press, 2020, xii+496 pages. - Volume 9 Issue 4

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Public Choice -

Gaus, Gerald, The Open Society and Its Complexities, Oxford University Press, 2021.   By Nick Cowen   The modal academic …

Central banks have become more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem fo…

Public choice is a vast field at the intersection of political science and economics as well as immense diversity of topics and approaches.

The narrow conception of justice traditionally attributed to Hume limits itself to respect for the rules of property. This article challenges the increasingly common idea that this view is exceedingly...

The current literature highlights the role of institutions in affecting the allocation of entrepreneurial talent as a precondition for productive entrepreneurship. However, existing approaches to this...

Recently, I’ve stumbled upon this WSJ piece by Tupy and Boettke claiming that artificial intelligence can’t replace free markets because it can’t solve the knowledge problem.

Social trust, a key cultural trait influencing economic behavior, plays a critical yet understudied role in immigrant integration. This paper examines how trust, both as an individual disposition and...

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Western societies are growing more equal, not less.

There is concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that capitalism disfavors women. This could take many forms, for example, lower wages for the same work, reduced career opportunities, dispar...

Many disciplines rely on economic games to measure prosocial behavior. However, there is a concern that participants may misunderstand these games, co…

Does economic freedom come at the expense of women's economic rights, or does it instead help improve them? Presently, there are almost no studies inv…