Articles by author and letters

Eric Mack

John Locke: Mercantilist?

Article May 1 2023

Phillip W. Magness

School Vouchers and the Inverse-Hirschman Scenario

Richard Mahoney

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Belts and Suspenders: The Regulatory Aftermath of the Corporate Accounting Scandals

Article Feb 2 2004

Beatriz Maldonado

Misusing Trade Agreements

Article Nov 21 2025

Trey Malone

No Yolk: Shortages and Spikes in the Time of COVID

Article May 3 2021

N. Gregory Mankiw

An Interview with N. Gregory Mankiw

Alain Marciano

What Should Economists Do? A Historical Perspective

Book Review Jan 6 2025

Adam Martin

Socialism Is as Socialism Does

Article Jun 5 2023

Looking Back at the Austrian Revival

Liberty Classics May 2 2022

Price Discrimination and the Future of Movies

Article Nov 2 2020

What's the Economist's Point of View?

Book Review Sep 7 2020

Hayek, Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Liberty Classics Apr 1 2019

Antoine Martin

What Would Bagehot Have Thought of the Fed's Policy after September 11, 2001?

Article Sep 1 2003

Ibsen Martinez

Crime, Violence, and Development

Reflections from Latin America Jul 6 2009

The Informal Continent

Reflections from Latin America Jun 1 2009

A Painful Paradox

Reflections from Latin America May 4 2009

Latin America and the Great Depression

Reflections from Latin America Apr 6 2009

The Pyramids of Putumayo

Reflections from Latin America Jan 5 2009

Grey Anatomy

Reflections from Latin America Nov 3 2008

Some Latin American Views On the Financial Crisis

Reflections from Latin America Oct 6 2008

Indigenism and Economics

Reflections from Latin America Sep 1 2008

Guano

Reflections from Latin America Aug 4 2008

FARC Politics, FARConomics

Reflections from Latin America Jul 7 2008

Greed, Grievance, and Rainforest

Reflections from Latin America Jun 2 2008

That Haunting Chilean Model

Reflections from Latin America May 5 2008

The Pessimistic Neighbor

Reflections from Latin America Apr 7 2008

On Price Controls and Populist "DoubleThink"

Reflections from Latin America Mar 3 2008

Panama: Does Geography Matter?

Reflections from Latin America Feb 4 2008

Falling Behind

Reflections from Latin America Jan 7 2008

Why Costaguana Matters

Reflections from Latin America Dec 3 2007

Aid and the Missionary's Position

Reflections from Latin America Nov 5 2007

On Beggars South of the Border

Reflections from Latin America Sep 3 2007

Latin America and the Ideology of Development

Reflections from Latin America Aug 6 2007

Nationalizations: Part II. The Never Ending Experiment

Reflections from Latin America Jul 2 2007

Nationalizations: Part I. A Latin American Story

Reflections from Latin America Jun 4 2007

Can "New" Currency Abate Venezuelan Inflation?

Reflections from Latin America May 7 2007

State of Pretense, Imitation Subjects

Reflections from Latin America Apr 2 2007

On Good Savages and Good Revolutionists

Reflections from Latin America Mar 5 2007

Brave New Word?

Reflections from Latin America Feb 5 2007

A Russian Word for a Latin American Disease

Reflections from Latin America Jan 8 2007

Milton Friedman and Latin America

Reflections from Latin America Dec 4 2006

On Guano and Dependency Theory

Reflections from Latin America Nov 6 2006

Economic Imagery: Open Veins of Latin America

Reflections from Latin America Oct 2 2006

Bolívar: 200 Years Of Failure?

Reflections from Latin America Sep 4 2006

OPEC: A Texan Idea Twice Thought In Venezuela

Reflections from Latin America Aug 7 2006

Prison Riots and Rule of Law Orthodoxy

Reflections from Latin America Jul 3 2006

Of Tin Mines, Coca Leaves and Eternal Recurrence

Reflections from Latin America Jun 5 2006

Remittances and the Latin American Dream

Reflections from Latin America Apr 3 2006

Unproductive Progress

Reflections from Latin America Apr 3 2006

Barter and "Magic Realism"

Reflections from Latin America Mar 6 2006

The Truth Will Not Be Televised

Reflections from Latin America Feb 6 2006

Latin Baseball: A Frontier Story

Reflections from Latin America Jan 9 2006

Licit Globalization

Reflections from Latin America Dec 5 2005

Global Soap: Poverty Bears a Woman's Face

Reflections from Latin America Nov 7 2005

Tepito's Way

Reflections from Latin America Oct 3 2005

The Curse of the Petro-State: The Example of Venezuela

Reflections from Latin America Sep 5 2005

"Informal Entrepreneurs" and the Telecommunications Monopoly in Caracas

Reflections from Latin America Aug 1 2005

Cory Massimino

Don Lavoie on the Continuing Relevance of the Knowledge Problem

Article Aug 7 2023

Erik W. Matson

The Inescapable Principle of Comparative Advantage

Article May 5 2025

Patriotism and Universal Benevolence: Are They Consistent?

Article Aug 5 2024

Adam Smith on Capitalism and the Common Good

Article Dec 7 2020

Philip Maymin

Why Financial Regulation is Doomed to Fail

Fred S. McChesney

Government Pensions: Such a Deal

Armen Alchian: An Economist-Lion in Winter

Indian Givers: Politicians and Tribal Gambling Casinos

Volunteers of America: Lessons from the New Contract Army

Article Jul 4 2005

What's Mine Is Theirs: The Ever-Shimmering Mirage of Lasting Tax Reform

Article Apr 4 2005

Good Timing: A Mutual-Fund "Scandal"?

Smoke and Errors

Enron's True Lesson: Political Opportunism

Article Mar 11 2002

Historic Self-Preservation

Article Jan 7 2002

Snow Jobs

Declan McCullagh

Confidentially Yours: The Difference between Private and Public Snooping

Big Bucks for Small Technology

The Struggle Over Intellectual Property

The Economics of Regulating Privacy on the Internet

Consuming Spam Mail

Russ McCullough

Are Economists Basically Immoral? Lessons from Paul Heyne

Liberty Classics Feb 3 2020

John McKenzie

California Leaking: People, Pipes, and Prices

Article Aug 1 2022

Richard B. McKenzie

The Rational Bull Elk

Article Oct 6 2025

Thinking: Both Fundamental and Misunderstood

Article Nov 4 2024

California Dreaming: The Effects of California's "Fast Food" Minimum Wage

Article May 6 2024

The Fragility of Civil Society

Article Jan 1 2024

The Partisan Parting of TV News

Article Sep 4 2023

A Wealth Tax Reality Check

Article Jun 5 2023

California Leaking: People, Pipes, and Prices

Article Aug 1 2022

Professor Gordon Tullock: A Personal Remembrance on His Centennial

Article Feb 7 2022

Progressives' Desires to Help the Poor Will End Up Hurting Them Instead

Article Sep 6 2021

How the Collapse of Communism Has Undermined Faith in American Capitalism

Article Sep 7 2020

A "Hodgepodge" of State-Based COVID-19 Rules May be Just What the Doctor Ordered

Article Jun 1 2020

Market Competitiveness and Rationality: A Brain-Focused Perspective

Article Oct 7 2019

Of Diet Cokes and Brain-Focused Economics

Brian Williams' Fall from Grace, "False Memory," and Incentives

Professor Gordon Tullock: A Personal Remembrance

The California Water Crisis: Policing vs. Pricing?

Why Walking to Work Can be More Polluting Than Driving to Work

Popcorn As Political Pork

In Defense of Apple

How Free-Market Kidney Sales Can Save Lives—And Lower the Total Cost of Kidney Transplants

Predictably Irrational or Predictably Rational?

Economic Therapy: Comforting Pointers for Turbulent Times

Alberto Mingardi

Law, Legislation, and Libertarianism

Book Review May 5 2025

Freedom and the Lawmakers

Book Review Nov 4 2024

Immigration and the Open Society

Book Review Sep 6 2021

Etatism and Totalitarianism: The Legacy of Mises's Omnipotent Government

Book Review Jun 7 2021

Of Kings, Keynes, and Capitalism

Book Review Dec 7 2020

Liberalism versus the State

Liberty Classics May 4 2020

Equality and Freedom in Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics

Liberty Classics Aug 5 2019

Jeffrey A. Miron

The Economics of the Tenure System

Mandatory Savings Programs

Can Privatization Improve the Financial Health of the Social Security System?

Campaign Finance Regulation

Cyril Morong

The Noise-to-signal Ratio as a Metaphor for the Deadweight Loss of Taxes

Paul Mueller

What Is a Just Price?

Article May 4 2020

Michael Munger

Capitalism, Corruption, and the Ugly Pig

Book Review Oct 7 2024

Nikole Hannah-Jones vs the UNC Board of Governors: Academic Freedom for Whom?

Article Jun 7 2021

Why Would Anyone Want Austerity?

Book Review Dec 2 2019

Anthony de Jasay: A Remembrance

Article Jun 3 2019

Market Makers or Parasites?

Planning Order, Causing Chaos: Transantiago

Orange Blossom Special: Externalities and the Coase Theorem

Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms?

The Five Sorry Rules of Lateness

Think Globally, Act Irrationally: Recycling

I'll Stick With These: Some Sharp Observations on the Division of Labor

They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity?

Two Steves and One Soichiro: Why Politicians Can't Judge Innovation

Rent-Seek and You Will Find

A Fable of the OC

Unintended Consequences 1, Good Intentions 0

Article Jan 9 2006

Everybody Loves Mikey

The Thing Itself

Democracy is a Means, Not an End

Tragedy of the Malecon: Is Cuba “Domestic” Politics?

Jon Murphy

Have Coase - Will Travel

Does National Security Justify Tariffs?

Kevin M. Murphy

Can Privatization Improve the Financial Health of the Social Security System?

Robert P. Murphy

William Nordhaus versus the United Nations on Climate Change Economics

Article Nov 5 2018

Economists Should Be More Careful With Their Statistics

Does a Worker Help the Rest of Society?

The Private Production of Roads

Opting Out of Social Security

Pitfalls in GDP Accounting

Monetary Calculation as a Scorecard

Large Increases in the Minimum Wage Are Likely to Destroy Jobs

Government Debt and Future Generations

Accounting for Capital and Income

The Importance of Capital in Economic Theory

Economists Debate the Minimum Wage

Why Government Doesn't—and Can't—Manage Resources Like a Private Business

The Economics of Bitcoin

What Economic Research Says About Fiscal Austerity and Higher Tax Rates

Carbon Taxes and the "Tax Interaction Effect"

Modeling Money

Lessons From Solyndra

Privatizing Federal Government Assets

Ensuring—and Insuring—Air Security

The Stock Market

The Economics of Discrimination

The Costs of Government

The Benefits of Procrastination: The Economics of Geo-engineering

The Economics of Climate Change

Nothing Paradoxical About Thrift

A Man, A Plan, And a Short-Selling Ban

Oil Speculators: Bad or Good

Article Aug 4 2008

January 2026 ISSUE

Book Review

How Productivity Advances

Book Review

Exploring The Chile Project

Article

Misusing Trade Agreements

Book Review

On Solving Social Dilemmas

Eric Mack

Phillip W. Magness

Richard Mahoney

Beatriz Maldonado

Trey Malone

N. Gregory Mankiw

Alain Marciano

Adam Martin

Antoine Martin

Ibsen Martinez

Cory Massimino

Erik W. Matson

Philip Maymin

Fred S. McChesney

Declan McCullagh

Russ McCullough

John McKenzie

Richard B. McKenzie

Alberto Mingardi

Jeffrey A. Miron

Cyril Morong

Paul Mueller

Michael Munger