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Anderson, Chris See his EconTalk podcasts Barro, Robert See his EconTalk podcasts Blog: EconLog. See also: Caplan, Bryan, Editor Kling, Arnold, Editor EconLog Archives: Date | Author | Category Becker, Gary See his EconTalk podcasts Boettke, Peter February 24, 2000: Why Read the Classics in Economics? Bolick, Clint See his EconTalk podcasts Boyer, George R. December 2, 2002: Politics and Welfare: The Political Economy of the English Poor Laws Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce See his EconTalk podcasts Caplan, Bryan EconLog Editor. See: EconLog Archives for Bryan Caplan Arnold Kling, co-editor November 1, 2004: The Idea Trap December 1, 2003: Mises and Bastiat on How Democracy Goes Wrong, Part II November 3, 2003: Mises and Bastiat on How Democracy Goes Wrong, Part I Cogan, John See his EconTalk podcasts Combs, Alexander June 7, 2004: Two Track Mind: How Irrational Policy Endures Coursey, Don October 28, 2002: Vernon Smith, Economic Experiments, and the Visible Hand September 16, 2002: Economic Value, the Value of Economists, and the Meaning of Life Cox, Donald May 4, 2006: [Podcast] The Economics of Inheritance. With Russ Roberts March 16, 2006: [Podcast] Russ Roberts March 6, 2006: Parent-onomics 101: Can Economics Help You Be a Better Parent? November 7, 2005: Why is Economics So Boring? August 4, 2003: The Economics of Believe-It-Or-Not August 5, 2002: Religious Fundamentalism and the Art of Motorcycle Club Maintenance February 18, 2002: Why Economists Should Study Biology Cowen, Tyler May 18, 2000: In Praise of Commercial Fame EconLog (Blog). See Caplan, Bryan, Editor Kling, Arnold, Editor EconLog Archives Articles by date, category, and author. EconTalk (Podcasts). See Russ Roberts, Host EconTalk Archives. Epstein, Richard See his EconTalk podcasts The Economics of Organ Donations Podcast transcript Emmett, Ross February 11, 2000: The Online Transformation of Economics Education Annotated bibliography of Frank H. Knight Fleischacker, Sam October 4, 2004: Economics and the Ordinary Person: Re-reading Adam Smith Friedman, Milton September 4, 2006: An Interview with Milton Friedman. Podcast Transcript, with Russ Roberts. Podcast audio: Part I: Milton Friedman on Money Part II: Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom Glaeser, Edward See his EconTalk podcasts Hanushek, Eric See his EconTalk podcasts Hart, David January 7, 2002: Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy, an annotated bibliography December 17, 2001: The Life and Works of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, an annotated bibliography November 5, 2001: The Life and Works of Jean-Baptiste Say, an annotated bibliography August 6, 2001: The Life and Works of Gustave de Molinari, an annotated bibliography Hubbard, R. Glenn February 3, 2003: An Interview with R. Glenn Hubbard on the Fundamentals of Tax Reform Huberman, Bernardo August 26, 2002: Patterns in the World Wide Web Iannaccone, Laurence See his EconTalk podcasts Irwin, Douglas A. November 26, 2001: A Brief History of International Trade Policy Jasay, Anthony de Reflections from Europe: May 5, 2008: A Trillion Dollar "Catastrophe"? April 7, 2008: The Use and Abuse of Taxes and Tax Havens March 3, 2008: Economics Textbooks: Teaching to Despise February 4, 2008: The Demise of GDP Is Premature January 7, 2008: Solvency and Liquidity: Some Financial "Crises" Are More Critical Than Others December 3, 2007: A Bill of Rights Europe Did Not Need November 5, 2007: The Political Economy of Force-Feeding October 1, 2007: Europe: More Secular and More Islamist September 3, 2007: Misbehaviour, Punishment, Prosperity: Part II. The Soviet Legacy August 6, 2007: Misbehaviour, Punishment, Prosperity: Part I. The Statist Legacy July 2, 2007: Low Pay June 14, 2007: When the Economy Needs Morals April 2, 2007: The French Tragicomedy March 5, 2007: The Capitalism They Hate: Part II. Indecent Earnings February 5, 2007: The Capitalism They Hate: Part I. The Inequality Machine January 8, 2007: Russia Hopping Along on Clay Feet December 4, 2006: Property or "Property Rights"? November 6, 2006: The Failure of Market Failure: Part II. The Public Goods Dilemma October 2, 2006: The Failure of Market Failure: Part I. The Problem of Contract Enforcement September 4, 2006: The Yakoubovich Syndrome, or Lies, Damn Lies and Economic Policy August 7, 2006: Immigration: What is the Liberal Stand? July 7, 2006: Russia and the New Europe: Growing Apart June 5, 2006: Striving to Get Richer and Poorer May 1, 2006: Paternalism and Employment April 3, 2006: Stamp Your Feet and Demand a Fair Deal March 6, 2006: Hostile to Whom? 'Economic Patriotism' To Resist 'Market Dictatorship' February 6, 2006: Winning Policy Battles, but Losing the War Against Economic Realities January 9, 2006: Urban Riots: How the French Social Model Could Self-Destruct December 5, 2005: Turkey and the EU Club November 7, 2005: Some Bad News Could Be Good News October 3, 2005: Are High Oil Prices a Form of Exploitation? September 8, 2005: Paying Ourselves More of Their Money August 1, 2005: The Instability of the Welfare State July 4, 2005: What Now for "Europe"? Why the People Failed Their Masters June 6, 2005: How Germany and France, the Sick Men of Europe, Torture Themselves May 2, 2005: Trying the Free Market: Unacceptable (Part II) April 4, 2005: Trying the Free Market: Presumed Guilty (Part I) March 7, 2005: A War of White Hats and Black Hats: A War of Attrition between Economic Reality and Political Dreams February 7, 2005: The Future of Europe: A Giant Free Trade Area or a Political Counterweight to America? January 10, 2005: The Seen and the Unseen: The Costly Mistake of Ignoring Opportunity Cost December 6, 2004: The Seen and the Unseen: On the Economics of Protecting Employment November 1, 2004: "Globalisation" and Its Critics—Mutual Gain vs. Cloud Cuckoo Land October 4, 2004: Weather Forecast—A Brightening of the Economic Skies over Brussels? September 6, 2004: The Doctrine of "Unequal Exchange": The Last Refuge of Modern Socialism? August 2, 2004: "Bread and Circuses" in the Modern Welfare State: Is the Worm Finally Turning? July 5, 2004: Jogging, Not Racing: European Cross-Currents and the Federalist Drift June 7, 2004: Economic Theories and Social Justice, Part II: Who Minds the Gap? May 3, 2004: Economic Theories of Social Justice: Risk, Value, and Externality April 5, 2004: Third Time Lucky in Russia: Can Putin Build a Real Economy from Oil and Rigour? March 1, 2004: Some Democratic Economics: If We Pay the Piper, Whose Tune Will He Play? February 12, 2004: The Things Labour Unions Are Up To January 7, 2004: A Tadpole Constitution, Part II: Majority Rule by Any Other Name December 1, 2003: A Tadpole Constitution, Part I: How Confederacy Could Turn into a Federal Superstate November 3, 2003: Shall We Borrow from the Children? September 17, 2003: Free-Riding on the Euro September 1, 2003: Property and its Enemies, Part III: How to Get a Free Lunch? Just Apply for It. August 4, 2003: Property and its Enemies, Part II: Is Ownership a Myth? August 4, 2003: Property and its Enemies, Part I: "Design Faults" in Locke's Theory of Property Taint Ownership with Guilt June 2, 2003: Capitalism and Virtue: Politicians Do Not Understand the Economy, But Do Managers? May 15, 2003: Float or Sink? The Millstone of the "Social Market" in Germany April 24, 2003: More Nonsense on Stilts: Mr. Bentham Is At It Again April 7, 2003: What Price Pride? On the Hidden Costs of Economic Illiteracy April 7, 2003: Turkey Knocking on Europe's Door March 3, 2003: The Sins of the Fathers and the Sins of the Sons: Economic Consequences of a United States of Europe July 15, 2002: Thirty-five Hours April 22, 2002: Your Dog Owns Your House Klein, Daniel B. March 5, 2007: The Smith-Hayek Economist: From Character to Identity May 1, 2006: Rinkonomics: A Window on Spontaneous Order Kling, Arnold EconLog Editor. See: EconLog Archives for Arnold Kling Bryan Caplan, co-editor October 7, 2002: The Economics of the Wireless Last Mile Lakdawalla, Darius See his EconTalk podcasts Lea, Geoffrey August 6, 2007: A Tale of Two Worlds: The Rules of Personal and Impersonal Exchange Lemieux, Pierre June 2000: The Economics of Smoking Lessig, Lawrence April 7, 2003: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig on Copyrights Levy, David M. and Sandra J. Peart December 5, 2005: Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher." Part 2. The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh By Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy. June 6, 2005: Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher." Part 1. By Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy. July 7, 2003: The Anti-Exchange Coalition: Godwin Remakes the World January 6, 2003: An Inquiry into the Causes which Affect the Happiness of Nations: The comfort of the lower orders The Secret History of the Dismal Science: May 13, 2002: Eugenics and the Amoralization of Economics December 17, 2001: Parasite Economics and Market Exchange August 27, 2001: Paternalism, Hierarchy, and Markets June 4, 2001: The Governor Eyre Controversy March 26, 2001: Brotherhood, Trade, and the "Negro Question" January 22, 2001: Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century Mahoney, Richard February 2, 2004: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Belts and Suspenders: The Regulatory Aftermath of the Corporate Accounting Scandals Mankiw, N. Gregory January 22, 2007: EconTalk podcast May 2, 2005: An Interview with N. Gregory Mankiw Martin, Antoine September 1, 2003: What Would Bagehot Have Thought of the Fed's Policy after September 11, 2001? Martinez, Ibsen Reflections from Latin America: May 5, 2008: That Haunting Chilean Model April 7, 2008: The Pessimistic Neighbor March 3, 2008: On Price Controls and Populist "DoubleThink" February 4, 2008: Panama: Does Geography Matter? January 7, 2008: Falling Behind December 3, 2007: Why Costaguana Matters November 5, 2007: Aid and the Missionary's Position September 3, 2007: On Beggars South of the Border August 6, 2007: Latin America and the Ideology of Development July 2, 2007: Nationalizations: Part II. The Never Ending Experiment June 4, 2007: Nationalizations: Part I. A Latin American Story May 7, 2007: Can "New" Currency Abate Venezuelan Inflation? April 2, 2007: State of Pretense, Imitation Subjects March 5, 2007: On Good Savages and Good Revolutionists February 5, 2007: Brave New Word? January 8, 2007: A Russian Word for a Latin American Disease December 4, 2006: Milton Friedman and Latin America November 6, 2006: On Guano and Dependency Theory October 2, 2006: Economic Imagery: Open Veins of Latin America September 4, 2006: Bolívar: 200 Years Of Failure? August 7, 2006: OPEC: A Texan Idea Twice Thought In Venezuela July 3, 2006: Prison Riots and Rule of Law Orthodoxy June 5, 2006: Of Tin Mines, Coca Leaves and Eternal Recurrence May 1, 2006: Remittances and the Latin American Dream April 3, 2006: Unproductive Progress March 6, 2006: Barter and "Magic Realism" February 6, 2006: The Truth Will Not Be Televised January 9, 2006: Latin Baseball: A Frontier Story December 5, 2005: Licit Globalization November 7, 2005: Global Soap: Poverty Bears a Woman's Face October 3, 2005: Tepito's Way September 5, 2005: The Curse of the Petro-State: The Example of Venezuela August 1, 2005: "Informal Entrepreneurs" and the Telecommunications Monopoly in Caracas McChesney, Fred S. February 6, 2006: Indian Givers: Politicians and Tribal Gambling Casinos July 4, 2005: Volunteers of America: Lessons from the New Contract Army April 4, 2005: What's Mine Is Theirs: The Ever-Shimmering Mirage of Lasting Tax Reform January 5, 2004: Good Timing: A Mutual-Fund “Scandal”? June 24, 2002: Smoke and Errors March 11, 2002: Enron's True Lesson: Political Opportunism January 7, 2002: Historic Self-Preservation October 15, 2001: Snow Jobs McCullagh, Declan March 1, 2004: Confidentially Yours: The Difference between Private and Public Snooping May 5, 2003: Big Bucks for Small Technology August 6, 2001: The Struggle Over Intellectual Property May 14, 2001: The Economics of Regulating Privacy on the Internet February 12, 2001: Consuming Spam Mail Miron, Jeffrey A. September 24, 2001: The Economics of the Tenure System July 16, 2001: Mandatory Savings Programs April 23, 2001: Can Privatization Improve the Financial Health of the Social Security System? (with Kevin M. Murphy) January 2, 2001: Campaign Finance Regulation: Understanding the Real Issues Munger, Michael Mike Munger's EconTalk podcasts May 5, 2008: Orange Blossom Special: Externalities and the Coase Theorem January 7, 2008: Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms? October 1, 2007: The Five Sorry Rules of Lateness July 2, 2007: Think Globally, Act Irrationally: Recycling April 2, 2007: I'll Stick With These: Some Sharp Observations on the Division of Labor January 8, 2007: They Clapped: Can Price-Gouging Laws Prohibit Scarcity? October 2, 2006: Two Steves and One Soichiro: Why Politicians Can't Judge Innovation July 3, 2006: Rent-Seek and You Will Find June 23, 2006: [Podcast] Giving Away Money: An Economist's Guide to Political Life. With Russ Roberts April 10, 2006: [Podcast] Ticket Scalping and Opportunity Cost. With Russ Roberts April 3, 2006: A Fable of the OC January 9, 2006: Unintended Consequences 1, Good Intentions 0 August 1, 2005: Everybody Loves Mikey March 7, 2005: The Thing Itself January 10, 2005: Democracy is a Means, Not an End August 8-15, 2004: Guest Blogger on EconLog. See: EconLog Archives by Author August 2, 2004: Tragedy of the Malecon: Is Cuba “Domestic” Politics? Murphy, Kevin M. See: Miron. Murphy, Robert P. April 7, 2008: Oil Prices Nye, John V.C. October 6, 2003: Disputing Tastes March 3, 2003: The Myth of Free-Trade Britain April 1, 2002: Irreducible Inequality, Part 2 of 2. January 28, 2002: Economic Growth and True Inequality, Part 1 of 2. Peart, Sandra J. December 5, 2005: Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher." Part 2. The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh With Levy, David M. June 6, 2005: Happiness, Progress and the "Vanity of the Philosopher." With Levy, David M. See also: Levy, David M. Peltzman, Sam See his EconTalk podcasts Podcasts: EconTalk. See also: Russ Roberts, host EconTalk Archives. Prychitko, David L. September 6, 2004: The Nature and Significance of Marx's: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Richman, Sheldon Annotated bibliography of Frédéric Bastiat Roberts, Russell Host, EconTalk. Economics podcasts. See EconTalk Archives December 3, 2007: Pigs Don't Fly: The Economic Way of Thinking about Politics June 4, 2007: Where Do Prices Come From? February 5, 2007: Getting the Most Out of Life: The Concept of Opportunity Cost December 4, 2006: Treasure Island: The Power of Trade. Part II. How Trade Transforms Our Standard of Living November 6, 2006: Treasure Island: The Power of Trade. Part I. The Seemingly Simple Story of Comparative Advantage June 5, 2006: Incentives Matter September 5, 2005: The Reality of Markets May 2, 2005: An Interview with N. Gregory Mankiw February 7, 2005: A Marvel of Cooperation: How Order Emerges without a Conscious Planner July 5, 2004: Presidential Economics: What Leaders Can and Cannot Do about the State of the Economy April 7, 2003: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig on Copyrights February 3, 2003: An Interview with R. Glenn Hubbard on the Fundamentals of Tax Reform June 3, 2002: Napsternomics: What's the Most Effective Way to Protect Intellectual Property? November 5, 2001: Is Bethlehem Steel the Canary in the Economic Mine Shaft? June 25, 2001: Do "Big Box" Retailers Harm the Quality of Life? March 5, 2001: How Safe is that Trucker in the Window Romer, Paul November 5, 2007: An Interview with Paul Romer on Economic Growth Rose, Morgan See Teacher's Corner. Sanderson, Allen R. March 3, 2008: Incentives, Incentives, Incentives September 3, 2007: De Minimis August 7, 2006: Bend It Like (Yogi) Berra October 3, 2005: The Price Is Right December 6, 2004: Power to Which People? May 3, 2004: The Puzzling Economics of Sports Sauer, Raymond D. "Skip" See his EconTalk podcasts Selgin, George See: White. Tabarrok, Alexander May 30, 2006: [Podcast] The Economics of Medical Malpractice. With Russ Roberts April 5, 2004: Life-Saving Incentives: Consequences and Solutions to the Organ Shortage Thaler, Richard H. See his EconTalk podcasts Varma, Amit February 4, 2008: Profit's No Longer a Dirty Word: The Transformation of India Wesbury, Brian S. June 2, 2003: Taking the Voodoo Out of Tax Cuts White, Lawrence H. and George Selgin April 2000: Why Private Banks and Not Central Banks Should Issue Currency, Especially in Less Developed Countries Whitman, Glen May 7, 2007: Slavery, Snakes, and Switching: The Role of Incentives in Creating Unintended Consequences Williams, Walter See his EconTalk podcasts Special Series A Brief History of the Concept of Comparative Advantage, by Morgan Rose (August 6, 2001) Does It Matter How You Pay for a State Dinner? A Lesson on Ricardian Equivalence, by Morgan Rose (September 24, 2001) The Econlib Summer Reading List, by Morgan Rose (June 3, 2002) Economists' Views on the Costs of War, Part I, by Morgan Rose (January 28, 2002) Economists' Views on the Costs of War, Part II, by Morgan Rose (February 18, 2002) An Education in Market Failure, by Morgan Rose (March 11, 2002) Elasticity and Its Expansion, by Morgan Rose (January 6, 2003) Free Labor, Constrained State, by Morgan Rose (April 1, 2002) How to Reduce Unemployment, If We Want, by Morgan Rose (October 15, 2001) In Defense of Malthus, by Morgan Rose (September 16, 2002) Information, Prices, and Socialism's Flaws, by Morgan Rose (May 13, 2001) Implications of Costly Information, by Morgan Rose (April 22, 2001) Patent Laws and the War on Good Drugs, by Morgan Rose (November 26, 2001) Paying for Farm Subsidies, by Morgan Rose (January 7, 2002) Risk versus Uncertainty, or Mr. Slate versus Great-Aunt Matilda, by Morgan Rose (November 5, 2001) Shedding Light on Market Power, by Morgan Rose (December 2, 2002) What Malthus Missed, and Attacks on Individualists, by Morgan Rose (October 28, 2002) Frédéric Bastiat, by Sheldon Richman Richard Cantillon, by Henry Higgs Frank H. Knight, by Ross Emmett Gustave de Molinari, by David Hart Jean-Baptiste Say, by David Hart Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy, by David Hart Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, by David Hart Many additional annotated bibliographies can be found in these articles: Literature of Liberty (highly-researched annotated bibliographies by economist or topic) Biography pages of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (brief highlights, top economists) Biographies and topics in Lalor's Cyclopaedia of Political Science (pre-1900 subjects and biographies, many with extensive bibliographies.) History of Economic Thought (HET): Alphabetical Index (excellent bibliographical and biographical material covering a comprehensive list of economists)