Marginalia on the ordinary business of life
February 2025
Reading Read, OrganizationallyJanuary 2025
My Letter from Eve MengerIntroducing the “Mere Economics” BlogOctober 2024
Macro “economics”? Organizing the Ordinary Business of LifeSeptember 2024
Rings, Rituals, RoutinesDid Smith, Ricardo, and Mill Toil in Vain?August 2024
Is There a “Property Rights Economics” Canon? Piecing the Progress Puzzle—A “Mere Economics” TeaserJuly 2024
Remembering James C. Scott (1936-2024)Recrudescent Rent ControlThe Owner- “Ship” of Enterprise June 2024
Brewing Business: Production under Prohibition The Tradeoff TangoMay 2024
The Economist’s Treasury April 2024
Hobbesian Horrors and Walmart Wonders—A “Mere Economics” Appetizer March 2024
No Economist is an Island February 2024
The Bourgeosie Hate This One Weird TrickJanuary 2024
This Time isn’t DifferentF.A. Hayek’s Commentary on Genesis December 2023
He Knows if You’ve Been Bad or GoodMy $4,197.25 T-ShirtNovember 2023
The Cartelization of Talent: Implications for GrowthEconomics East of Eden October 2023
The Central Planning Quality QuandaryAll Good Economists Have Read “Human Action”September 2023
The Vanishing Coasean BargainMinimum Wage Mirage Nirvana vs. Now August 2023
Has Austrian Economics Triumphed?Produce PuzzlesJuly 2023
After Shleifer, Who Needs Mises?In Which My Students ImpressEconomies of Scale(s)June 2023
Demsetz in Reverse Free Business Advice Not RotTransaction Cost TyrantsTariffs Make U.S. FatChatGPT-Induced Adjustment at the MarginNot All Apriorism is Created EqualFree the Brand Name Mechanism Strangers with CandyThe Minimum Wage Seesaw May 2023
Does Robinson Crusoe “Own” Stuff?Substitutes EverywhereSuperfluous Discovery—Prohibition EditionSowell-Searching April 2023
Apocalypse Not Free Markets are Regulated MarketsCan Tiny Walmart Survive?The Microfoundations of Unintended ConsequencesMarch 2023
Peter Boettke at the ASSC Doing Well by Doing Good Conspicuous Investment “On Socialism”February 2023
Commerce in Cuneiform “Mere Economics: Lessons for and from the Ordinary Business of Life” January 2023
Remembering Yuri Maltsev (1950-2023)Spoiled RottenThe Paradox of 20th Century Growth—And Other Big QuestionsCompared to What?Freedom’s College December 2022
Remembering the Prince of Property Rights: Yoram Barzel (1931-2022)ChatGPT’s Price Theory Quiz Scrapes a B-Why Don’t We Tip Our Nurse?In Search of Monsters to DestroyRemembering Walter Grinder (1938-2022)November 2022
Francois Mitterand Impoverished France Cowen’s Cryptic ClaimRemembering Michael Maloney (1949-2021)October 2022
A Price-Theoretic Pothole Bargaining over BeautySeptember 2022
Vehicle Inspections Tax the Poor Higgs Remembers Coase Once More with FeelingPower 1, Liberty 0—in 2021 Beyond Scroogenomics August 2022
Diamonds are Forever“Social Cooperation” (1949)—by Ludwig von Mises?Oh, the Places You’ll Go A Secret, Silent Miracle What Problem Were They Solving?July 2022
Law Merchant Denialism The (Renaissance) Art of Rent-Seeking June 2022
Long Live Thomas Sowell! The Micro-Microeconomics of InflationContractual Conundrums Eponymous Enterprise Jobless in Seattle Internet Explorer, RIPA Pig in a Poke Economists on Price Gouging—So-CalledExchange Enigmas May 2022
Markets Work Better Than You Think Institutions and Organizations SyllabiCorporation and LeviathanApril 2022
Poppies and ProsperityWhy (Barber) Wages Rise March 2022
‘X’ Defies ‘Basic Economics’The Best in the Business (Aren’t Actually in Business)February 2022
Frog & Toad Together“Mere Economics” January 2022
The Ownership of ExerciseDecember 2021
Folk Economics in the LabNovember 2021
If Something Exists, It Is PossibleTied to the Mast October 2021
Perishing for Want of Wonder September 2021
Follow the (Economic) Science August 2021
Yes, Virginia—There is an Economic Science Property Rights Economics at 1600 Penn AvenueJuly 2021
Non-Competes Benefit Workers Coase, Cattle, and Other Classics June 2021
Destroying Property to Save Property Coase Goes to War April 2021
Property Rights Pioneer: Remembering Svetozar Pejovich (1931-2021) March 2021
Everyday Economic Errors Murray Rothbard Would Have Been 95 TodayFebruary 2021
Life on the Edge Walter “Excellent” Williams (1936-2020): A Life for Liberty January 2021
Tails to AstonishIntroducing Marginalia!