A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.

Simple economics explains why the U.S. can accept many more migrants from poorer countries.

Cepheid today announced it has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2, a rapid molecular diagnostic test for...

Presidential candidate Javier Milei has some unorthodox policy ideas, but at least one is simple common sense: dollarizing his country’s economy.

A vast new deposit on the Nevada-Oregon border could help ease geopolitical tensions and limit the effects of climate change.

Although public officials in the area say the virus is contained for now, some in the tech industry fear the virus will spread out of control.

Are we in for a decades-long dip in teen mental health?

Plus, his bizarre strategy for getting over a fear of flying.

The quality of the opposition is deteriorating.

Is he secretly the best young economist today?

From my email: The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to the Economics Blogs Web Archive. We consider...

Unveiling the dangers of just trying to muddle through

I have had fringe contact with more epidemiology than usual as of late, for obvious reasons, and I do understand this is only one corner of the discipline.  I don’t mean this as a complaint dump,...

One country has done more than any other to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Institutions of higher learning must be devoted to education and innovation above all else.

The debate over the UK’s budget proposal could use fewer adjectives and more numbers.

Rather than talk about moonshots we might take collectively, let me go small scale and lay out the "moonshot" I have tried to

A top marginal income tax rate of 70 percent is bad economics and even worse politics.

India is by far the world’s most significant source of undiscovered and undervalued skills.

It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are...

You might be surprised by what occupies Daniel Kahneman’s thoughts these days.

Martin Shkreli, entrepreneur and investor, talks about what Sam Bankman-Fried’s potential life in prison could look like. As a former white-collar criminal, ...

Web 3.0 is mostly forgotten now, but the ideas behind it will regain their relevance as bots become more common.

Due out May 17, you can pre-order here for Amazon, here for Barnes & Noble. The subtitle is How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, and my co-author is the Daniel Gross...

What if more parents, when convicted of crimes, were sentenced to house arrest for the benefit of their children?

I thought it useful to sum up my current views in a single paragraph, here goes: I don’t view “optimal length of shutdown” arguments compelling, rather it is about how much pain the political process...

Most U.S. institutions of higher education don’t even try to live up to their egalitarian ideals.

Having tracked the libertarian “movement” for much of my life, I believe it is now pretty much hollowed out, at least in terms of flow.  One branch split off into Ron Paul-ism and less savory alt...

This episode of the a16z Podcast features the rare combination of a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in conversation, together, with economist Tyler Cowen (chair of economics at George...

Longstanding complaints about the barriers women face in the economics profession are beginning to resonate within the male-dominated field.

New research shows that real estate is both a better and safer investment than previously believed.

From Australia to Europe, the signs are multiplying that conservative populism is on the rise.

The day begins with presentations from the Hackathon finalists. Then we'll we look at how Ethereum is being used around the world, what's next for Enterprise...

What do Presidents Javier Milei of Argentina and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador — as well as UFC champion Renato Moicano — have in common? They all admire an obscure libertarian economist.

As of today, we at Mercatus, led by me, are formally initiating a new project called Emergent Ventures. Here is the Mercatus press release.  Here is my short podcast on the venture.  Here is the...

I took notes on my phone, so any mistakes are mine. These notes should be treated as paraphrases and not as direct quotes, since I was not…

The awards are attracting less attention and declining in status.

1. “This means the watching of pornographic videos generates as much CO2 per year as is emitted by countries such as Belgium, Bangladesh and Nigeria.”  Link here. 2. Should we add any countries as...

How institutions shape the fate of nations.

The Great Barrington Declaration strikes the wrong tone and stresses the wrong points.

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals

You may have read that the recent Executive Order also applied to those who hold dual citizenship in any of the specified nations.  I haven’t yet seen it fully explained how pernicious this is.  A...

Americans are going to need some useful distractions over the next few months.

The resilience of cryptocurrency has a lot to do with the volatility of the real world.

The libertarian professor is on a mission to inform and educate so that people can make themselves more productive

After reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules, a few people asked me what my list would look like.  I would stress that what follows is not a universal or eternally valid account, but rather a few ideas...