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Caplan on the Gas-Tax Holiday (by Don Boudreaux)

Think the proposed gas-tax holiday is wacky idea? My GMU colleague -- and EconLog's -- Bryan Caplan gives you good reason to think again. (...)

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: taxes
Rational Depending on Context (by Don Boudreaux)

Bryan Caplan's book The Myth of the Rational Voter . I'm a big fan. (...)

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: myths and fallacies, politics
In Defense of Usury (by Don Boudreaux)

Especially in light of the renewed efforts to regulate the terms that credit-card issuers are allowed to offer to borrowers, Jeremy Bentham's short little classic Defence of Usury is well worth...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: prices, regulation
Nye on wine (and war and taxes) (by Russell Roberts)

The latest EconTalk is John Nye talking about his book, War, Wine, and Taxes. John has many interesting insights into the political economy of trade, the history of trade policy, and why Ricardo's...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: podcast, trade
The Coming Recession? (by Don Boudreaux)

Along with persons far more insightful than me, I offer a few thoughts on the current economic downturn in the new issue of Reason. (...)

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: current affairs, politics
Fair Advice (by Don Boudreaux)

I've never been invited to deliver a commencement address. And I probably should never be so invited, for I already know the title I would choose: "Don't Change the World." I would explain that, it's...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: the economy
On Smuggling and Law (by Don Boudreaux)

My colleague Walter Williams offers great good sense here. When legislation is harmful -- such as when it attempts to restrict the carrying out of peaceful exchange among consenting adults -- it is...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: law, nanny state, regulation
Seeing Past the Chicken Littles (by Don Boudreaux)

Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi is superb. (...)

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: current affairs, politics, the economy
Unreasonable Reasonableness (by Don Boudreaux)

Here's a letter that I sent today to the Wall Street Journal: Adhering to the general practice of saying that free trade has both winners and losers, you introduce two letters on Nafta with the...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: myths and fallacies, seen and unseen, the future, trade
There are no prostitutes in Israel (by Russell Roberts)

Early this morning, I turned my radio on and heard the very end of an interview on talk radio. I picked it up in mid-paragraph and here is what I heard, an imperfect transcript from a half-awake...

Started in Cafe Hayek • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: politics