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I thought I'd muscle in on Mungo's turf and post about a guaranteed income for all Americans. In principle, I'm in favor. Shal...

Holy cow, why so much hatin' on Angus? Look, the welfare economics case for free trade could be built on (a) the Pareto criterion, or (b...

People I am happy to announce that K.G. Mungowitz will be in Oklahoma later this month: (click on the pic for a more glorious image). Thanks...

Today's NY Times travel section is all about Latin America. Mrs. Angus and I have spent a fair amount of time there, so I thought I...

I am not a big fan of the "must get 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff" electoral system in Presidential Democracies. Consider the ...

Holy half-wit, Batman! This person has zero concept of opportunity cost. Hard to tell, exactly, but I think the implied value of this pers...

An interesting new NBER working paper by Aizenman and Marion ( ungated version here ), tries to figure out how much we will use inflation to...