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Understanding Shopper Challenges 🛒
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The Lacking Guidelines – Econlib
On my (endlessly expanding) “to-read” list is Nicholas Wade’s book The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations. The book seems like it can offer insight...
Digital ID within the Cradle of Liberty (My Final EconLog...
On September 26, the British prime minister’s office announced that “A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people...
Understanding Concept: Labor Market Version
Recently, the Trump Administration announced that H-1B applications would face a new $100,000 fee (in addition to the already existing fees, not to mention legal fees). The H-1B visa allows...
Is The Housing Affordability Disaster an Phantasm?
Average home prices remain very close to the all-time highs reached at the beginning of the year. Accordingly, public opinion surveys show rising concern about the issue of housing affordability,...
When Godzilla Breaks Home windows – Econlib
It’s morning in Tokyo. You’re sitting on your balcony with a cup of coffee or tea, enjoying the rising sun over the bay. Birds chirp. All is peaceful—until that peace...
2025 Nobel: Development Via Expertise and Tradition
Today, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Philippe Aghion (London School of Economics), and Peter Howitt (Brown University) “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” ...
An Instinct Check – Econlib
The conclusions we reach about the world are, to a large extent, influenced by our underlying intuitions. Various writers have discussed how our immediate sense of how the world works...
Free Commerce and Dynamic Effectivity
…for the economy to function well, you don’t just need good property rights, you also need what we could call, somewhat vaguely, “economic freedoms.” You need labor mobility; you need...
