I love the variety of niches found in free markets, except when I don’t. A professorial friend...
James Hanley
James Hanley is a two-bit college professor who'd rather be canoeing.
The issue of the new airport security requirements is still rolling around in my mind. I left...
Presumably because I’m beginning to unconsciously prep for my annual empirical research methods course, methodological questions have...
National markets that only thirty years ago seemed comfortable oligopolies–such as America’s television and car markets–are now...
This is a long game, not a short game.
There are all kinds of good arguments against living vicariously through the success or failure of one’s...
I quite commonly read blog commenters who argue that academics know less about the really important issues...
Today I clicked the unsubscribe link on an email from an academic products company and got the...
Is this still true? Was it ever true? There really is such a thing as freedom here...
In my vigorous debate with Michael Heath (both here and elsewhere) about the value and legitimacy of...
Here’s the best news to come out of the 2010 elections: Fewer than one in five self-funded...
I’m not a big fan of those videos with the really obnoxious computer-generated voices. But of course...
Not everyone like my claim that U.S. policy is creating an adverse investment climate. So here’s this...
A thought that every post-election pundit should ponder. Economist Charles Plot talking to law professor Michael Levine....
In a recent post, E.D. Kain ponders the issue of labels, particularly self-labeling. I would just note...
Newly elected U.S. Representative Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) thinks; To be effective in Congress, it is not knowing...
And I am the final member of The One Best Way to join in this merger with...
In my first substantive post I suggested not only that perhaps the stimulus had failed, but that...
One of the concerns expressed in the intense negotiations over our merger (I jest) was whether the...
