Do I Deserve What I Have? Part III
In part I of this series, I argued that I do not deserve my standard…
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Price Gouging Could Actually Fix Our Face Mask Shortage
If we don’t let prices for essential goods rise, we can’t incentivize making more of…
Eulogy for my Father
This is an expanded version of what I said at my father’s funeral. He passed…
The Economist as Scapegoat
A lot of things are wrong with America these days. A rising suicide rate. Opioid…
Health Care Without (much) Government
I’m going to imagine what health care would look like if government played a much…
Health Care Lessons from Dr. Keith Smith
This week’s EconTalk with Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma has provoked a…
Transience and Transcendence
Alan Lightman wonders if anything transient can have meaning. No matter how long we live,…
Am I a Market Fundamentalist?
I’ve noticed a growing tendency for economists and others to critique “market fundamentalism/neoliberalism/free market dogma.”…
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Does Ridesharing Increase Traffic Deaths?
In recent years, economics has become much more empirical and less theoretical. It is not…
Adam Smith, Loneliness, and the Limits of Mainstream Economics
Big data is all the rage. We have become increasingly obsessed in economics and in…
Do I Deserve What I Have? Part II
The Case of Pure Socialism In Part I of this essay, I tried to make…
Do I Deserve What I Have? Part I
A Socialist Thought-Experiment How am I lucky to have the career I have and the…
My Trip to Pittsburgh
On Monday night of this week, I received an email from my synagogue saying that…
The Lonely Man with a Gun
Another lonely man with a gun has murdered innocents. Whether you call it mass murder…
Do the Rich Get All the Gains from Economic Growth?
Adjusted for inflation, the US economy has more than doubled in real terms since 1975.…
The Outrage Epidemic – Part II
How the Attention Economy Pushes Politicians to the Extremes Suppose you’re running for office and…
The Story of My Life
For most of my life, I had a particular self-image of myself, a self-image I…
The Outrage Epidemic – Part I
The political atmosphere in America seem to have deteriorated a lot in the last few…
What I’ve Learned from Jordan Peterson
After I interviewed Jordan Peterson on EconTalk, I received a number of unusually thoughtful and…