Peter Gordon's Blog

With election-year nuttiness about to peak this evening, it is time to refer to Leanard E. Read's proposal to pick our leaders by lotte...

Having spent $300-million per mile to build LA's rump Red Line, LA's leaders now want to spend another billion dollars to extend it....

Gregg Easterbrook's The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse is worth reading. While Simon and Lomborg and oth...

Most of the popular media (and others) have been taken on by the cachet of "smart growth" and the many dumb ideas that it includes...

The National Debt Clock puts the U.S. national debt at $7,394,068,208,622.52 as of 8:27:10 PM GMT, Sep 26, 2004. It will soon hit $10 trill...

The sprawl-causes-obesity silliness has become a growth industry and we now have the inevitable sprawl-and-health follow-up. Life is too sho...

By now, we all know that long-run forecasts are a fool's errand and that all of the doomsday forecasts have been wrong. We also know tha...

It is hard not to like the WSJ's coverage of today's big non-event, World Car-Free Day. The piece says it all. Here it is: "...

The legacy of Julian Simon roars on. Bjorn Lomborg's work is well known, the World Bank and others are chiming in with relevant internat...

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." So goes the old joke. Now, researchers at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institut...

The World Bank's "Doing Business in 2005" includes estimates of how much a country's annual economic growth would gain by...

If we stoop to generalize U.S. politics in terms of a simple left-right spectrum, it appears that many on the left honestly see themselves a...

What is the Zeitgeist to do with data from the BLS that we are not all overworked wage slaves? We'll have to see. Most social scienc...

The recent confab of economics Nobelists has produced copy that has appeared in various places. The WSJ's Fredrick Kempe offers this int...

The working masses of the industrialized world never quite rallied to the Marxist cause in the way that Marx-Lenin-Che and so many western i...

The evidence on U.S. income mobility is documented as well as intuitive. On the latter, other things equal, the U.S. is immigrants' fir...

Anthony Downs' insight re rational ignorance is now thought to describe, both, how we acquire and how we process data that pertain to th...

Many smart people (and many others) refer to the Bush tax cuts as "the most regressive in American history." Yet, many of the same...

Just when I was becoming a gullible consumer of the NY Times' Sunday travel supplement, they feature "Your Car's Here, on Track...

Libertarians seem to split on school choice. Some like the idea of empowering parents (especially the poorest) and injecting competition int...