Peter Gordon's Blog

"Allocation and Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archives" by Paul Gregory and Mark Harrison (in the Sep, 2005 Journal of E...

There are opinions held and opinions upheld. The zero-sum view of the world is an opinion held with uncanny consistency by those whom Tom So...

"Fair competiton" and "social justice" are staples of the rhetoric that passes for normal discourse among elite American...

One of our most perceptive writers on modern American cities is Robert Bruegmann, whose Sprawl: A Compact History is now in print. Bob had ...

L.A. politicians (and many others) award exclusive cable franchises to areas throughout the city. Yet they and their fellows at the L.A. Ti...

The October 2005 Reason featured a wonderful discussion on "The Social Responsibility of Business". Milton Friedman, John Mackey ...

For those who require proof, evidence for predominantly left-leaning university faculties keeps accumulating. The interesting part is the de...

To those economists who greatly enjoyed Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel but were made a tad uneasy by the geographical determinis...

Writing about "Remedies for New Orleans" in today's WSJ , Edmund Phelps reiterates his enthusiasm for labor subsidies. "...

Consumers benefit when profit-seekers compete. Citizens, likewise, benefit when rent-seekers (and rent-extractors, e.g., their political lea...

I know very little about Harriet Miers. There is an emerging consensus that she is not distinguished. What else do we know? William Buckley ...

We all know that the rich are getting richer because we read the NY Times and similar outlets. Yet we also know that the relevant data are ...

From today's LA Times : " City OKs Subsidies for Downtown Hotel ... Council agrees to a $290-million package for planned project ...

Private communities with homeowners associations as local governments account for one of the most important migrations in the U.S. today (th...

Walter Williams ("Hurricane evacuation lessons") notes that when ordering motorists to evacuate, do not at the same time threaten...

Will high gasoline prices come out of people's wallets or will they find ways to accommodate? Time and elasticities will tell. Travel s...

Today in the NY Times , Nina Munk writes about the Forbes 400 ("Don't Blink. You'll Miss the 258th-Richest American."): ...

"Smart growth" and "smart cities" are all the rage -- and encouraged and even subsidized by all sorts of federal, state ...

Ron Utt and others recently proposed that highway appropriations pork be diverted to Katrina relief and repairs. I blogged about the news f...

The Popperian question ("What evidence would it take for you to change your position?") would be wasted on some. Today's LA T...