Peter Gordon's Blog

Take pricing off the table and the alternatives are not promising, much worse than tying just one hand behind your back. This is true for al...

There is cringe-worthy economics coming out of Washington on a regular basis. This morning, one reporter without a hint of irony referred to...

Many of us are overwhelmed by reality and retreat to "bubbles".  Charles Murray deserves great credit for popularizing the idea....

Experimentation is a wonderful thing -- as long as it is coupled with private risk-taking.   Here is The Economist's report of the sta...

Here is Trump economist Peter Navarro explaining the benefits of protectionism to Paul Solman and the PBS NewsHour audience. The best (wors...

The NY Times notes: "L.A. Drivers on the 405 Ask: Was $1.6 Billion Worth It?" Good question. Also interesting amid the clamor ...

Recent LA Times coverage of California's "climate fight" has caused a stir because the writer actually mentioned a downside. ...

Wendell Cox points us to this essay by Walter Russell Mead: "The Path to Mt. Rushmore? Trump's Third Ring of Suburbs." Mead ...

"Industrial policy" is the polite term. Trumpian "bullying" is more accurate. The Carrier deal agreed to last week is a...

The "fix infrastructure" chorus is bi-partisan. That may be a problem. Here is James Surowiecki's Nov 28 New Yorker column. ...

I share Arnold Kling's enthusiasm for Martin Gurri's The Revolt of the Public . Here is Kling's review. When you read the book,...

When I write about cities and cite the bottom-up as well as the top-down forces that shape cities, I usually end up with the conclusion that...

My favorite theme is human progress.  Many of us are blessed to be living in a time and place where it is so apparent. But this does not mea...

I briefly cited Edmund Phelps' wonderful economic history, Mass Flourishing , in this post a while back. A brief version of his argume...

Last January, I was temporarily cheered by the LA Times'   uncharacteristically critical examination of LA's rail transit madness. ...

Over at Cafe Hayek, they post these three outstanding videos . Watch and enjoy. Very stiff competition for those of us who try to teach this...

It may be time to give up on hopes for a Kotlikoff-Leamer or a Johnson-Weld victory -- or even a non-majority in the Electoral College. A...

Everyone's favorite question about China is: how long can they keep it [amazing growth] up? Performance following the Deng Xiaoping refo...

There are many things one can say about the two major party candidates for President but no one has suggested that either is Churchillian. L...

Here are eleven policy suggestions to boost the economy for the next president from Brookings researchers. These are all good and we have h...