"Mere Economics" is Here!
Mere Economics: Lessons for and from the Ordinary Business of Life releases today!
Order your copy here.
Ideally, the book can serve as a supplement for introductory econ courses.
Topic
mere economics
A collection of 10 issues
Econ 101 Perishes for Want of Wonder
Here's my attempt to recapture the wonder of social cooperation by in my Econ 101 class by asking a question each day about the social order:
DATE
TOPIC
READING
Jan
13
Welcome to Econ 101: What do you
need to succeed in this course?
N/A
Jan
15
Mere Economics Isn't - Social Engineering
In this series of posts, I'll describe five things that mere economics is not. Note, this post was written with Scott Burns and was originally published at The Independent Institute.
Social Engineering
This leeriness of making pinpoint forecasts also helps explain why economists are so wary of large-scale
Mere Economics Isn't - Forecasting
In this series of posts, I'll describe five things that mere economics is not. Note, this post was written with Scott Burns and was originally published at The Independent Institute.
Forecasting
If your only impression of economics comes from talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News, it’
Mere Economics Isn't - Ethics
In this series of posts, I'll describe five things that mere economics is not. Note, this post was written with Scott Burns and was originally published at The Independent Institute.
Ethics
If ideologies speak to political values specifically, then ethics speaks to the values that govern all aspects
The Progress Puzzle
What follows is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Mere Economics, posted originally on my personal blog, A Fuller's Soap.
Pieces That Don’t Fit: Slavery, Imperialism, and Colonialism
Let’s start with pieces that don’t fit and aren’t part of the Progress Puzzle. Our ancestors
Mere Economics Isn't - Ideology
In this series of posts, I'll describe five things that mere economics is not. Note, this post was written with Scott Burns and was originally published at The Independent Institute.
Ideology
Economics also isn’t an ideological discipline.
Ideologies tell people what policies they should support to achieve
Mere Economics Isn't - Psychology
In this series of posts, I'll describe five things that mere economics is not. Note, this post was written with Scott Burns and was originally published at The Independent Institute.
Legend has it that an art collector once asked Michaelangelo to describe the challenges he faced in sculpting
#FreeBookFriday: More Foundations of Mere Economics
Last week, Art posted some links to free books that form the foundations of our thinking in Mere Economics.
In that spirit, here are a few more.
Frederic Bastiat, Economic Sophisms. The book is a "pre-refutation" of the current embrace of protectionism. No economist wrote with as much
Remembering Walter E. Williams
The great Walter "Excellent" Williams passed away a little more than four years ago.
Here's my tribute to him from a few years back.
Walter E. Williams, prolific author, piercing cultural commentator, old-school economist (that’s a good thing), devoted husband, loving father, and long-time friend