Sex, Drugs and Economics

People lead complicated lives. They have many competing goals, and have to trade off between those goals. Economists assume that they choose...

Many countries, including almost all developed countries and many developing countries, are now experiencing below-replacement fertility, wi...

In 2024, I reviewed Alan Bollard's book  Economists at War , noting that it sat awkwardly in-between being a biography and an economic ...

In 2018, I mocked the government for their insistence that an increase in fuel tax was an excise, not a tax. Since I'm a firm believer ...

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week: Babiarz et al.  (with ungated earlier version here ) show that most of China’s...