The worthies, on a long-overdue closing of the browser tabs: Colby Cosh explains to Canadians something Kiwis have known for some time: the...

A closing of some the browser tabs brings a few worthies: Roland Fryer Was Railroaded Brian Easton on the perils of ignoring economics Pay f...

The tabs... there are so many of them. A few notes on the closing of the tabs. Tyler Cowen is excellent on herd immunity.  Those who urge us...

Colby Cosh's latest column would be great fodder for grad classes in Industrial Organisation. We can think about sporting competition...

Posting has been light as other deadlines press. But I have accumulated too many browser tabs. Here are some worthies: Colby Cosh on the c...

Colby Cosh writes on the perils of naming things after politicians in a world in which standards change.  I didn't know that Ontari...

Well, Colby Cosh called this one before it happened, didn't he? Cosh from last week : The point is not that Bismarck [subject of ma...

When it comes to mental illness, the incremental loss “to the economy” of diminished human productivity is only relevant to policy to the d...

Sinclair Davidson spoke against efficient taxes at this year's Mont Pelerin meetings. My summary of that portion of his talk: you wan...

Colby Cosh explains all. It’s disorienting for a Rush fan—someone who was patronizing and defending them when it wasn’t just not cool, but...

Colby Cosh is annoyed with a typical healthist report in Alberta noting the social costs of traffic accidents. Of course a world without t...

Denis Dutton today reminds me of the Tierney bet with Matthew Simmons , which ought to pay off in Tierney's favour by the end of the yea...

Colby Cosh says ban the cheques . Putting party logos on federal government cheques for community projects ... very distasteful. The fact i...

Mankiw's syllabus for his freshman seminar at Harvard. Caplan's Myth of the Rational Voter is on the list. Jeremy Clarkson on the ...

Colby Cosh points me to still more examples of very bad analysis of the costs of drugs: in this case, smoking . The Canadian study seems t...