The browser tabs. I think they're conspiring against me. They're multiplying. I have to get rid of them, before they get rid of me. ...

The morning's worthies! And a couple shockers too.  Best news in rather some time. I'd want to see it extended out over a larger sam...

The worthies on a very much belated closing of the tabs: Nice roundup in Nature on psychology's problems in social priming A promisin...

Reason Magazine has a wonderful tribute to Gordon Tullock by Michael Munger . The steering wheel with the spike on this blog's masthead...

Anne Krueger will be providing this year's Condliffe Memorial Lecture at Canterbury University.   I don't know if I can make it d...

Suppose that you were a Republican Congressman who were faithful to the Constitution and believed that President Trump should be impeached f...

XKCD's spider explainer has been making the rounds. And one part reminded me of Gordon Tullock. In 2009, the Back River Wastewater T...

Gordon Tullock saw the equilibrium in Competing for Aid: the most pitiable beggar will be the one drawing the rent, and so all will compete ...

Question 2 on the take-home exam my undergraduate students in public choice are now writing: On Monday, the Nobel Committee will announce ...

Don't give money to mutilated children if you want to discourage child mutilation. Sounds terrible? It's true. At least in places ...

I'm not sure that Wellington Council, and the other local bodies, are setting out to create rents for property owners in soon-to-be-desi...

Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won this year's Economics Nobel. The prize was awarded "for the theory of stable allocations and t...

Two new papers help make the case for Tullock's Nobel. Charles Rowley traces Tullock's intellectual legac y. Rowley teams up with ...

Conflicting reports emerge on whether Stephen Harper is really prepared to open up the Canadian Dairy cartel. This is understandable: there ...