The Grumpy Economist

Walter Russell Mead has a nice essay in Tablet on California. This excerpt struck me. You too were probably dragged through "Grapes o...

At Project Syndicate  essay, with Jon Hartley. It's not the first, and it won't be the last on the issue!  Now that surging inflatio...

How much does climate change* actually affect GDP? How much will currently-envisioned climate policies reduce that damage, and thereby raise...

I learned a lot. The book is very interesting. Direct link in case the following embeds don't work.    

I did an EconTalk Podcast with Russ Roberts. The general subject is economic growth, the reasons it seems to be slipping away from us and...

Both Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton want to lower the cost and, presumably, increase the amount of child care. A quick economics quiz: What is t...

"Blueprint for America" is a collection of essays, organized, edited and inspired by George P. Shultz. You can get an overview a...

Above, a lovely graph from The Conversation . A common story says that opposition to immigration comes from people in high-immigrant commu...

Many commenters compare Brexit to the American revolution. I think the constitutional convention is a better analogy for the moment and chal...

Scott Summner posted this beautiful exchange between Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. on immigration. Direct link  (youtube). Scot...

Alex Tabarrok has a very nice and very short piece at the Atlantic,  The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely . (HT Marginal Revolutio...

Illustration by Andrew Rae, source New York Times Adam Davidson has a very nice New York Times Magazine article, " Debunking the M...

Alex Tabarrok has a splendid post " the case for open borders " on Marginal Revolution. Along the way he points to " Econom...

Does Economics 101 Apply to Immigration ? by Robert VerBruggen, a review of George Borjas' new book Immigration Economics . The questi...

Following up on my last immigration post , a thought occurred to me. The most common objection is the claim that letting immigrants in wil...

Hoover's Peregrine asked me to write an essay with the title, "What is the optimal number of immigrants to the U.S?"  ( Origin...

WSJ Op-Ed on immigration, with extra comments.  Original here . Think Government Is Intrusive Now? Wait Until E-Verify Kicks In Sourc...

I wrote a short essay on immigration for Hoover's "Advancing A Free Society" series. It's here , and reproduced below.  Th...