Sitemap - 2006 - David Friedman’s Substack

Wanted: Economics Stories

Why Do We Give Gifts?

Global Warming: Confusing Moral and Practical Arguments

Dishonest Words

Lieberman for President?

A Tactic for Libertarians

Getting it Wrong

Stores as Art

The Mont Pelerin Society, Milton Friedman, and the World

M.F.

Darwin, Reproduction and Religion

Academic Tabu

Balance of Power

Concerning Status

Private Schools for the Poor

One Cheer for China

What’s Wrong With Steroids?

Eugenics and Libertarianism

Obesity, Wireheads, and the case for and Against Paternalism

Why Bureaucrats don't Maximize their Budgets

Score One for Richard Epstein

It's Worth Checking

Are Children Giffen Goods: An Economic Puzzle

Should Irrational Preferences Count?

Pornography and rape

The Economics of Status

Drugs for Africa: A Modest Proposal

Compulsory Licensing: A Confusion of Arguments

Mind Drugs

Gift Economy x 2

Some Folk Are Never Satisfied

Commitment Strategies vs Highjacking

Visual Processing and the Immortality of the Soul

The Origin of a Novel

Illegal vs Unconstitutional: NSA, FISA, and all that

I'm back

Drug Delivery

What an Electric Vehicle Costs

What Matters and Why?

Why Do We Tip?

Talk Radio Ads

Some Things Never Change

Lying with Statistics: A Second Case

Lying with Statistics: Today's Example

Successful Lies

Old News: Friedman Contra Rothbard

Usenet as an Information source: Example

The Ritalin Puzzle

Recycled Worries: Ed Schultz v Daniel Webster

Condi Rice and Walt Whitman

The Death of Copyright, New Art Forms, and World of Warcraft

Amazon as Marketing Data

Planning Too Far Ahead

Schools, Cameras and Computers

Can Judges be Criminally Negligent?

The NSA's Day in Court?

Product I Would Like To See

Politics as Humor

Why Mexico?

Wanted: Bad Economics

Doing the Right Thing

Revealed Preference

Medical Prophecy

Why Are We Different?

My New Toy

Hardwired Tribalism

Immigrant Education: A Query

Welfare and Immigration: The Flip Side of the Argument

Tell Me It Isn't True

It's In The Bookstores

Talk Radio vs Usenet

Should Contracts Made Under Duress be Enforceable?

Are Small State Voters Overrepresented in the Presidential Election?

Peak Oil?

Wise Children

Concerning Talk Show Hosts

An Athenian Puzzle

Plus Ca Change

Athenian Wisdom

Announcement

Rational Bigotry?

Christmas Books: 2

The FISA Puzzle

Metaphors and the Constitution: Wiretapping as Search

Why is Tort Law like Accounting?

Understanding Accounting: The Short Version

Unschooling: The Advantage of the Real World

Home Schooling: Family as Peer Group

Christmas Books: 1

Problems with Blogger

The Case for Unschooling

Calling All Dentists

How to Sue the National Security Agency

Moral Luck: Part IV (and last)

The King's Friends

Moral Luck: Part III

Moral Luck: Part II

Moral Luck: Part I

Buttons and Bumperstickers

An Externality Exercise

The Economics of Vice and Virtue

Why Do Gangs Specialize in Crime?

Ottoman Thoughts

The Best Revenge: A Platitude

That was fast

The Social Scientist’s Dream—As Close as Your Keyboard