31 years old. Married. Two kids under the age of five. That's all you need to know right now. Not much else matters.

Hayek wrote about the importance of "kindliness and a sense of humour, personal modesty, and respect for the privacy and belief in the good intentions of one’s neighbour”. Maybe not the most famous of his ideas, but one that still resonates, especially this week.

Understatement: Modern Freedom Beats Feudal Serfdom (a sign of the times that this needs to be pointed out, & Marian Tupy does it masterfully). open.substack.com/pub/humanprogr…

After finding economic lessons in literature, we're taking the same lens to the movies. Join economist Peter Isztin 🌐🏛 for a salon that explores the power of tradeoffs and incentives on the big screen, from Hitchcock's thrillers to modern blockbusters. interintellect.com/salons/an-econ…

The murder of Iryna Zarutska on a North Carolina train should force America's urbanists to confront an unpleasant truth: Without public order and safety, Americans will NOT embrace transit-centric cities. noahpinion.blog/p/good-cities-…

A problem with responding to an assassination by harping on what you think was wrong with the victim is it sends the message that the assassin had at least a partial point— that the victim’s acts made the shooting less wrong, even if it was still wrong. joshbarro.com/p/your-dislike…

I disagree. We are poor judges of what is "politically feasible." If we never say what the promised land looks like -- consumption taxes, say -- and content ourselves with fiddling with what we think is "politically feasible," then we shall surely never get there. The 8 hour day,

The man who made this graph (and tons of other relevant ones) is 101 and still has not received the Nobel prize in economics. Just hand it to him -- this is becoming a joke!

Correct. But a fee on top of the existing system is not such a good idea.

Mostly good responses to wannabe-gotcha questions

IN 3 DAYS✨ What do your favorite films, from classic thrillers to blockbusters, reveal about incentives in our world? Join economist Peter Isztin 🌐🏛 for a salon that turns cinema into an economics classroom (but fun!). Bring your faves! interintellect.com/salons/an-econ…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20671 Human Capital Accumulation Across Space Klaus Desmet , Dávid Krisztián Nagy CREI, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg ow.ly/4e4S50X1jtS #CEPR_DE #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_MG #EconTwitter

A reminder that buying a house because you want your children to be educated in its school district amounts to shopping for schools just as much as using a voucher amounts to shopping for schools. Vouchers give poorer families some of the freedom that richer families already have

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America’s New Right is European, old, and should be abandoned in favor of American conservatism. reason.com/2025/09/26/the…

Snippet from final exam for Gary Becker's class in 1988 this is what people mean when they say that Chicago Price Theory is very different from standard microeconomics

That's a good thing, btw.

I have a new paper with Luis Rayo on a key, simple question: will AI end careers as we know them? Link below. We all experience AIs usefulness every day: AI writing code, drafting legal memos, and analyzing spreadsheets. AI can already do many of the tasks that young people

🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!

In other news, some heterodox folks are irate.