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Rocky Balboa and Black Market Lenders
The Importance of the Interlocutor
The Instrumental Value of Liberty
Vacant Lots and Opportunity Cost
Search Costs, Markets, and Discoveries
Pyrrhonian Skepticism on the Badness of Death
Cultural Appropriation: Not Ipso Facto Wrong
Empirical Validation of IO Theory
The Liberating Power of Beauty
Platonic Justice: The Intrinsic and Ultimate Good
Berserk: A Lesson in Amorality
Plato's Republic: Not All Bad.
Wisdom = Knowledge + Acknowledgement
Life’s Been Good (by Joe Walsh)
Billy Joel fans, please sit down.
Architecture: A Microcosm of NYC's Diversity
Defending At-Will Employment on Labor Day
On Anaximenes's Theory of Change
Roadside Flowers, Repeated Games, and the Impartial Spectator
Trade Contra Alienation: A Personal Anecdote
Don Lavoie, the Knowledge Problem, &c.
Re: "Friendship in Aristotle and Adam Smith"
Montaigne's "On Friendship": Part II
Happy Warriors Contra Sourpusses
In Memoriam: David Sohmer Svahn
NYC Subway Fare Hikes Are Fair
Taylor Swift Should Charge More for Eras
A Suboptimal Equilibrium: Night Life
Vienna and New York: High- and Low-Trust Cities
The Declaration as Apologia for Revolution
(Not Enough) Cocaine in the White House
Bill Buckley Contra Demagoguery
Coasian Bargaining. . . in real life!
Charlotte Brontë on Dependence and Love
Naive Regressions and Weak Causal Claims
Video Games, Inflation, and Price Discrimination
McFlation defies the "Greedflation" Narrative
Inherit the Wind: A Defense of the Individual Mind
The Benevolent Traffic Cops of Hanover
Unexpected Horizontal Integration
Barter, Bundling, and Price Discrimination
The Importance of Commutative Justice
Metal Gear Rising: Raiden's Cartesian Philosophy
Hurting People to Save People?
To be relatively rich and absolutely poor or absolutely rich and relatively poor?
Don't Discount Switching Costs
Should All Services Be Monetized?
Berserk: Dreams, Independence, and Friendship
Appreciating the Optimism of "Everything Everywhere All At Once"
Concluding the Hazlitt Fellowship
Amor Fati: A Double-Edged Sword
Appreciating the Modern Basket of Consumer Goods
Considering Hume's Copy Principle
How Far Does a Little Ignorance Go for Pricing Power?
Market-Preserving Federalism: US and China
Emerson: History, Fiction, and Biography
Comparing the Performance and Access to Capital of Chinese Private Firms and SOEs
Tentative Research Plan re: Market-Preserving Federalism in the US and China
The Irrelevance of Aggregate Differences to Cartesian Individualism
Rent-Seeking is... Compatible with Growth?
The Futility of Evading One's Final Cause
The Necessity of Reliable, Cheap Energy
Puss in Boots Finds the Meaning in Life
The Importance of Being a Happy Warrior
Hannah Arendt: Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship
Incomplete Arbitrage of Sanitary Products
ChatGPT and the Distribution of Income
Worried about Chinese Industrial Policy? Don't Be.
Negative Beliefs and Suboptimal Outcomes
Adverse Incentive Effects of Competition?
The Hard Budget Constraint and Writing
A Little Distance Goes a Long Way... for Pricing Power
Viewpoint Epistemology and Jane Eyre
Attack on Titan: the Absurdity of Collectivism
Productivity, Utility, and the Knowledge Economy
TikTok Panic and the Physical Fallacy
The Marginal Quest for Liberty
New York State Nurses Association Strike
Economic Ideology in the 20th Century