Rockford College philosophy professor Stephen Hicks asks me some questions. Here's the result. Here are the questions: Why did you become an economist or political-economist? Does liberal society need an economic theory, and if so why? Your books: Key...

David Henderson's salary rose by more than 13 per cent in 2011, the result of a regular adjustment that is part of city policy. Total spending on city council's salaries and expenses went up by 1.6 per cent last year, with Henderson filing the most in...

Russ Roberts has a fascinating video by a great storyteller about why Van Halen had a contract in the 1980s that put a high penalty on having brown M&Ms in the dressing room. I'll leave the reader to watch it. The story reminded me of one my cousin, a...

On a flight from Rochester, New York to Washington Dulles last Friday, I sat beside a young woman who had recently graduated from Penn State and had just started a new job. We got talking about student debt. She told me that her debt from being an...

"This is just to advise them that we are following our practice and the practice of all municipalities, themselves included. "It's not a specific attack against Brockville." The city, meanwhile, is responding with barely a shrug. "There is no...

The airplay data allow me to infer vintage quality back to 1960 and exhibit the following pattern (in Figure 2) - quality rises from 1960 to 1970, then falls and remains flat from 1980 to about 1999, with a small bump up in the mid-1990s. After 2000,...