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In this audio from VoxEU.org Sir Partha Dasgupta of the University of Cambridge talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about why some countries are rich and others are poor. He argues that trust is the fundamental building block of societies – without it, there...
Wenli Li and Michelle J. White on Bankruptcy, mortgage default, and foreclosure. Did US bankruptcy laws exacerbate the housing crisis? This column says that a 2005 reform that made declaring personal bankruptcy more difficult increased mortgage...
Peter Boettke of George Mason University and author of Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica), talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Bloomington School--the political...
John Cassidy offers, in the Wall Street Journal, this article in which he reviews the ideas of Arthur Cecil Pigou and their application to the recent financial crisis. At one point Cassidy writes about Pigou's most famous idea that the social and...
I enjoy this blog and read it often. I find the combination of posts and the comments made very much in tune with many of my own thoughts. Yet Anti Dismal manages to express them in a way which I cannot.
