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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Economic Theory

July 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Obama and 'The Wealth of Nations'

After listening to his litany of economic excuses, it's clear the president's reading list should include Adam Smith...
June 20, 2012 | Financial Times (registration required)

I come to praise Ms Merkel not to bury her

Listening to Anglo-American über-Keynesians a first-time visitor to the eurozone might be tempted to pose three questions, in rising order of bemusement...
June 14, 2012 | Education Next

In Remembrance of Elinor Ostrom: the political scientist who won the Nobel prize in economics

I cannot better express my appreciation for her life and work than by re-posting what I said at the time she became the first woman–and the first political scientist–to win the Nobel prize in economics...
June 8, 2012 | John Batchelor Show

John Taylor on the John Batchelor Show

John Taylor, Hoover, in re: Hayek and the rule of rules needed to restore confidence and certainty in a troubled economy...
June 6, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Jumpstart the Economy!

Return to first principles: limited government, markets, incentives, rule of law, and predictability...
June 1, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Rules for America's Road to Recovery

As Hayek taught us, predictable policies will help restore economic prosperity and preserve freedom...
May 23, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Why Capitalism?

Because it’s the only system that maximizes growth and personal freedom...
May 22, 2012 | Economics One

Big Mac and Big Macro

In his presidential address this year before the American Economic Association, Princeton economist Orley Ashenfelter provides an interesting and novel way to calculate and compare real wages over time and across countries...
February 12, 2012 | Becker-Posner Blog

Is Capitalism in Crisis?

...[W]hile certain aspects of the economic organization of capitalist countries like the United States should be changed to reduce the chances of future severe recessions, it remains true that economies which are competitive and capitalistic have the best prospects for sizable long-run economic growth...
January 31, 2012 | EconLog

Report on the Austrian Economics Conference, 1975

Many people have written about the first Austrian economics conference, the one held in 1974. I remember it well and have many reminiscences...