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Will the Decline in Union Membership be Reversed?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, January 25, 2009

In 2007, the House of Representatives passed the Employee Free Choice Act, a law to promote unionism...

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Technology Gets a Piece of Stimulus

with Robert E. Hallvia New York Times
Sunday, January 25, 2009

The time-tested way for governments to create jobs in a hurry is to pour money into old-fashioned public works projects like roads and bridges...

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Google ready to pursue its agenda in Washington

with Bill Whalenvia Los Angeles Times
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- Another inauguration took place in Washington this week -- Google Inc. officially became a political power player...

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The Shadow Banking System

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Thursday, January 22, 2009

I recently finished Krugman's The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008...

Analysis and Commentary

Government Spending Is No Free Lunch

by Robert J. Barrovia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Back in the 1980s, many commentators ridiculed as voodoo economics the extreme supply-side view that across-the-board cuts in income-tax rates might raise overall tax revenues...

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The World's Smallest Violin

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Life is tough, isn't it?...

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No hurry

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

From the AP: It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, according to congressional economists...

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Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar

by Russ Robertsvia EconTalk
Monday, January 19, 2009

Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--why open source software development has been so successful, the culture of open source, under what conditions open source is likely to thrive and not to thrive, and the Hayekian nature of the open source process...

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Where do the American people stand on the stimulus?

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, January 19, 2009

In this post, I speculated that many (most) Americans were skeptical of the stimulus package...

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Doom and Gloom

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Monday, January 19, 2009

In a comment to this earlier post, Charlie writes: For all of Russ's doom and gloom, I would love to see some actual predictions, something specific and on record...

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