Posted: Jun 27, 2012 3:55 pm
Marginal Revolution.
A generally freer-market oriented econ blog that is persistently interesting, to me at least. Not really a particular focus other than economics. Here's a link of one of the MR bloggers having a conversation with utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
A generally lefty-ish blog that is also persistently interesting, talking about things like labor issues, foreign policy, law school, and film theory.
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The Agitator
A libertarian blog that focuses on the broken justice system in America, with a focus on the militarization of police forces, police violence, bad incentives in the justice system, etc. It's phenomenally depressing.
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Matthew Yglesias
One of my favorite bloggers, mostly blogs about business and econ.
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EconLog
Probably the most right-wing blog I read.
A generally freer-market oriented econ blog that is persistently interesting, to me at least. Not really a particular focus other than economics. Here's a link of one of the MR bloggers having a conversation with utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer.
The Stiglitz Hypothesis
If you think Sumner-Avent-Yglesias-Soltas thought has taken over the world, Stiglitz shows a blindness to monetary options:
If we want recovery, there is no choice but to rely on fiscal policy.
Not “fiscal policy is better,” but rather “there is no choice.” There is also no explanation.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
A generally lefty-ish blog that is also persistently interesting, talking about things like labor issues, foreign policy, law school, and film theory.
The CEO Whisterer
I know that making fun of [Thomas] Friedman is shooting fish in a barrel, but this is pretty great.
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The Agitator
A libertarian blog that focuses on the broken justice system in America, with a focus on the militarization of police forces, police violence, bad incentives in the justice system, etc. It's phenomenally depressing.
The Cops Stole Our Bail Money
When the friends and family of people arrested for drug crimes bring in cash to bail someone out, police in Brown County, Wisconsin are turning the cash over to a drug task force, which then brings out a drug dog inspect the bills. When the dog alerts, the cops are then seizing the money for the police department, citing state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws.
So the cops keep the money for themselves, and the suspect remains in a jail cell.
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Matthew Yglesias
One of my favorite bloggers, mostly blogs about business and econ.
Apple Gets Sales of Galaxy Tab Blocked in US
The great thing for the world about the iPad is precisely that it clearly was vulnerable to copying and from day one it seemed like there was a chance that Apple's runaway success would be eroded by copycat Android products. That's why to stay on top of the game Apple's had to release two new, successfully better iterations of the iPad while bringing prices down. Similarly, Apple's MacBook Air products have been imitated by Windows Ultrabooks and now thanks to the power of competition Airs are better than ever and they made the new Retina MacBook Pro. In a free market to succeed you can't just innovate, you have to successively innovate to constantly succeed. The alternative model in which you innovate once and then sue everyone to protect your lead is nice for lawyers, but terrible for consumers and the world.
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EconLog
Probably the most right-wing blog I read.
Tear Down These Walls
Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what, exactly? If not, what is it about the "nature of India" that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
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So I can't point to a particular policy view of mine that has changed. It's more that Bryan Caplan has changed my view of the urgency of immigration reform. It's like the Robert Lucas quote above: Now that I've started thinking about immigration, it's hard to think about anything else, within economic policy, at least. It is pretty clearly the most pro-growth measure the U.S. government could take and the biggest anti-poverty measure.
I've met a lot of fine people in Thailand, mainly young Thais, and I can picture so many of them moving to the United States and tripling their income within a short time by producing the Thai meals and massages that are priced so low here. And, of course, many of those Thais who moved would move to more-professional jobs and would also enrich the Americans they deal with.