以伪科学来自欺欺人的经济学者

Arnold Kling：我为经济学同行的行为感到惊讶。标准的宏观经济学根本不管用。书上什么地方说“流动性偏好”需要财政部债券来满足了？什么地方说向银行系统注入资金是一种政策工具了？研究生程度的宏观经济学就更糟糕。那些用委托代理模型来求解欧拉方程的课程遭到抛弃了吗？那些教这些课程的教授被炒鱿鱼了吗？为什么还没有？当然，市场需要“强有力”的领袖和“强有力”的经济学家，而他们就是那些能够以智者形象愚弄公众的人，而以最能自欺者为甚（见这里）。

Russ Roberts: Krugman’s prize

Russ Roberts: So if you love liberty and fear those who would engineer our well-being rather than let it emerge from our free choices, if you love liberty and fear those who would use good intentions as an excuse for plunder, don’t worry. We’ll have our day down the road. Keep reading and writing and [...]

W. E. Williams: Lessons From the Bailout

Walter E. Williams: … Congress started intimidating banks and other financial institutions into making loans, so-called subprime loans, to high-risk homebuyers and businesses… Accounting fraud and deception are the dominant features of government agencies… Shouldn’t the accounting standards businesses have to meet be applied to Washington? My answer is yes and if a congressman says [...]

What Samuelson Said About Inflation

Bryan Caplan: Paul Samuelson embraces reverse causation – inflation usually causes monetary expansion, not the other way around…These quotes aren’t hard for me to believe – after all, I learned my Econ 1 from Samuelson’s 1989 textbook which told us that “the Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, [...]

Stiglitz Errs

Don Boudreaux: Despite being a Nobel laureate in economics, Joseph Stiglitz needs a refresher course in basic trade theory. In his Vanity Fair article he asserts that greater purchases by Americans of foreign oil would put upward pressure on the U.S. trade deficit and thereby “force the U.S. to continue borrowing gargantuan sums from abroad, [...]

今天上线《简明经济学百科全书》第二版

我喜爱的《简明经济学百科全书》第二版今天上线供免费阅读。这是由152位经济学家撰写的、包含超过160个条目的、准确、通俗、简洁、面向真实世界的经济学百科全书。作者包括Alchian、Becker、Baumol、Boudreaux、Hirshleifer、Mankiw、Rothbard、Stigler、Summers、Tobin、Tollison 和 Tullock 等经济学家。我先前的简介见这里，而按作者排列的条目列表则见这里。

普及正版是必由之路

普及正版将是技术和经济发展后的必由之路——寻找借口绕开正版，将变得越来越不光彩，越来越不可能，和越来越没必要。

市场失败与政府失败

常常听到有人说，人并非完全理性，所以当市场失败的时候，就需要政府介入。

关于救市——答五岳散人

市场机制的核心，就是平衡边际，也就是使事情办得恰到好处。市场为什么能这样？因为当事人要为错误的决定负责，所以有积极性悠着点。

赢得尊重从停止狡辩做起

我们为了赢得尊重曾经付出过很高的代价，但有一点，可以赢得尊重而不需要付出成本的，那就是学会羞愧，停止狡辩。