Scott Lincicome

An excellent video from Matt Mitchell at Mercatus visualizes just how amazingly wealthy (and relatively equal) Americans are, as compared ...

From the New York Times travel blog comes a humorous - and totally unintentional - economics lesson in a routine story about traveling in S...

One of the most common justifications for protectionism, tax increases, government spending or intrusive economic regulation is the "fa...

The blogosphere was a-twitter (see what I did there?) this week with debate over the Occupy Wall Street protests and income inequality.  I...

One of the more repeated bits of conventional wisdom out there is that, while the last few decades have been quite good for America's ...

A lot of very interesting things have come across my (virtual) desk over the last few days, and many of them support the things I've be...

There have been several interesting developments over the last few days, so let's get right to them: Eight weeks after the 2010 mid-ter...

One of the more sophisticated arguments against free trade and other free market policies is that they exacerbate income inequality in the U...

Lots to clear off here, so let's get right to it: New Peterson Institute study : imports don't put downward pressure on wages.  Th...

The Manhattan Institute's Jim Manzi has a thought-provoking essay in the Winter 2010 edition of National Affairs  that's been getti...

Great stuff from Steve Horwitz over at Austrian Economists on the modern enrichment of America's poor: % Households with: Poor 19...