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I didn't really have a rooting interest in the Super Bowl, so you root for: (1) a good, watchable game, generally, and (2) good commercials. It lived up to both (more or less) until - I couldn't believe my eyes - but was that some insane economics I just saw in a...

Before I start getting too deep into economics, I want to switch gears and talk about the Law, as it pertains to economics. Sort of. There are a number of people who cite the Rule of Law as essential to economic activity, although the University of Chicago Law School...

This is a little weird. As I started to write out these ideas on economics, it dawned on me that I have absolutely no educational background to be teaching the subject at all. I do not have a degree in economics, for example. I did not minor in economics, either. In...

While I am anxious to launch right into the meat of the first section of the course - roughly twelve essays covering (mostly) Economics, Philosophy, Law/Jurisprudence, and Political Philosophy - before we get to that, I need to cover something a little more amorphous,...

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."          - Pete SeegerFor this entire year, I am going to try something a bit different, at...