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Yay! [2] My colleague Bryan Caplan’s graphic novel (done with artist Zach Weinersmith) – Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration [3] – will soon be available.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes eloquently against the folly of rent control [4]. A slice:
Acknowledging the damage caused by rent control is neither a right- nor left-wing issue. It was staunch free-market economist Walter E. Williams who wrote in 1987 [5] that “short of aerial saturation bombing, rent control might be one of the most effective means of destroying a city.” It was the communist foreign minister of Vietnam who made nearly the identical point in 1989: “The Americans couldn’t destroy Hanoi,” Nguyen Co Thach remarked [6], “but we have destroyed our city by very low rents.”
Mark Perry shares a video, featuring Colin Grabow, on the cronyist and destructive Jones Act [8].
Pete Boettke celebrates the 75th anniversary of the publication of F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom [9].
James Pethokoukis is reasonably upbeat about the state of the American economy [10].
George Selgin tweets on the “doubtful economics” of the Green New Deal [11].
Russ Roberts objects to sloppy empirical work masquerading as science [12]. And here are Arnold Kling’s thoughts on Russ’s essay [13].