Co-blogger Pierre Lemieux’s recent post “Can a Constitution Limit the State?” (July 21, 2025) poses an important question, one political theorists have wrestled with for millennia. In the comments section of that post, I linked to a recent paper in the Journal of Institutional Economics by Jacek Lewkowicz, Jan Falkowski, Zimin Lou, and Olga Marut (henceforth […]

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09.08.2025

Jagdish Bhagwati on Protectionism - Econlib

With all the discussion of free trade, tariffs, and non-tariff barriers, I decided to pick up and quickly skim a short, delightful book by trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati. It’s his 1988 book, titled simply Protectionism. I wrote a short review of the book in the June 5, 1989 issue of Fortune. One of the issues, […]

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11.08.2025

My Weekly Reading for August 10, 2025 - Econlib

Child Protective Services Investigated Her 4 Times Because She Let Her Kids Play Outside by Lenore Skenazy, Reason, August 9, 2025. Excerpt: During this visit, the social services worker acknowledged that our home was clean, that the children were happy, well-fed, polite, and well-spoken, but said the children had to be supervised 100 percent […]

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12.08.2025

Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet) - Econlib

Former submarine commander David Marquet joins EconTalk’s Russ Roberts to explore how distancing–thinking like someone else, somewhere else, or sometime else–can unlock better choices in business and life. They talk about leadership without giving orders, how to empower teams, and what it means to see yourself as a coach rather than a boss. Along the way, they discuss […]

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