Free link to my new paper on rationality in the work of Ludwig Mises w/ Andre Quintas. We argue that Mises' early work was Weberian in its understanding of rationality, history, and human action, it was only later (early 1930s) that Mises adopted his notorious praxeological view of rational action.

Launching today: The Inner Life of Liberalism, a new podcast from me and @uncanonical.net. The thesis: liberalism doesn't just need better arguments. It needs better practices, the kind that reshape what you notice, feel, and become. Episode 1 is live. 🧵 on the project.

The program for the 1st joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society is now online. I wouldn’t say putting it together was a walk in the park... From May 26 to 29, more than 400 researchers. eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

Starting today, my book Moral Economics is actually available in stores:) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/feli...

hey look, another day, another reason to read about reciprocity and the need to actually *enforce* norms. www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-ne...

My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

Our Writing Workshop is starting up again, and soon. Sign up before March 13, and get started by March 17. Hosted by Harro Maas and Paul Dudenhefer you get mentorship from a leading researcher and editor in the field of the history of economic thought, all for free. So do sign up!

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18... I love writing book reviews. They’re still a place where you can debate ideas, something that’s becoming a bit rarer in academia. OEconomia is especially great for this.The editors give us plenty of room to engage fully with the books we review.

A good day for #nokings

Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...

This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...

This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...

Neon Liberalism #60: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group in Minneapolis, and he recounts witnessing ICE abductions and confronting ICE agents.

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our December issue is out, with five article, four book reviews, and two letters to the editor. This is the last issue edited by Pedro Duarte and Jiména Hurtado. As incoming editors, we would like to take the opportunity to express a great thanks for the excellent job they have done!

➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social 🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

New open-access article at JHET by Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Marianne Johnson, which discusses family economics and poverty around the turn of the 20th century: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

New article at JHET: doi.org/10.1017/S105... On Heinrich Dietzel's attempt to reconcile the different camps in the German Methodenstreit of the late 19th century.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago is about Saul Alinsky, the famous community organizer and author of Rules for Radicals. To my surprise, he studied crime, hanging out with Al Capone's gang, while studying sociology around 1930. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/saul-alins...

Antoine Missemer and two guest editors Béatrice Cointe and Christophe Cassen are launching a call for papers for a special issue of Œconomia on the history of climate economics. journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

New JHET article out, open access.

"If courts endorse the broad definition of 'invasion' advocated by the admin, dire consequences will follow.... the federal government could suspend the writ of habeas corpus and detain people (including U.S. citizens) at will." -- @ilyasomin.bsky.social on Cato's amicus brief in AEA case @cato.org

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life

This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life

I just received a document from DHS showing that it has a detained population of 65,000, a staggering total, nearing half the total prison population detained by the Bureau of Prisons. The project is to jam them in horrible conditions until they give up their rights to stay

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

The perfect symbol of a rigged economy

The perfect symbol of a rigged economy

This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

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New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity

New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This week's Seeing like Chicago post talks about the importance of 'seeing through the eyes of others' and how it became a moral-political project among sociologists. With several shout-outs to the great new book Liberal Emancipation by Mikayla Novak. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...

Among the suspected effects are a higher frequency of tropical storms, which scientists earlier linked to climate change.