The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

The great Gary Becker has apparently passed away . One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, along with Keynes and Friedma...

So Eugene Fama was finally awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Lars Hansen and Robert Shiller. All of them are thoroughly deser...

No, that is is neither a typo, nor sarcasm. From the great  Frédéric Bastiat : When James B. gives a hundred pence to a Government officer...

Suppose it is 1983, and you are a doctor who has developed a drug that can produce an erection when injected into the penis. You need to pro...

Apple is reporting that Steve Jobs has died . A sad day indeed. Much will be written about him in the next few days, no doubt. The world d...

John Harsanyi was one of the founding fathers of Game Theory , a fascinating part of economic theory that examines how agents make strategic...

Can there be an event more thoroughly deserving of scorn and derision than Earth Hour? This is the time when sanctimonious hairshirt poseurs...

...to be a double agent working against the Nazis in WW2. It takes even bigger brass balls to be so good at it that you manage to receive ...