Eric Crampton • May 14, 2013 •
Is there a growing Jedi gap? Or is the Canadian National Household Survey letting us down? The CBC reports: Once numbering in the vicinity of 20,000, the ranks of those in this country who claim to be Jedi Knights inspired by Star Wars movies h... Read More
Eric Crampton • Apr 10, 2013 •
Frances Woolley says we should ignore the aggregate indices of economic freedom and look instead to whether people experience freedom. She points to the World Values Survey question asking whether people think they have freedom of choice and control ov... Read More
Eric Crampton • Apr 04, 2013 •
Frances Woolley very nicely points out the problem with hand-wavy references to 'culture' as explanation: by explaining everything, it explains nothing. She also points out that it violates economists' methodological individualism: "Culture" as an explanation also violates what Eric Crampton calls "the first rule of the microeconomists club": methodological individualism. A good economic explanation starts with the choices of … Read More