Although that strategy didn’t work out so well for Jerry Seinfeld…. It’s that time of year for my annual post on the “deadweight loss of holiday gift-giving.” 1. Economist Steven Landsburg writing in ...

In the video above, we see how some workers are made better off by the minimum wage, but producers are made worse, and overall there is a reduction in jobs and hours worked, along with an overall ...

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Roland Fryer’s “A Perfect Christmas Is Suboptimal” (op-ed, Dec. 24) made me nostalgic for the classroom. As an economics instructor in the 1990s, I was thankful to have Joel Waldfogel’s new approach ...