Michael Munger

In the past decade, the theoretical and empirical arguments of French economist Thomas Piketty have attracted widespread attention.

Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.

If every clause composing it had been replaced (and ratified) does it remain the same Constitution? Can it be remade, in a form recognizable to the founders?

Bureaucracies save money by wasting your time. Government bureaucracies can compel you to waste it.

Even Elon Musk can't make bureaucracy efficient.

Yuval Harari’s 'Nexus' asks if we should restrict the evolution of artificial intelligence, given that it cannot be easily reversed.

Tariffs distort market signals that would otherwise lower costs, raise competition, and motivate reinvestment.

Classical liberalism and conservatism as pure atomic elements are unstable and reactive, but the molecular bonds of fusionism are more stable.

"There is simply no necessary relationship between cost and price." ~Michael Munger

"Benefits are contingent, and the contingencies — no jobs, no marriage — are detrimental to women long term, and disturbingly similar to the restrictions a polygamist would impose." ~Michael Munger