●Garett Jones, “Research Incentives: Milton Friedman on the Fed”（EconLog, December 11, 2012） カネ（金銭的なインセンティブ）は研究の結果に影響を与えるのだろうか？ 医薬品の研究・開発をめぐってこの質問が問われることはよくあるが、この質問は…

●Dani Rodrik, “Ideas over Interests”（Project Syndicate, April 26, 2012） Interests are not fixed or predetermined. They are themselves shaped by ideas – beliefs about who we are, what we are trying to achieve, and how the world works. Our…

●Jennifer Roback（1985）, “The Economic Thought of George Orwell（JSTOR）”（American Economic Review, Vol.75, No.2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1985), pp.127-132） …

●Daniel B. Klein（1994）, “If Government Is So Villainous, How Come Government Officials Don't Seem Like Villains（pdf）”（Economics and Philosophy, Vol.10, Issue01, pp. 91-106） Another possibility is to say that our intellectual opponent…

●Bryan Caplan, “The Myth of the Rational Voter”（Cato Unbound, November 6, 2006） ペーパーバック版も出版されてるよ。よろしくね。 The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies作者: Bryan Caplan出版社/メーカー: Princeto…

●Terry M. Moe（1990）, “Political institutions: The neglected side of the story（pdf）”（Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, vol.6, pp.213–53）●Terry M. Moe（2005）, “Power and Political Institutions（pdf）”（Perspectives on Polit…

●Alexander Combs, “Two Track Mind: How Irrational Policy Endures”（Library of Economics and Liberty, June 7, 2004） Wherever the truth lies, one thing is clear: not all deaths are judged equally. In the moral calculus of the mind emotional…

●Michael Munger, “Rent-Seek and You Will Find”（Library of Economics and Liberty, July 3, 2006） In a well-functioning market system, competition rewards low price and high quality. Such optimal functioning requires either large numbers of…

●Michael Huemer, “Why People Are Irrational about Politics” Abstract； I look for explanations for the phenomenon of widespread, strong, and persistent disagreements about political issues. The best explanation is provided by the hypothesi…

●Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler（2003）, “Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron（pdf）”（The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol.70(4), pp.1159-1202）●Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, “The dramatic effect of a firm nudge”（…

●Konstantin Sonin, “The dictator’s approach to electoral patterns”（VOX, August 9, 2008） While the people of the developed world are fascinated by electoral campaigns, more than a half of the world’s population does not have a chance to p…

●Bryan Caplan, “Disastrous Voting”（EconLog, July 15, 2008） Even when government spending could greatly improve efficiency, it fails to do so. In the hands of rational voters, government is strong medicine for public goods problems. But i…

●Jagdish Bhagwati, “What makes capitalism work?”（Creative Capitalism, July 14, 2008） I believe Capitalism flourishes, in the teeth of inevitable inequality, when one of five conditions is fulfilled:1. First, the poor do not envy or resen…

●Peter Saunders（2007）, “Why Capitalism is Good for the Soul”（Policy, pdf版） Andrew Norton notes that disaffected intellectuals since Rousseau have been attacking capitalism for its failure to meet ‘true human needs.’ The claim is unfou…

●“When the state does not enforce property rights”（Dani Rodrik's weblog, July 14, 2008） タリバンがオルソン言うところのstationary bandit*1として活動し始めたということかしらん。何がきっかけで割引率が低下（＝視野が長期化）したんだろう？ Zir…

●“Why China Allows its Citizens to Sue the Government”（The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog, July 13, 2008） Why would a dictatorship like China tolerate, and even encourage, such challenges to state action? The basic story i…

Tyler Cowen、“The Fate of Culture（pdf）”（Wilson Quarterly）*1 The argument that markets destroy culture and diversity comes from people across the political spectrum.・・・・ Duke University's Fredric Jameson sums up the common view：“Th…