Inspired by Saussure, I have often thought that there’s a parallel between linguistics and my own first field, economics. Now, re-inspired by a brilliant series of videos by a linguist named John McWhorter, I know I’m right. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

Javier Milei (Javier Milei) in Argentina is doing it right. For example, he ended controls on rents of apartments, which more or less immediately improved the rental market, even for poor people. He proposes to abolish the central bank and tie the currency to the dollar. Go

Men and women don’t think of The Job the same way. A popular and somewhat silly book a long time ago declared that men are from Mars, named for the god of war, and women are from Venus, the goddess of love. Silly, but accurate. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

Recently I’ve realized that there’s another big 19th-century -ism with 20th-century consequences: Protectionism. It uses the power of the state to protect Brazilian capitalists from foreign competition by blocking entry to Brazil, or it protects American plumbers from

So you ask me what I actually think about Elon Musk. I completely agree with his proposals to deregulate the U.S. economy. True, I don’t think he’s going to get as far as Javier Milei will in Argentina. But you know that I wish Brazil would do it. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

So what to call the liberalism of Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft and early J. S, Mill, and then people like Milton Friedman? What is often called “classical” liberalism, or in the U.S. “libertarianism,” both have their own problems. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

Vernon advises people to do one thing deeply, so you know what depth means. But then read widely. Many of the biggest advances have come from outsiders looking into a field, or a deep expert looking out. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

I’ve told you often why you should not believe everything that comes out of an economist’s mouth. It’s usually mistaken scientifically or ethically or both. My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

In April, a brilliant book on the U.S. Great Depression will be published: George Selgin 's False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947. If you want to understand money and unemployment, the gold standard and the New Deal, read it. I write about it in my

We’ve learned from the old and new assaults on liberalism that good politics depends not so much on institutions as it does on the moral sentiments supporting the institutions. “Add institutions and stir” is not a recipe for prosperity. If people of malice take over a nation

"My colleague wisely observed that one of the most powerful ways that the U.S. has inspired the Liberty Movement worldwide now for two-and-half centuries is that visitors have seen with their own eyes that speech here is quite free." My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo

"Etica", "innovazione" e "origini" sono le parole scelte da Deirdre McCloskey per descrivere i volumi libri della “Trilogia della borghesia”. Nel video l'autrice ci spiega il perché di questa scelta! Deirdre Nansen McCloskey #SilvioBerlusconiEditore

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I go to Guatemala City for dental work. But why not here in the U.S.? Because exactly the same procedure, less well done, costs in the U.S. fully four times more. It’s why “medical tourism” expands. Los Algodones, Mexico, a few miles south of the Rio Grande, is known as

I just spent a productive half hour talking to a brilliant colleague reflecting on the sad fact that most people are socialists or fascists or racists or protectionists or “social” liberals, immune to what seems to both of us to be the obvious truths of essential liberalism. My