Meanderings of an Eccentric Economist

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Replication Notes: Tariffs, Time, and Constitutional Incentives
Mapping the time horizon of tariff authority, economic costs, and institutional review
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Don’t Put Your Faith in Princes — But Do Notice When the Right Ones Win
Hernando de Soto and Liberalism Beyond Strongmen
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When Correction Looks Like Failure
Institutional Learning and the Paradox of Democratic Responsiveness
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McArdle’s Libertarian “Polemic” Was Really a Mechanism Failure
How a paleolibertarian takeover turned a liberal party into a political vehicle
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The Myth That Won’t Die
What Heritage’s own fraud database reveals about incentives, institutions, and the persistence of a political myth
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Babel Is a Coordination Problem
Language drift is normal. The incentives we’ve built around it aren’t.
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The Tariff Trilemma: Protection, Prices, and Prosperity
Why politicians promise a free lunch on tariffs—and why scarcity always collects.
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When Resistance Reveals Institutional Failure: A Response to The Bulwark on Immigration Enforcement
The people of Minneapolis aren't leading—they're screaming that our enforcement mechanisms are fundamentally broken
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The Punishment Equilibrium
How courts, jails, and housing providers get trapped in the safest deadly choice
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When Power Forgets Its Own Story
On Jennifer E. Nemecek’s “When Legitimacy Breaks Before Power” and the quiet mechanics of a post legitimacy order
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No, Trump Can’t Bail Out Bitcoin
Even in our Bizarro world, a TARP for tokens rescue is more fantasy than policy—and that’s exactly how the system is designed.
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When the House Speaker Tried to Catechize the Pope
Mike Johnson's "biblical borders" theology meets Aquinas, Pope Leo XIV, and the ugly reality of American immigration enforcement
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