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** Econlib Newsletter
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January 2024
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Dear friends,

We wish you the happiest of New Years, and continue to be thankful that you include us in your intellectual journey. We are committed to bringing you the best in economics every day.

As seems to be customary, we report below on some of the content you liked best in 2023. As always, we welcome your suggestions for future content. You can always drop us a line at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=&body=) .

Learn more about our four new Features below, and please help us welcome our new Features Editor, Edward J. Lopez, who joins us to help continue to elevate the quality of our monthly Features. Those you read the most from the past year are as follows:
* Arnold Kling’s review of Niall Ferguson’s The Cash Nexus. ([link removed])
* Arnold Kling’s review of Joyce Benenson’s Warriors and Worrier ([link removed]) s
* Richard McKenzie’s “A Wealth Tax Reality Check” ([link removed])
* Cory Massimino’s “Don Lavoie and the Continuing Relevance of the Knowledge Problem” ([link removed])
* Alejandra Salinas’ Behavioral Economics: Method, Norms, and Policy ([link removed])
* Arnold Kling’s review of Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions ([link removed])
+ Don’t miss Kling’s From the Shelf conversation ([link removed]) on this title with special guest Michael Munger.
* Jeremy Horpedahl’s “Americans Are STILL Thriving” ([link removed])
* Arnold Kling’s review of Jean Twenge’s Generations ([link removed])
* Kwok Ping Tsang’s review of Yuen Yuen Ang’s China’s Gilded Age ([link removed])
* Rosolino Candela’s Liberty Classic on Ludwig von Mises’ Interventionism ([link removed])

We’ll be counting down your favorite EconLog posts, entries from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and more throughout this month on social media; we hope you’ll follow and find out more. Later this week we will release our annual EconTalk listener survey; expect a separate email headed your way next week.

Finally, we want to remind you that you can still subscribe to our fabulous No Due Date book club with Pete Boettke at a specially discounted rate for annual subscriptions ([link removed]) through January 12.

We hope you enjoy the selections above and all the new content we bring you below. We wish you a terrific month, and we’ll be back next month with more.

Until then, stay well and stay curious.


** NEW Econlib Articles
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January 2024


** Who Really Gains from Billions in Economic Development Incentives?
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By Russell Sobel

How much is it worth for a large company, such as Boeing, to build a plant in your town? How about $1 billion dollars?

Russell Sobel takes the case of his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina to deliver an excellent lesson in public choice economics.
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** The Fragility of Civil Society
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By Richard McKenzie

McKenzie argues that F.A. Hayek’s insights about civil society- particularly that it is the result of human action, not human design- are more relevant than ever. He takes on the apparent spate of shoplifting in a fascinating discussion of our evolving- and perhaps deteriorating- social norms.
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** Social Psychology and Business
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** By Arnold Kling
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Arnold Kling reviews the new book from tech guru Andrew McAfee, also a recent guest on EconTalk ([link removed]) . McAfee describes a new sort of business culture for our fast-paced digital world.
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** Pirate Enlightenment:
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Some Treasures, Some Toils

By Carly Jackson

New contributor Carly Jackson takes a look at the pirates of 18th century Madagascar in her review of David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment. She identifies four themes to characterize this innovative society: autonomous women, wealth and markets, no ties to another government, and good stories.
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** EconTalk: Conversation for the Curious
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From the Second Intifada to October 7th

Over the 25 years he's lived in Israel, author Daniel Gordis ([link removed]) of Shalem College has seen many chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, beginning with the Second Intifada that followed the Oslo Accords. Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Roberts ([link removed]) discuss why Hamas's massacre of October 7th is different and is an existential threat to Israel. They also speak about why Israelis are demanding a different response to Hamas than they have in the past, and how and why this war will change Israel and the Jewish people.

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More Recent Episodes & Extras:
* Classic Bryan Caplan Extra: Discrimination is Costly. Is it Costly Enough? ([link removed])
* Can Artificial Intelligence be Moral? (with Paul Bloom ([link removed]) )
* Tyler Cowen Extra: Who’s the Greatest of Them All? ([link removed])
* An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur) ([link removed])
* Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East ([link removed])

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