Community Responses to COVID, Nukes in North Korea, and America's Animal Spirits

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** Econlib Newsletter
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March 2024
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Dear friends,

We hope you enjoyed your “extra” day last week! We love Leap Year… You always hear us say, There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch ([link removed]) , but we think February 29th comes pretty darn close!

This month, we bring you tons of new content, as usual, along with some highlights from around our network. Below you’ll find two new book reviews and two new Features, plus this week’s EconTalk episode and more.

Speaking of EconTalk, as Russ has been focusing on quality conversation and the best way to talk about the Middle East, our Great Antidote podcast host Juliette Sellgren has been taking some fantastic deep dives into economic content at AdamSmithWorks ([link removed]) . Sellgren started the podcast during the depths of the COVID lockdown, and has been building an amazing guest list ever since. She explores the unseen, counterintuitive effects of policy whether it be poverty, the use of drones by the military, or the benefits of export subsidies. Here are some recent episodes we think would be of special interest to EconTalk fans. Click on each to find the audio, transcript, and collection of related links.
* Economic Freedom on the Reservation: A Conversation with Thomas Stratmann. ([link removed])
* Alice Temnick on Teaching, Learning, and Adam Smith’s Education ([link removed]) .
* Alain Bertaud on Urban Planning and Cities ([link removed]) .
* Robert Lawson on Educating for Economic Freedom: James Gwartney’s Legacy ([link removed]) .
* Vincent Geloso on Global Inequality ([link removed]) .
* Kerianne Lawson on Equal Economic Freedoms ([link removed]) .

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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March 2024


** Orthodox Jewish Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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By Rachael Behr LaRose

Rachael LaRose offers a new Feature on private responses to public health crises, much in the same vein as Byron Carson’s February Feature ([link removed]) . LaRose illustrates a helpful distinction between economic and technical solutions to crises, and uses the responses of Orthodox Jewish communities around the world as evidence that communities remain “vital agents in disseminating accurate information and implementing localized responses, playing a crucial role in the recovery process.”
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Why Protect a Rich South Korea from a Nuclear North Korea?

By Doug Bandow

“Why is North Korea America’s problem? Such is the price Americans pay for what is known in Washington as ‘global leadership.'” So argues Doug Bandow in our new Feature, suggesting that South Korea’s nuclear ambitions are the business of a United States, even under a narrow interpretation of what we mean by “national defense.”
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** Milton Friedman's Many Battles
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** By Arnold Kling
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In 2020, Joe Biden declared that, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show any more.” Whether Biden was right or not, it’s certainly true that Friedman did run the show for many years- especially in the early 1970s.This month, Arnold Kling takes us on a tour of Jennifer Burns’s best-selling Friedman bio and of Friedman’s policy victories.
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America's Animal Spirits

By Samuel Gregg

Cultural historian Jackson Lears wants to dispel the notion of Americans as “a nation of buttoned-down utility-maximizers, managers, and workers obsessed with realizing ever-greater efficiencies in a rather mundane and utterly predictable manner.” In this new new book review, Samuel Gregg explores the animating “animal spirits” which may better explain American vitality.
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** EconTalk: Conversation for the Curious
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How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)

There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of the real world. Jeremy Weber ([link removed]) of the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Statistics for Public Policy hopes his book can close that gap. He talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts ([link removed]) about how to use numbers thoughtfully and honestly

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More Recent Episodes & Extras:
* The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg) ([link removed])
* A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright) ([link removed])
* Haviv Rettig Gur Extra: Lessons from a Zero Sum Game ([link removed])
* Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) ([link removed])
* Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren) ([link removed])
* Jennifer Burns Extra: Tales of a Heterodox Conservative ([link removed])

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