China's Belt and Road Initiative, Colorblindness versus Neoracism, and more.

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** Econlib Newsletter
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April 2024
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Dear friends,

It’s showering where we are, so here’s hoping for some lovely May flowers! We hope this new month finds you happy, well (and dry?) wherever you are. We’re glad to have you along!

This month, we’re celebrating the continued good work of David Henderson. In addition to his regular blogging at EconLog ([link removed]) , David is also the editor of our Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ([link removed]) . David has also written several entries in the Encyclopedia, as well as most of the Biographies. Just last week, we released our newest Biography, Ludwig Lachmann ([link removed]) , this one co-authored by Hans Eicholz and Bill Tulloh. Liberty Fund books continues to offer the Encyclopedia in print ([link removed]) . In the meantime, there are many entries available only online at Econlib. Here’s a sampling; you can find many more online:
* Hoover’s Economic Policies ([link removed]) , by Steven Horwitz
* Mancur Olson ([link removed]) , by David Henderson
* Division of Labor, ([link removed]) by Mike Munger
* Armen Alchian ([link removed]) , by David Henderson
* The 2008 Financial Crisis ([link removed]) , by Arnold Kling

Finally, and in case you missed it, Henderson also recently appeared on the Great Antidote ([link removed]) podcast, discussing the work of another famed economist whose biography he wrote, Robert Solow ([link removed]) . Check it out, and subscribe to the podcast today.

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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April 2024


** Misanthropy Springs from the Lust for Power: H.G. Wells
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By Richard Gunderman

Inspired by a recent Virtual Reading Group ([link removed]) , Richard Gunderman dives into the essays of H.G. Wells, which take us far beyond his more well known science fiction…and Gunderman doesn’t like what he finds there.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative: If You Build It, Will They Come?

By Gregory Caskey

After nearly a trillion dollars in investment, how successful has China’s BRI been? New contributor Gregory Caskey tries to find out, by posing the question, “Should we expect BRI projects to be value-adding for local peoples, or will they instead reject those projects—and why?”
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** Individualism versus Racism
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** By Arnold Kling
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This month, Kling takes on the controversial new book from Coleman Hughes, in which he argues in favor of a colorblind society and against what he dubs “neoracism.”
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Princess Mathilde and the Immorality of Politics

By Pierre Lemieux

We cannot be against politics, especially in a democratic regime; isn’t that obvious? Anthony de Jasay thought otherwise. In this new Liberty Classic, Pierre Lemieux looks back on this collection of de Jasay’s scholarly essays, which he views as posterior to his seminal work, The State.
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** EconTalk: Conversation for the Curious
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A User's Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni)

Can you be too happy? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni ([link removed]) talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts ([link removed]) about our emotional control systems, which seem to work at bringing both sadness and happiness back to a steady baseline. Too much happiness is--perhaps surprisingly--not necessarily a good thing. They also explore whether our general level of happiness is really related to events in our lives or connected to something much larger than ourselves.

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* Charles Duhigg Extra: Listening, Looping, Learning ([link removed])
* Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib) ([link removed])
* Noah Smith Extra: Industrialization > Imperialism ([link removed])
* Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar) ([link removed])
* How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber) ([link removed])

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