Writings by Topic: Markets, Economics, and Competition
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| Debating the bottle bill — with myself |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2026 |
| When 100,000 fans want 18,000 seats |
Arguable |
March 10, 2026 |
| Orchestras aren't what make the West worth defending |
Arguable |
January 27, 2026 |
| The two faces of human stubbornness |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2025 |
| Why won't zombie bad ideas stay buried? |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 2025 |
| Rent control's winners are the well-off and the well-connected |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2025 |
| In the real world, minimum-wage hikes cost people their jobs |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 2025 |
| Supermarket socialism |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 2025 |
| An ugly tax in a 'beautiful' bill |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2025 |
| The tone-deafness of 'just two dolls' |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2025 |
| The purpose of manufacturing is to make things, not jobs |
The Boston Globe |
April 27, 2025 |
| A penny, more or less |
Arguable |
March 18, 2025 |
| Mar-a-Lago's 'trade deficit' isn't a problem. Neither is America's. |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2025 |
| The invincible incoherence of Trump's tariff obsession |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2025 |
| Minimum wage goes up. Employment goes down. Rinse and repeat. |
Arguable |
December 17, 2024 |
| Argentina's capitalist counterrevolution is off to a good start |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 2024 |
| Thank God for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2024 |
| Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, H.W. Bush ... and Harris? |
Arguable |
August 20, 2024 |
| Will making community college free make it better? |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2024 |
| More micromanaging will not cure Boston's liquor license shortage |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2024 |
| If you can wager on the price of orange juice, why not on elections? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2024 |
| In Argentina, Milei's exhilarating chainsaw revolution is underway |
The Boston Globe |
May 19, 2024 |
| The Wendy's beef was a nothingburger |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2024 |
| Brookline's phased cigarette ban is unwise, irrational, and patronizing |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2023 |
| Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2023 |
| When the minimum wage rises, does homelessness rise too? |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2023 |
| Your credit score is excellent, so prepare to be penalized |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2023 |
| As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2023 |
| What poor nations need is wealth, not climate reparations |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2022 |
| Congress can attack inflation — if it chooses to |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2022 |
| No, income inequality isn't at an all-time high. It's at a historic low. |
Arguable |
November 14, 2022 |
| 'The off-ramp out of extreme poverty' |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
November 9, 2022 |
| No, Hurricane Ian will not 'fuel the economy' |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2022 |
| Sweet lands of liberty |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2022 |
| When Jesus told stories about economics |
Arguable |
May 16, 2022 |
| The trade deficit is up again. No worries. |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2022 |
| 'Putin's price hike' is just the latest Biden inflation myth |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2022 |
| Netflix and the moose |
Arguable |
March 28, 2022 |
| Bye-bye, Bay State |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2022 |
| Nobody knows anything |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2022 |
| Elizabeth Warren's one-trick inflation pony |
The Boston Globe |
December 29, 2021 |
| I expected better of Elizabeth Warren |
Arguable |
December 27, 2021 |
| The inflation hawks have been right all along |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2021 |
| The virtue-signaling stock exchange |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2021 |
| The cruelty of a higher minimum wage |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2021 |
| Freedom of association and the Big Tech purge |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2021 |
| 84 years of not suffering fools |
Arguable |
December 7, 2020 |
| A defeat for the cancel culture |
The Boston Globe |
August 5, 2020 |
| When demand soars, prices should too |
The Boston Globe |
March 18, 2020 |
| Actually, class warriors, skyrocketing inequality may be a myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 15, 2019 |
| The counterproductive cruelties of occupational licensing |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2019 |
| 'Price gouging' during natural disasters isn't a problem. It's part of the solution |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2019 |
| What to Frederick Douglass is the "Douglass Plan"? |
Arguable |
July 15, 2019 |
| The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2019 |
| Net neutrality is gone, but the Internet is fine |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2018 |
| The kosher-industrial complex |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2018 |
| America has grown. Its highways should, too. |
The Boston Globe |
October 7, 2018 |
| California's bad idea: gender quotas for corporate boards |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2018 |
| San Francisco employees eat at work. City Hall wants to punish them |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2018 |
| The businessman in the cassock |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 2018 |
| Leave Google alone |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2018 |
| The undeferred dreams of Elias Howe and Madame C. J. Walker |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2018 |
| China's corporate tools |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2018 |
| Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2018 |
| As a matter of fact, minimum wage laws hurt the poor |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2018 |
| Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2017 |
| While Trump tweets, Amazon hires |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2017 |
| Freedom of association is for businesses, too |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2017 |
| The collapse of the taxi-medallion shakedown |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2017 |
| Sorry, class warriors, unions aren't coming back |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 2017 |
| Ditch Obamacare, and don't stop there |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2017 |
| What Obamacare's drafters could have learned from a hairdresser |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2017 |
| No men need apply |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2017 |
| Trump's 'Buy American' call is economic folly |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2017 |
| The fabulous wealth of the 'Oxfam 8' |
The Boston Globe |
January 18, 2017 |
| Barack Obama's legacy of failure |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2017 |
| As socialism shattered Venezuela, the useful idiots applauded |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2016 |
| Minimum-wage laws: Good intentions, bad results |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2016 |
| Hurricane Matthew's nonexistent silver lining |
The Boston Globe |
October 12, 2016 |
| Lottery games online? Scratch that idea |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2016 |
| Does it matter how many women sit on corporate boards? |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2016 |
| Payday loans are a poor option. No payday loans would be worse |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2016 |
| Should you need the government's permission to work? |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2016 |
| Let patients pay the piper, and the price of health care will fall |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2016 |
| GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2016 |
| Our inalienable right to free trade |
The Boston Globe |
December 20, 2015 |
| No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2015 |
| 'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 2015 |
| It's socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor |
The Boston Globe |
May 31, 2015 |
| Strawberry field hands forever? |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2015 |
| Politicians, 'profiteers,' and public health |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2015 |
| China's economy isn't No. 1 — but if it were, so what? |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2014 |
| As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2014 |
| Buy your health insurance out of state |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2014 |
| Gas is cheaper. Where are the grandstanding politicians? |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 2014 |
| No, inverters aren't 'deserters' |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2014 |
| Pfizer and the flight from punitive taxes |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2014 |
| Why no wine online in Massachusetts? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2014 |
| Income gap? Not many are obsessed |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2014 |
| Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2013 |
| The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2013 |
| Which ObamaCare shoe will drop next? |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2013 |
| A cup of civility |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2013 |
| Logan Airport is too important to be run by the state |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2013 |
| Boston's taxicab mess – and the oligopoly behind it |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2013 |
| Education liberation |
The Boston Globe |
March 10, 2013 |
| What Medicare needs is a consumer-driven market |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2012 |
| Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 2012 |
| A free market brings down health costs |
The Boston Globe |
June 13, 2012 |
| Health care: No, the state doesn't know best |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2012 |
| 'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 2012 |
| Taxi medallions shackle cabbies |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2012 |
| Why should the state license drivers? |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2012 |
| Tom Menino, cable guy? |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2012 |
| E-mail isn't killing the Post Office |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2011 |
| Medallion madness |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2011 |
| Disaster isn't a stimulus package |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2011 |
| Made in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2011 |
| Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2010 |
| The waste of recycling |
The Boston Globe |
September 22, 2010 |
| Get excited about recycling? Not me |
The Boston Globe |
September 19, 2010 |
| 'Clunkers' was a classic government folly |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2010 |
| Does the press deserve a bailout? |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2010 |
| What's wrong with price gouging? |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2010 |
| Look who's carrying on |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2010 |
| Paying the price for a UMass law school |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2010 |
| Candidates, campaigns, and New Coke |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2010 |
| Economics 101: How little they really know |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2009 |
| The public's best option: Less government, more choice |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2009 |
| The war against affordable books |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2009 |
| Clunker Q&A |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 2009 |
| Health care: We don't need the Lexus |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2009 |
| Minimum-wage folly |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 2009 |
| A deadly organ-donor system |
The Boston Globe |
July 5, 2009 |
| Liberal bias isn't killing newspapers |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 2009 |
| The efficiency paradox |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2009 |
| Money for nothing won't grow the economy |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2009 |
| An over-optimistic stimulus plan |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2009 |
| Health care shouldn't be linked to employment |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 2008 |
| Whose mess, Congressman Frank? |
The Boston Globe |
September 28, 2008 |
| Seeing through Obamanomics |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2008 |
| These are (still) the good old days |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2008 |
| No profits, no oil |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2008 |
| Remember, there's no free lunch |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2008 |
| Scrap scalping laws |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2007 |
| If the Registry really wants our love... |
The Boston Globe |
February 11, 2007 |
| Bring on the 'price gougers' |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2004 |
| Giving thanks for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2003 |
| Tolls, but no tollbooths |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2003 |
| The unbearable dullness of economic writing |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 2003 |
| The blessing of private property |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2002 |
| The wit and wisdom of Bastiat |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2001 |
| Monopolists behind bars |
The Boston Globe |
November 11, 2001 |
| Still more solutions to our transportation woes |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 2001 |
| If I were the transportation czar |
The Boston Globe |
August 13, 2001 |
| On free trade, do more than talk the talk |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2001 |
| The 20th century by the numbers |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2001 |
| If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2000 |
| A sour milk policy |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2000 |
| US trade barriers are bad — for the US |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 1998 |
| Microsoft's real crime: success |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 1998 |
| Patriotism and the Fortune 100 |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 1998 |
| Boston's 'lost' conventions |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 1998 |
| Why the tizzy over the trade deficit? |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 1998 |
| What hath Roe wrought |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 1998 |
| On college campuses, all is not yet lost |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 1997 |
| Who needs the Registry? |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 1997 |
| A commercial jewel in PBS's crown |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 1997 |
| Waging hypocrisy |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 1996 |
| Minimum wage, maximum pain |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 1996 |
| Break open the taxicab monopoly |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 1995 |
| Let competition move the mail |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 1995 |
| From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
March 3, 1994 |
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