US Government Cheese
Classic example of price controls and government failure in a short and mildly amusing video from NPR
Maximum Prices for Organs
Article from the BBC about the maximum price for human kidneys (ie 0!), including interview with Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth. First time I...
Maximum Prices in Russia
Nice article from the FT about temporary maximum prices on various food in Russia. Has some discussion about why prices got so high, so...
Natural Experiment on Minimum Wages
12-minute podcast from Planet Money about a mall straddling the border between Santa Clara and San Jose. When San Jose raised its minimum...
Obesity, Poverty and Public Policy Resources
From Dame Rachel Griffith as part of the RES Annual Conference, this talk takes a look at the interactions between obesity and poverty,...
German Rent Caps
A handy article shared by Yousuf on Rent Caps in Germany. It's focussed more on the legal debate rather than an economic one, but there...
Friedrich Hayek - Economics in Ten
From the episode description: Want to know who Friedrich Hayek was? Batman had the Joker. Holmes had Moriarty. Emu had Grotbags. And in...