Michael Munger

Economics

Competition Can’t Be Perfect

"Since if something is perfect, it must be desirable, a new generation of attorneys is attempting a wholesale takeover of…

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Economics

Look With Two Is

"Look at institutional arrangements as they actually play out, making the comparison by looking through two Is: information and incentives."…

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Economics

Commoditizing Excess Capacity

"If all the cars, and apartments, have people using them, and all the tools have people making things with them,…

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Economics

Division of Labor Makes Us Wealthy…And Fragile

"Our dependence on the ability to serve others in highly specialized ways is contingent on the rest of the system…

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Economics

Property in Words: Not Even Under Suspicion

"Respect for the creators of ideas, and the words through which those ideas are conveyed in the literature, is the…

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Economics

ChatGPT is a Calculator; Deal with It

"For many routine tasks—and, honestly, most writing is routine, not creative—it is faster and actually better to have the AI…

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Economics

I Fought the Google, and the Google Won

Almost exactly 15 years ago, in September 2008, “my” side lost an attempt to rein in state rent-seeking efforts. It…

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Economics

Argentina Agonistes: The Separation of Money and State

"The Argentine peso has lost 93 percent of its value in just the past 4 years. Anyone who could manage…

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Economics

Capitalism is a “DDoLL”

"One thousand people can be unimaginably more wealthy than eight people. Division of labor is the most important source of…

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Economics

Taxation as Social Justice

"The goal is not to raise raise revenue so we can support the poor; instead, the US is pursuing the…

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