Erik Matson @erikwmatson
Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center | Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Program at George Mason U | Lecturer at Catholic University erikwmatson.com Joined November 2022-
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"G.K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy that the world is full of magic. He found it in flowers, rain, the sunlight. He might, if pressed, have admitted to seeing it down the aisles of a grocery store." In a new article by me in @TheFreemanMag thefreemanmag.substack.com/p/the-economic…
Smith didn’t just publish TMS and walk away—he kept editing it for decades. Why? And what do those changes tell us? Erik Matson tells the story in Part 2 of this fascinating series: 🔗 loom.ly/zItcxXc #AdamSmith #ScottishEnlightenment
Should economists think like plumbers? Esther Duflo, a Nobel laureate, says yes. Just as plumbers tinker with pipes to keep water flowing, economists, she argues, should tweak and fine-tune policy to keep society functioning. It’s a seductive metaphor, but a flawed one. 🧵
@erikwmatson reflects on how classical economics shapes our ethical imagination.
I'll be contributing somewhat regularly to The Freeman, recently re-launched on Substack @TheFreemanMag Here is something I wrote on ethics and economic education: thefreemanmag.substack.com/p/ethics-and-e…
acton.is/4eeJ0Re The Enduring Value of Weber's 'Protestant Ethic' via @erikwmatson
Is the market a place for virtue? In this @adamsmithworks essay, @erikwmatson shows how Adam Smith and Joseph Butler both believed that commerce, when practiced with character, can be honest and good. 📖 loom.ly/dtLwGyk #AdamSmith #MoralMarkets
“Let’s make things cheaper by force,” they said. @erikwmatson shows why that logic has flopped since 1777.
I am very grateful for an absolutely fantastic friend and collaborator, @erikwmatson, who drove the project forward consistently and led us to the finish. Here is the ToC: dropbox.com/scl/fi/8uvr727…
I am very grateful for an absolutely fantastic friend and collaborator, @erikwmatson, who drove the project forward consistently and led us to the finish. Here is the ToC: dropbox.com/scl/fi/8uvr727…
Submitted final files for these two volumes today. Very excited to have these see the light of day next year! @BHAcademic
The SI in honor of the contributions of Mario Rizzo is now available online: Process, rationality and human wellbeing | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core cambridge.org/core/journals/…
"Buy local" sounds nice — but ignoring comparative advantage can make us all worse off. Learn why specialization and trade are key to prosperity: 👉 loom.ly/kWeA9LQ #Trade #Economics #GlobalEconomy @erikwmatson @mercatus
Trade isn’t about doing what you do best — it’s about doing what you do better than others relative to everything else. 🔄🌎 Explore why comparative advantage still matters in today’s global economy: 👉 loom.ly/kWeA9LQ #Trade #ComparativeAdvantage #Economics @erikwmatson
Thanks to @CafeHayek for highlighting my @Econlib article on comparative advantage today. cafehayek.com/2025/05/some-l…
"Certain convictions and claims might incline us towards or against trade liberalization and the historical Ricardian policy position. But they in fact take nothing away from the analytical principle of comparative advantage." Basic econ from me @Econlib econlib.org/library/column…
What is a moral science, and what does it mean to say that economics is a moral science? libertarianism.org/articles/econo… New article by me, part of 'Just Sentiments' series, formerly hosted by @adamsmithworks, but now, as of April 2025, hosted by @libertarianism
My essay, "Lessons from the Founders on Price Controls" appeared @feeonline last month. It was originally published @GRFord_Forum last spring. Great insights especially from John Witherspoon on market process. fee.org/articles/lesso…
The American people are increasingly beholden to our presidents’ whims about tariffs, which we should not forget, are taxes, the burden of which falls largely on the American people. Read @erikwmatson's latest essay lawliberty.org/no-tariffs-wit…
"Commerce’s revaluation—from moral reproach to a driver of innovation and economic growth—has been central to the development of prosperous, dynamic modern economies." A new essay from me published by @UT_Civitas civitasinstitute.org/research/polit…
Fascinating paper by @erikwmatson. There is a ton of opportunity for HET on Colonial American economic thinkers (John Witherspoon, Pelatiah Webster, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, etc.): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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