Max Molden @maxcl_m

Mache was mit Interventionen | Chefredakteur @DFreydenker | PhD Candidate in Hamburg | Senior Fellow @PrometheusInst | Young Affiliate @nous_network Joined February 2023

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

2 days ago

About time that the EU intervenes to save competitors from competition—it is unacceptable for one competitor to harm another. Luckily, the EU seems not to be concerned with consumers or misled by the idea that competing entails harming competitors (to the consumers' advantage).

EU Competition @EU_Competition

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George Selgin @GeorgeSelgin

5 days ago

Whatever else it did, the New Deal didn't end the Great Depression. New Deal legislation had run its course by mid-1938, its key recovery agency, the NRA, having been dismantled in '35. Yet on the eve of WWII, > 19% of the labor force was either on work relief or unemployed. 1/2

C.T. Phipps - Capepunk, Cthulhu, and Scifi author @CT_Phipps

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Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano

a week ago

1/10 Good news on AI could be bad news for Europe's debt. A boom in AI-driven productivity could end decades of slow growth. But for Europe, this silver lining may hide a fiscal storm cloud. Here’s why.

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

a week ago

Regardless of whether the FED is legitimate (which is decisive and which I doubt) and a prudent institution (which I doubt as well), Powell strikes me as an impressive, steadfast personality and an able FED chair!

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2 weeks ago

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Tobias Blanken @Tobias_B

2 weeks ago

Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen! Kollege @ppe_justus macht sich für Disruption im Gesundheitsbereich stark: welt.de/debatte/articl…

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Juan D. Hanke-Estevez @JuanD_HE

3 weeks ago

Heute wählt Bolivien. Warum diese Wahl die wichtigste seit 2006 sein könnte🧵 1/ Heute wählt Bolivien. Viele sehen es als historisch entscheidend – nicht nur für das Präsidentenamt, sondern für den Kurs des Landes nach fast 20 Jahren Sozialismus.

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Stefan Kooths @StefanKooths

4 weeks ago

1⃣ Herbert Giersch: Ökonomen haben eine Bringschuld gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit, nicht gegenüber Politikern. Schon deshalb, weil deren Anreizsystem anders ausgerichtet ist (Helmut Kohl: „Ich will die Wahlen gewinnen, nicht den Ludwig-Erhard-Preis“). 2⃣ Wenn aber hinreichend…

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

a month ago

"This article extends the economic theory of regulation to include the gains available to elected politicians from alleviating costs threatened or actually imposed on private actors ... Their ability to impose costs enables politicians credibly to demand payments not to do so."

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Nathan P. Goodman @NathanPGoodman

2 months ago

I'll be guest editing a special issue of @cosmosandtaxis on the work of Don Lavoie. Lavoie made vital contributions to comparative economic systems, political economy, cultural economics, and more. Submit your abstract to me by September 1st! cosmosandtaxis.org/submissions/ca…

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

2 months ago

Today's economic policies are a warning to economists. Against this backdrop, my plea is to return to systems thinking—to ask the question: what does it mean that it is generally possible to intervene, or to engage in public policy? @Econlib econlib.org/its-time-to-th…

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

2 months ago

As tariffs hamper cooperation across borders, and the current regime means regime uncertainty, things get more costly. To this come incentives for entrepreneurs to enter the political process. This all makes the economy relatively less efficient. So, relatively higher price level

Max Goedl @maxgoedl

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The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance @pmignorance1

2 months ago

Here’s the latest episode of The Week in Policymaker Ignorance, the third episode in my series on policymaker ignorance and the Vietnam War. This episode covers the crucial events and decisions separating the Kennedy assassination in November 1963 and the arrival of American…

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Max Molden @maxcl_m

2 months ago

A very valuable piece of work that sets the record straight regarding Slobodian's rather bizarre claims about Hayek and Mises.

Anthony J. Evans @anthonyjevans

2 months ago

A very valuable piece of work that sets the record straight regarding Slobodian's rather bizarre claims about Hayek and Mises.

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

2 months ago

In my head I’ve started referring to political quadrants in terms of properties of their preferred coordination networks. Top two are centralized. Bottom two are distributed. Left two are symmetric (aka egalitarian). Right two are asymmetric.