Archive - Jackonomics

She's a member of the US military. Her husband was taken by ICE.

This story is about a friend of a friend, not commentary on a public news story.

Aug 20 •

July 2025

The National Debt and the Big, Beautiful Bastard

Also: the Jackonomics budget

Jul 20 •

Let the Chinese scammers have your lost phone

Sometimes, the right thing to do is let the bad guys win

Jul 15 •

Will the right kind of bath fix your body?

Bone health, hypertension, inflammation, and more are (supposedly) improved by dipping your body in the right kind of chemical soup

Jul 11 •

Failure to correctly summarize minimum wage research

In the original version of “Economics Is a Science, part 3”, I used this illustration of minimum wage research from Doucouliagos and Stanley (2009):

Jul 8 •

The right thing to do is often not what you're expected to do

Contra Bryan Caplan on insect death

Jul 7 •

Mamdani 2025: You'd Better Hope They're False Promises

Reviewing the platform of New York City's most likely next mayor

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Short post: do the poor have twice as much free time as the typical person?

No, obviously not!

Jun 24 •

Sleeping Beauty, the Dungeon, and the Envelopes

This post is about various problems in philosophy that I find interesting to think about.

Jun 22 •

Reactions to “Economics Is a Science” (And My Responses)

To further my goal of gaining 10 kabillion Substack subscribers and getting elected President of Earth, I recently posted a summary of EIAS to…

Jun 12 •

Supply and Demand Usually Works: A Very Long List of 50 Cases

Since you might want them...

Jun 7 •

Economics Is a Science, Part 4

Jun 4 •

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