Pierre Lemieux
Author and Contributor at Freelance
Economist & author. Latest book: What's Wrong with Protectionism? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
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1 week ago |
econlib.org | Pierre Lemieux
Suppose you measure something (say, GDP) in two steps: first, you add in some number (say, the value of imports); second, you subtract the same value.
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2 weeks ago |
econlib.org | Pierre Lemieux
Harvard University is a great private institution, albeit too enmeshed in our naive political zeitgeist. At least two PhD graduates from that university—and in economics, of all fields!—occupy senior positions in Trump’s entourage. About one of them, Elon Musk said that he is “dumber than a sack of bricks,” to which I would not strenuously object. Note that Harvard University is not just a factory of “radical leftists”; it also produces collectivists of the right.
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3 weeks ago |
econlib.org | Pierre Lemieux
Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, met Pope Francis on April 20, the day before the latter’s death. The meeting with the enfeebled pope was brief and did not touch upon their disagreement about President Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrants. Early this year, Francis had declared that the mass deportation plan “damages the dignity of many men and women” (“JD Vance Was Among Last to Meet Pope Francis,” Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2025).
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3 weeks ago |
econlib.org | Pierre Lemieux
Over more than two years, I have occasionally discussed my experience with AI bots—mainly ChatGPT, which I have also used for the featured images of my posts. But except in “TikTok, Godot, Absurd Politics, and Knaves,” I have not directly addressed the AI bot’s sense of humor, which has become rather impressive. Let me give other recent examples.
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3 weeks ago |
econlib.org | Pierre Lemieux
The economic case for submitting political power (“government”) to general laws that it must itself obey is, at bottom, simple: to blunt the incentives of rulers to become despotic or tyrannical toward a portion of the ruled. (They can’t tyrannize all the ruled because they need supporters and praetorians of different sorts.) Only those confident that they will be among the exploiters rather than the exploited could disagree with this benefit of the law.
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Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, met Pope Francis on April 20, the day before the latter’s death. The meeting with the enfeebled pope was brief and did not touch upon their disagreement about the treatment of immigrants. #Vance #PopeFrancis https://t.co/p2qmzZMqhh
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