Richard B. McKenzie

1 month ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Kelly-Ann Kiernan |Rory Cassidy |Richard B. McKenzie

Zhenhao Zou, who is Chinese, came to the UK to study mechanical engineering. A "smart and charming" PhD student who moved to the UK from China to study mechanical engineering has been exposed as a sex beast who preyed on women, drugging and raping at least 10. Zhenhao Zou was said to "present as a smart and charming young man" but is "also a persistent sexual predator; a voyeur and a rapist", a court heard. He was found to have attacked women in London and China between 2019 and 2023.

2 months ago | econlib.org | Scott Sumner |Richard B. McKenzie |Pierre Lemieux

Among economists on the other side of the political spectrum, Jason Furman has always been one of my favorites. He has a new article in Foreign Affairs entitled The Post-Neoliberal Delusion, which evaluates the economic policies of the Biden administration. In a number of specific cases, he supports Biden administration policies.

2 months ago | econlib.org | Richard B. McKenzie |Pierre Lemieux |Scott Sumner

The historic—and horrific—fires that have decimated Los Angeles-area neighborhoods have been attributed to obvious causes, not the least of which include the two recent “wet years” that increased vegetation growth on hillsides and in backyards, followed by the last twelve months of drought that turned the added foliage into highly combustible fire fuel.

Jan 15, 2025 | econlib.org | David Henderson |Kevin Corcoran |Richard B. McKenzie

I came across this article that I wrote over 20 years ago for a Canadian audience. It’s a propos now. I’ve made only small edits. The main problem with the union of Canada and the United States is that it would reduce the number of competing political jurisdictions in the world. This is almost always bad. The more political jurisdictions we have competing for residents, the less oppressive any one of them can be.

Jan 15, 2025 | econlib.org | Richard B. McKenzie |Gordon Tullock |Scott Sumner |Jon Murphy

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-Elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, intend to reduce federal spending by $2 trillion (over an undisclosed time period), along with a substantial reduction in the federal workforce. Musk, Ramaswamy, and their army of unpaid volunteer cost-cutters will likely fall miserably short of their admirable goals—for reasons that have been developed among public-choice economists over decades.