2019's Most Popular Posts

The "Key Posts" link in navigation at the top of my blog lists all important posts through the end of 2016. Along with "2017's Most Popular Posts" and “2018's Most Popular Posts,” this is intended as a complement to that list. (Also, my most popular storified Twitter discussions are here, and you can see other recent posts by clicking on the Archive link at the top of my blog.) Continuing this tradition, I give links to the most popular posts from 2019 below into six groups: popular new posts in 2019 on diet and health, popular new posts in 2019 on political philosophy, popular new posts in 2019 on other topics, and popular older posts in those three categories. I will put in the 2019 pageviews for each post when someone went specifically to that post.

I am pleased to be able to report 529,822 Google Analytics pageviews in the first half of 2019—over 10,000 pageviews per week. Of these, 38,858 were pageviews for my blog homepage. 

New Posts in 2019 on Diet and Health

  1. Miles Kimball on Diet and Health: A Reader's Guide 2,577

  2. 3 Achievable Resolutions for Weight Loss 2,026

  3. Kevin D. Hall and Juen Guo: Why it is so Hard to Lose Weight and so Hard to Keep it Off 1,930

  4. David Ludwig: It Takes Time to Adapt to a Lowcarb, Highfat Diet 1,410

  5. Lisa Drayer: Is Fasting the Fountain of Youth? 1,340

  6. Reexamining Steve Gundry's `The Plant Paradox’ 1,143

  7. Layne Norton Discusses the Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes Debate (a Debate on Joe Rogan’s Podcast) 1,087

  8. On Exercise and Weight Loss 1,050

  9. Andreas Michalsen on Fasting 779

  10. Don't Tar Fasting by those of Normal or High Weight with the Brush of Anorexia 700

  11. Data on Asian Genes that Discourage Alcohol Consumption Explode the Myth that a Little Alcohol is Good for your Health 538

  12. After Gastric Bypass Surgery, Insulin Goes Down Before Weight Loss has Time to Happen 426

  13. How Low Insulin Opens a Way to Escape Dieting Hell 379

  14. Hints About What Can Be Done to Reduce Alzheimer's Risk 341

  15. The Four Food Groups Revisited 339

  16. Eggs May Be a Type of Food You Should Eat Sparingly, But Don't Blame Cholesterol Yet 335

  17. Increasing Returns to Duration in Fasting 333

  18. On 'Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Understanding and Applying Health Benefits of Fasting' by Stephen D. Anton et al. 330

  19. How Not Getting Enough Sleep Messes You Up, Part 1 320

  20. David Ludwig, Walter Willett, Jeff Volek and Marian Neuhouser: Controversies and Consensus on Fat vs. Carbs 310

  21. Live Your Life So You Don't Need Much Self-Control 299

  22. Freakonomics: The Story of Bananas 292

  23. Jonathan Shaw: Could Inflammation Be the Cause of Myriad Chronic Diseases? 291

  24. A Low-Glycemic-Index Vegan Diet as a Moderately-Low-Insulin-Index Diet 281

  25. Mental Retirement: Use It or Lose It—Susann Rohwedder and Robert Willis 270

  26. The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model Wars 257

  27. Maintaining Weight Loss 255

  28. Christmas Dinner 2018 with the Kimballs in Colorado 237

  29. Eating Highly Processed Food is Correlated with Death 234

  30. The Benefits of Fasting are Looking So Clear People Try to Mimic Fasting without Fasting 225

  31. Framingham State Food Study: Lowcarb Diets Make Us Burn More Calories 221

  32. How Weight Loss Happens: Mass In/Mass Out Revisited 210

  33. In Praise of Flavored Sparkling Water 201

  34. Biohacking: Nutrition as Technology 199

  35. On the Epistemology of Diet and Health: Miles Refuses to `Stay in His Lane’ 196

  36. Crafting Simple, Accurate Messages about Complex Problems 173

  37. Sutton, Beyl, Early, Cefalu, Ravussin and Peterson: Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes 173

  38. Nutritionally, Not All Apple Varieties Are Alike 171

  39. Cost Benefit Analysis Applied to Neti Pot Use 157

  40. Less Than 6 or More than 9 Hours of Sleep Signals a Higher Risk of Heart Attacks 153

  41. Fighting the Common Cold 148

  42. Critiquing `All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality with Low-Carbohydrate Diets' by Mohsen Mazidi, Niki Katsiki, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Naveed Sattar and Maciej Banach 145

  43. What is the Evidence on Dietary Fat? 134

  44. How Unhealthy are Red and Processed Meat? 129

  45. Should the Typical Person be Restricting Salt Intake? 123

  46. Is 10,000 Steps a Day More Than is Necessary for Health? 121

  47. Should Those Whose Main Symptom is Chest Pains Get Stent or Bypass Surgery? 116

  48. Does Reducing Saturated Fat Reduce Cardiovascular Disease? 115

  49. Cancer Cells Love Sugar; That’s How PET Scans for Cancer Work 108

  50. Another Problem with Processed Food: Propionate 96

New Posts in 2019 on Political Philosophy

  1. John Locke's Argument for Limited Government 1,647

  2. John Locke on Why the Executive and Legislative Power Should Be Separated, but the Executive and Foreign Policy Power Should Be Combined 1,233

  3. John Locke: How to Recognize a Tyrant 1,133

  4. Governments Long Established Should Not—and to a Good Approximation Will Not—Be Changed for Light and Transient Causes 603

  5. John Locke: How to Resist Tyrants without Causing Anarchy 584

  6. John Locke on the Supremacy of the People, the Supremacy of the Legislature over the Executive, and the Power of the Executive to Deal with Rotten Boroughs 344

  7. On Despotism 328

  8. The Federalist Papers #1: Alexander Hamilton's Plea for Reasoned Debate 200

  9. Getting Away with Doing Good 165

  10. The People Have the Right to Erect a New Government When the Previous Government Betrays the Trust It Has Been Given 161

  11. John Locke on Monarchs (Or Presidents) Who Destroy a Constitution 159

  12. Miles Kimball on John Locke's Second Treatise 155

  13. John Locke: The Obligation to Obey the Law Does Not Apply to Laws Promulgated by Invaders and Usurpers Who Do Not Have the Consent of the Governed 132

  14. John Locke Against Tyranny 120

  15. The Federalist Papers #2 A: John Jay on the Idea of America 111

  16. John Locke: Usurpation is a Kind of Domestic Conquest, with this Difference, that an Usurper Can Never Have Right on His Side 107

  17. John Locke: The People are the Judge of the Rulers 107

  18. John Locke: If Rebellion is a Sin, It is a Sin Committed Most Often by Those in Power 97

  19. John Locke: Bad Rulers May Be Removed 90

New Posts in 2019 on Other Topics

  1. In Honor of Alan Krueger 8,801

  2. Adding a Variable Measured with Error to a Regression Only Partially Controls for that Variable 3,559

  3. The Costs of Inflation 2,476

  4. 2019 First Half's Most Popular Posts 2,636

  5. Who Leaves Mormonism? 1,160

  6. Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base: How the Fed Currently Determines Interest Rates 1,016

  7. A Liberal Turn in the Mormon Church 818

  8. Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball—Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide 813

  9. Christian Kimball on Middle-Way Mormonism 427

  10. New Evidence on the Genetics of Homosexuality 410

  11. Deeper Learning in Macroeconomics 405

  12. An Optical Illusion: Nativity Scene or Two T-Rex's Fighting over a Table Saw? 383

  13. How Negative Interest Rates Affect the Economy 348

  14. Hessler, Pöpping, Hollstein, Ohlenburg, Arnemann, Massoth, Seidel, Zarbock and Wenk: Availability of Cookies During an Academic Course Session Affects Evaluation of Teaching 324

  15. Co-Active Coaching as a Tool for Maximizing Utility—Getting Where You Want in Life 312

  16. On Being a Copy of Someone's Mind 303

  17. In Honor of Martin Weitzman 303

  18. Chris Kimball: Grief in the Journey 301

  19. Against Narcissism 295

  20. What Monetary Policy Can and Can't Do 291

  21. Measuring Learning Outcomes from Getting an Economics Degree 256

  22. Chris Kimball on `A Liberal Turn in the Mormon Church' 235

  23. Against the Gold Standard 234

  24. Claudia Sahm's Anti-Recession Rule 226

  25. Reza Moghadam Flags 'Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions' in the Financial Times 225

  26. On Habit Formation 224

  27. The Economist: Why is Chicken So Cheap? 221

  28. Deeper Negative Rates Can Ward Off Secular Stagnation 216

  29. Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist: The Argument for Expanding Nuclear Power 215

  30. Marriage 103 212

  31. Will Your Uploaded Mind Still Be You? —Michael Graziano 212

  32. Q&A on the Idea of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund 206

  33. Chris Kimball: The Language of Doubt 199

  34. Andy Matuschak: Why Books Don't Work (linkpost) 197

  35. Give Central Banks Independence and New Political Pressures to Balance the Old Ones 189

  36. National Well-Being Indexes and Goodhart’s Law 174

  37. Teens are Too Suspicious for Anything But the Truth about Drugs to Work 167

  38. Job Posting for a Full-Time Research Assistant with a Bachelor's Degree to Help with the Research Needed to Build a National Well-Being Index, Starting Late Summer 2020 162

  39. Kenneth W. Phifer: Is Death Meaningful? 157

  40. Why a Positive Aggregate Demand Shock Should Make the Stock Market Go Down If the Fed is Doing Its Job Right 157

  41. Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs is Harder than You Think—Jacob Westfall and Tal Yarkoni 146

  42. Andrew Biggs and Miles Kimball Debate Retirement Savings Policy 142

  43. Larry Summers Says the Fed Should Move Fast to Cut Rates 140

  44. Dan Ariely: The Power of Morning, Time Together and Positive Feedback 133

  45. Peter Conti-Brown: Can Trump Fire Jerome Powell? 132

  46. Donald Trump May Finally Get People to Realize the Fed is Responsible for What Happens with the Business Cycle, Not the President or Congress 131

  47. Christof Koch: Will Machines Ever Become Conscious? 130

  48. Noah Smith on Blocking Twitter Trolls 123

  49. FocusEconomics: Predictions for the Global Economy in 2019 from 13 Experts 117

  50. Miles Kimball's Presentation on Negative Interest Rate Policy to the National Association of Business Economists 117

  51. Prospect Magazine: The World's Top 50 Thinkers in 2019 117

  52. Can Religion Reduce Suicide? 113

  53. Ken Rogoff Defends a Robust Negative Rate Policy at Hoover 112

  54. Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball about Macroeconomic Stabilization: Negative Rates and Sovereign Wealth Funds 111

  55. Brian Flaxman—A Tale of Bipartisanship and Financial Interests: The Taxpayer First Act of 2019 109

  56. Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates Meets the Mormons 103

  57. Where is Social Science Genetics Headed? 99

  58. FocusEconomics: How and When will the Next Financial Crisis Happen?—26 Experts Weigh In 96

  59. One Nation 96

  60. In Honor of Marvin Goodfriend 93

  61. JP Koning on Ill-Considered Government Policies Standing in the Way of the Emergence of the Digital Cash that Can Eliminate Any Lower Bound on Interest Rates 93

  62. On the Effability of the Ineffable 93

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Diet and Health

  1. Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid  51,454

  2. How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed  32,302

  3. Which Nonsugar Sweeteners are OK? An Insulin-Index Perspective 15,533

  4. Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet  12,731

  5. Whole Milk Is Healthy; Skim Milk Less So  10,853

  6. Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index  7,507

  7. Obesity Is Always and Everywhere an Insulin Phenomenon  5,356

  8. The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes  5,306

  9. Evidence that High Insulin Levels Lead to Weight Gain 4,610

  10. Stop Counting Calories; It's the Clock that Counts  4,566

  11. What Steven Gundry's Book 'The Plant Paradox' Adds to the Principles of a Low-Insulin-Index Diet 4015

  12. Intense Dark Chocolate: A Review  2,920

  13. Jason Fung's Single Best Weight Loss Tip: Don't Eat All the Time 2,318

  14. Five Books That Have Changed My Life  2,144

  15. The Keto Food Pyramid 1,951

  16. Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too?  1,663

  17. Why You Should Worry about Cancer Promotion by Diet as Much as You Worry about Cancer Initiation by Carcinogens 1,505

  18. Our Delusions about 'Healthy' Snacks—Nuts to That! 1,441

  19. My Annual Anti-Cancer Fast 1,349

  20. Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It 1,311

  21. 4 Propositions on Weight Loss 1,186

  22. Letting Go of Sugar 1,139

  23. Vindicating Gary Taubes: A Smackdown of Seth Yoder 1,132

  24. My Giant Salad 1,088

  25. Good News! Cancer Cells are Metabolically Handicapped 1,021

  26. Best Health Guide: 10 Surprising Changes When You Quit Sugar 960

  27. The Problem with Processed Food 933

  28. Exorcising the Devil in the Milk 832

  29. Yes, Sugar is Really Bad for You 809

  30. Which Is Worse for You: Sugar or Fat? 689

  31. Sugar as a Slow Poison 654

  32. Salt Is Not the Nutritional Evil It Is Made Out to Be 613

  33. How Sugar, Too Much Protein, Inflammation and Injury Could Drive Epigenetic Cellular Evolution Toward Cancer 537

  34. Diseases of Civilization 526

  35. 'Is Milk Ok?' Revisited 513

  36. The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes 508

  37. A Barycentric Autobiography 400

  38. Is Milk OK? 385

  39. Carola Binder—Why You Should Get More Vitamin D: The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D Was Underestimated Due to Statistical Illiteracy 381

  40. Mass In/Mass Out: A Satire of Calories In/Calories Out 373

  41. In Praise of Avocados 337

  42. Nina Teicholz on the Bankruptcy of Counting Calories 328

  43. Anthony Komaroff: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes 316

  44. How Sugar Makes People Hangry 264

  45. Eating on the Road 257

  46. Hints for Healthy Eating from the Nurses’ Health Study 251

  47. Black Bean Brownies 226

  48. Evidence that Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain 199

  49. The Trouble with Most Psychological Approaches to Weight Loss: They Assume the Biology is Obvious, When It Isn't 176

  50. A Conversation with David Brazel on Obesity Research 158

  51. Heidi Turner, Michael Schwartz and Kristen Domonell on How Bad Sugar Is 134

  52. Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners 124

  53. Gary Taubes Makes His Case to Nick Gillespie: How Big Sugar and a Misguided Government Wrecked the American Diet 124

  54. Magic Bullets vs. Multifaceted Interventions for Economic Stimulus, Economic Development and Weight Loss 114

  55. The Heavy Non-Health Consequences of Heaviness 106

  56. Does Sugar Make Dietary Fat Less OK? 93

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Political Philosophy

  1. The Social Contract According to John Locke  47,916

  2. John Locke: Freedom is Life; Slavery Can Be Justified Only as a Reprieve from Deserved Death  4,398

  3. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Freedom of Speech  4,257

  4. John Locke on Punishment 2,793

  5. On John Locke's Labor Theory of Property 2,747

  6. John Locke's Argument for Majority Rule 2,241

  7. John Locke: The Purpose of Law Is Freedom 2,168

  8. John Locke's State of Nature and State of War 1,783

  9. Liberty and the Golden Rule 1,712

  10. John Stuart Mill on Freedom from Religion 1,490

  11. On the Achilles Heel of John Locke's Second Treatise: Slavery and Land Ownership 1,451

  12. John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers 1,168

  13. Freedom Under Law Means All Are Subject to the Same Laws 1,122

  14. John Locke: The Only Legitimate Power of Governments is to Articulate the Law of Nature 1,121

  15. John Locke: When the Police and Courts Can't or Won't Take Care of Things, People Have the Right to Take the Law Into Their Own Hands 1,086

  16. John Locke on Legitimate Political Power 1,046

  17. Human Beings as Social—and Trading—Animals 1,026

  18. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom 796

  19. John Locke on the Equality of Humans 780

  20. John Locke Against Natural Hierarchy 744

  21. John Locke: The Public Good 720

  22. Democracy is Not Freedom 706

  23. John Locke: Government by the Consent of the Governed Often Began Out of Respect for Someone Trusted to Govern 699

  24. John Locke: Democracy, Oligarchy, Hereditary Monarchy, Elective Monarchy and Mixed Forms of Government 690

  25. John Locke's Smackdown of Robert Filmer: Being a Father Doesn't Make Any Man a King 623

  26. Cass Sunstein on the Rule of Law 584

  27. John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases 584

  28. John Locke: Legitimate Taxation and other Appropriation of Property by the Government is Limited as to Quantity, Procedure and Purpose 521

  29. John Stuart Mill on Balancing Christian Morality with the Wisdom of the Greeks and Romans 500

  30. The Metaphor of a Nation as a Family 466

  31. John Stuart Mill: In Praise of Eccentricity 459

  32. John Stuart Mill: In the Parent-Child Relationship, It is the Children that Have Rights, Not the Parents 457

  33. John Stuart Mill: Two Maxims for Liberty 454

  34. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Thought 434

  35. An Experiment with Equality of Outcome: The Case of Jamestown 431

  36. John Locke Explains 'Lord of the Flies' 416

  37. John Locke: The Right to Enforce the Law of Nature Does Not Depend on Any Social Contract 403

  38. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Individuality 381

  39. John Locke Treats the Bible as an Authority on Slavery 349

  40. John Stuart Mill on the Protection of "Noble Lies" from Criticism 332

  41. John Stuart Mill on the Role of Custom in Human Life 324

  42. Social Liberty 317

  43. John Stuart Mill Applies the Principles of Liberty 316

  44. John Locke: We Are All Born Free 291

  45. John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual 282

  46. John Stuart Mill on Public and Private Actions 282

  47. John Locke: The Law of Nature Requires Maturity to Discern 274

  48. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Contract 273

  49. John Stuart Mill on the Chief Interest of the History of Mankind: The Love of Liberty and Improvement vs. Custom 271

  50. John Locke and the Share of Land 267

  51. John Stuart Mill on the Gravity of Divorce 261

  52. John Stuart Mill on Rising Above Mediocrity 259

  53. John Locke: Defense against the Black Hats is the Origin of the State 247

  54. John Stuart Mill: The Central Government Should Be Slow to Overrule, but Quick to Denounce Bad Actions of Local Governments 246

  55. John Locke: By Natural Law, Husbands Have No Power Over Their Wives 235

  56. John Stuart Mill: How Laws Against Self-Harm Backfire 232

  57. John Locke: Lions and Wolves and Enemies, Oh My 229

  58. John Stuart Mill on Sins of Omission 228

  59. John Locke: The Law Must Apply to Rulers, Too 215

  60. John Stuart Mill’s Roadmap for Freedom 214

  61. John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite 209

  62. John Stuart Mill on the Historical Origins of Liberty 206

  63. John Locke: No One is Above the Law, which Must Be Established and Promulgated and Designed for the Good of the People; Taxes and Governmental Succession Require Approval of Elected Representatives 204

  64. John Stuart Mill on Benevolent Dictators 194

  65. John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do 192

  66. John Stuart Mill on Having a Day of Rest and Recreation 187

  67. John Locke on the Mandate of Heaven 180

  68. The Rise and Fall of Venice 180

  69. John Stuart Mill on Being Offended at Other People's Opinions or Private Conduct 169

  70. John Locke Off Base with His Assumption That There Was Plenty of Land at the Time of Acquisition 167

  71. John Stuart Mill on Puritanism 167

  72. John Locke: Property in the State of Nature 166

  73. John Locke: Theft as the Little Murder 164

  74. John Stuart Mill on China's Technological Lost Centuries 161

  75. Vigilantes in the State of Nature 155

  76. Paul Finkelman: The Monster of Monticello 152

  77. John Stuart Mill's Argument Against Political Correctness 148

  78. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom of Religion for Mormons as an Argument for Chartering Libertarian Enclaves 145

  79. Democratic Injustice 144

  80. John Locke: Law Is Only Legitimate When It Is Founded on the Law of Nature 142

  81. John Locke: Rivalry in Consumption Makes Private Property Unavoidable 132

  82. John Locke Looks for a Better Way than Believing in the Divine Right of Kings or Power to the Strong 131

  83. In Praise of Trolls 124

  84. John Stuart Mill: People Should Be Allowed to Govern Their Own Lives Because They Care More and Know More about Themselves Than Anyone Else Does 120

  85. Edmund Burke's Wisdom 119

  86. John Stuart Mill on Humans vs. the Lesser Robots 119

  87. If the Justice System Does Not Try to Deliver Justice, We Are in a State of War 113

  88. John Stuart Mill: We Are Ethically Responsible for the Harm We Do to Others, Even When That Harm Stems from First Doing Harm to Ourselves 111

  89. John Stuart Mill on the Need to Make the Argument for Freedom of Speech 107

  90. Genius Can Only Breathe Freely in an Atmosphere of Freedom 107

  91. John Locke on Diminishing Marginal Utility as a Limit to Legitimately Claiming Works of Nature as Property 100

  92. John Stuart Mill: Making the Government More Powerful than Necessary is Inimical to Freedom 99

  93. John Stuart Mill and C. S. Lewis on Originality 97

  94. John Locke: Thinking of Mothers and Fathers On a Par Undercuts a Misleading Autocratic Metaphor 96

  95. John Stuart Mill on Raising the Next Generation 94

  96. On Consent Beginning from a Free and Equal Condition 90

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Other Topics

  1. The 7 Principles of Unitarian Universalism 14,356

  2. William Strauss and Neil Howe's American Prophecy in 'The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny' 3,075

  3. William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist  2,394

  4. Five Books That Have Changed My Life  2,144

  5. Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 2,067

  6. How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide  1,945

  7. The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate 1,806

  8. There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't  (with Noah Smith) 1,610

  9. The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 1,565

  10. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates  1,655

  11. On Teaching and Learning Macroeconomics  1,425

  12. The Shards of My Heart 1,287

  13. Why I Write 1,181

  14. Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice 1,152

  15. There Is No Such Thing as Decreasing Returns to Scale  1,094

  16. Government Purchases vs. Government Spending 1,064

  17. Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences 1,052

  18. The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program 1043

  19. Why Taxes are Bad 1,016

  20. An Agnostic Prayer for Strength 952

  21. Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition in Market Equilibrium 862

  22. What is the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates Made Of? 845

  23. How to Turn Every Child into a 'Math Person' 783

  24. The Descent—and the Divine Calling—of the Modernists 760

  25. Noah Smith: You Are Already in the Afterlife 748

  26. Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information 716

  27. Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice 705

  28. Netflix as an Example of Clay Christensen's 'Disruptive Innovation' 682

  29. The Volcker Shock 637

  30. Expansionist India 619

  31. On Having a Thesis 611

  32. The Most Effective Memory Methods are Difficult—and That's Why They Work 596

  33. Even Central Bankers Need Lessons on the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 565

  34. Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com 561

  35. Godless Religion 539

  36. On Master's Programs in Economics 528

  37. David Pagnucco: The Eurozone and the Impossible Trinity 512

  38. What is a Supply-Side Liberal? 509

  39. David Byrne: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 500

  40. Fight the Backlash Against Retirement Saving Nudges: Everyone Benefits When People Save More for Old Age 475

  41. Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too 460

  42. Robert Shiller: Against the Efficient Markets Theory 439

  43. Noah Smith: Buddha Was Wrong About Desire 425

  44. Cognitive Economics 415

  45. The Message of “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” 404

  46. The Mormon View of Jesus 401

  47. Greg Shill: Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities? 400

  48. Why GDP Can Grow Forever 378

  49. Will Women Ever Get the Mormon Priesthood? 350

  50. Critical Reading: Apprentice Level 348

  51. Brio in Blog Posts 343

  52. Next Generation Monetary Policy 339

  53. Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie 341

  54. How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation 324

  55. 18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound 323

  56. Franklin Roosevelt on the Second Industrial Revolution 318

  57. Negative Interest Rate Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: Full Text 316

  58. The Unavoidability of Faith 307

  59. The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 304

  60. Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 301

  61. Rodney Stark on the Status of Women in Early Christianity 299

  62. The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 286

  63. Why I Am Not a Neoliberal 284

  64. Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment 283

  65. False Advertising for College is Pretty Much the Norm 278

  66. Chris Kimball: Having a Prophet in the Family 256

  67. Miles Moves to the University of Colorado Boulder 246

  68. Hannah Katz: The Pros and Cons of Tipping Culture 244

  69. The Mormon Church Decides to Treat Gay Marriage as Rebellion on a Par with Polygamy 244

  70. Less is More in Mormon Church Meetings 240

  71. Nicholas Kristof: "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" 237

  72. Peter Conti-Brown's Takedown of Danielle DiMartino Booth's Book "Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America" 233

  73. The Mystery of Consciousness 222

  74. Heroes of Science Action Figures 220

  75. Legitimate Power and Authority 213

  76. Marriage—Not for the Faint of Heart 212

  77. Noah Smith: Why Do Americans Like Jews and Dislike Mormons? 211

  78. Matthew Shapiro, Martha Bailey and Tilman Borgers on the Economics Job Market Rumors Website 208

  79. Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates 208

  80. An Agnostic Grace 202

  81. Markus Brunnermeier and Yann Koby's "Reversal Interest Rate" 198

  82. International Finance: A Primer 193

  83. The Egocentric Illusion 192

  84. John L. Davidson on Resolving the House Mystery: The Institutional Realities of House Construction 192

  85. Barack Obama: Football as the Best Sports Analogy for Politics 188

  86. Miles Kimball - Google Scholar Citations 187

  87. Restoring American Growth: The Video 187

  88. One of the Biggest Threats to America's Future Has the Easiest Fix 186

  89. The Message of Jesus for Non-Supernaturalists 184

  90. How Albert Einstein Became a Celebrity 184

  91. How the Original Sin of Borrowing in a Foreign Currency Can Reduce the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy for Both the Borrowing and Lending Country 183

  92. Must All Economics Papers Be Doorstoppers? 180

  93. Gather ’round, Children, Here’s How to Heal a Wounded Economy 174

  94. Christian Kimball: Revelation and Satan 171

  95. How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide 169

  96. Higher Inflation Is Not the Answer 165

  97. Marriage 101 165

  98. Charles Murray on Taking Religion Seriously 163

  99. Marriage 102 162

  100. Odious Wealth: The Outrage is Not So Much Over Inequality but All the Dubious Ways the Rich Got Richer 161

  101. Optimal Monetary Policy: Could the Next Big Idea Come from the Blogosphere? 159

  102. Clay Christensen, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang on the Three Basic Types of Business Models 159

  103. Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance 156

  104. Miles's April 9, 2006 Unitarian Universalist Sermon: ‘UU Visions’ 156

  105. Noah Smith—The Fight of the Ages: Pain and Death 152

  106. My Dad 150

  107. How I Became Optimistic 150

  108. An Agnostic Invocation 149

  109. Owen Nie: Monetary Policy in Colonial New York, New Jersey and Delaware 148

  110. Dynamic Map of Europe from 1000 A.D. to 1900 148

  111. Should the U.S. Dollar Be Weak or Strong? 147

  112. The Coming Transformation of Education: Degrees Won’t Matter Anymore, Skills Will 146

  113. Leveling Up: Making the Transition from Poor Country to Rich Country 145

  114. Electronic Money: The Powerpoint File 143

  115. How Conservative Mormon America Avoided the Fate of Conservative White America 143

  116. Michael Huemer's Immigration Parable 139

  117. My Objective Function 138

  118. America's Big Monetary Policy Mistake: How Negative Interest Rates Could Have Stopped the Great Recession in Its Tracks 138

  119. The Swiss National Bank May Need to Cut Its Target Rate Further Now That It Could Get In Trouble with the US If It Keeps Buying So Many Foreign Assets 136

  120. Live: Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 133

  121. Discounting Government Projects 131

  122. Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball about Establishing an International Capital Flow Framework 131

  123. How to Handle Worries about the Effect of Negative Interest Rates on Bank Profits with Two-Tiered Interest-on-Reserves Policies 130

  124. Jacob Bastian and Maggie Jones: Do EITC Expansions Pay for Themselves? Effects on Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending

  125. The Racist Origins of the Idea of the "Dumb Jock" 130

  126. Andrew Carnegie on Cost-Cutting 129

  127. On the Great Recession 127

  128. Going Negative: The Virtual Fed Funds Rate Target 125

  129. Safe, Legal, Rare and Early 125

  130. Noah Smith: Mom in Hell 122

  131. So What If We Don't Change at All…and Something Magical Just Happens? 121

  132. Noah Smith: Sunni Islam is Failing 119

  133. The Extensive Margin: How to Simultaneously Raise Quality and Lower Tuition at Elite Public Universities 119

  134. Is Nuclear Energy Safe? Well, Which One? 119

  135. Can Taxes Raise GDP? 118

  136. So You Want to Save the World 118

  137. Responding to Joseph Stiglitz on Negative Interest Rates 116

  138. The Litany Against Fear 115

  139. Books on Economics 114

  140. Economist Twitter Stars 113

  141. Q&A: Is Electronic Money the Mark of the Beast? 112

  142. Enabling Deeper Negative Rates by Managing the Side Effects of a Zero Paper Currency Interest Rate: The Video 112

  143. Division of Labor in Track-and-Hook Songwriting 112

  144. When the Output Gap is Zero, But Inflation is Below Target 112

  145. A Conversation with Clint Folsom, Mayor of Superior, Colorado 112

  146. Diana Kimball: Listening Creates Possibilities 111

  147. Inside Mormonism: The Home Teachers Come Over 110

  148. Eric Weinstein: Genius Is Not the Same Thing as Excellence 110

  149. Gabriela D'Souza on Failure in Learning Math 110

  150. Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball on the Value of Sovereign Wealth Funds for Economic Stabilization 110

  151. Eric Schlosser on the Underground Economy 109

  152. The Costs and Benefits of Repealing the Zero Lower Bound...and Then Lowering the Long-Run Inflation Target 109

  153. Facebook Convo on Women in Economics 108

  154. How Increasing Retirement Saving Could Give America More Balanced Trade 108

  155. David Holland on the Mormon Church During the February 3, 2008–January 2, 2018 Monson Administration 108

  156. Rodney Stark’s Contrarian Assessment of the Crusades 107

  157. Negative Rates and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level 107

  158. Wallace Neutrality and Ricardian Neutrality 107

  159. ‘The Hunger Games’ Is Hardly Our Future--It's Already Here 105

  160. Robert Eisler—Stable Money: The Remedy for the Economic World Crisis 104

  161. An Agnostic Prayer for Awareness 103

  162. Manifesto #1: I Am Enough 102

  163. New Mormon Prophet Russell Nelson Shakes Things Up 102

  164. Why Scott Fullwiler Misses the Point in ‘Why Negative Nominal Interest Rates Miss the Point’ 100

  165. How Did Evolution Give Us Religion? 100

  166. Signalling When Everyone Knows about Last-Place Aversion: An Application to Economics Job Market Rumors 100

  167. Fields Medal Winner Maryam Mirzakhani's Slow-Cooked Math 100

  168. Barbara Oakley: How We Should Be Teaching Math 100

  169. Matt Stoller: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul 99

  170. Noah Smith: Islam Needs To Separate Church and State 98

  171. Christian Kimball on the Fallibility of Mormon Leaders and on Gay Marriage 97

  172. Robert L. Woodson Sr. on Helping the Poor 96

  173. Oren Cass on the Value of Work 95

  174. What is a Partisan Nonpartisan Blog? 95

  175. Paul Krugman on John Taylor and Admitting Error 94

  176. Annie Atherton: I Tried 7 Different Morning Routines — Here’s What Made Me Happiest (direct link) 94

  177. Christian Kimball: Anger [1], Marriage [2], and the Mormon Church [3] 93

  178. Rodney Stark: Historians Ought to Count—But Often Don’t 91

  179. Selfishness and the Fall of Rome 91

  180. Big Brother Speaks: Christian Kimball on Mitt Romney 91

  181. Why We Want More Jobs 90