The Free-range Economist
Dean V. WilliamsonFree-ranging. Saying things that need to be said. Accessible historical and economic analyses of the big issues. Agree, disagree, talk freely, be free.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Give Thanks for Our Western Heritage
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I post links to my annual Thanksgiving essay at the bottom of this short essay. But, first, some updated contextualization for 2025:
Finding Signals in the Public Health Noise
This essay features fifteen images (including twelve graphs) and is too long to encapsulate in a single email. Clicking on the title will enable the reader to read the entire essay online.
Crime in Trump’s DC – Update
The main proposition here is that the people who commit dumb, silly offenses tend to be the same ones who commit really dumb, serious offenses. So, policing the silly stuff cuts down sharply on the serious stuff.
Blessed Are the Humus Eaters
With my toes kneading the soil (the humus), I do my best to found myself—successfully or not—in the same “humus.” In the same Humility.
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Economist and historian just trying to identify good questions and to impose some structure on how to think about them. I spent 20 years inside the Washington Blob putting the "civil" and "service" in "Civil Service."
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