The War on Prices
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JD Vance’s Problem Is with Your Choices, Not GDP
JD Vance’s book Communion devotes a chapter to arguing that policymakers have spent decades chasing GDP at the expense of his version of the greater good. I wrote earlier this week to show what Vance gets wrong about the country’s economic...
JD Vance’s Feared ‘Cult of Growth’ Has Never Run America
JD Vance’s new book, Communion, includes a chapter railing against economists. The central thesis of his chapter “A Dismal Science” is that the government has preoccupied itself with GDP maximization at the expense of well-being. Americans...
Wealth Taxes in America?
On the Cato podcast this week, I sat down with Adam Michel to discuss the American Left’s growing appetite for wealth taxes. We cover the case being made for a wealth tax in California, the distortions that could arise when Americans are fo...
That Economists' Statement About AI
On the Cato podcast this week, I hosted the great John Cochrane to talk through last week’s statement by prominent economists about AI. In the episode, we discuss whether job displacement is the biggest AI risk, the dangers of government “s...
Ordinary Americans Aren’t Hipster Antitrusters
Antitrust populists often treat corporate size and market concentration as presumptive evidence that something has gone wrong in a market.
New Brandeisian critics of the consumer-welfare standard want antitrust enforcers to give much great...
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My name is Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at Cato. Weekly column for The Times (UK). Author, Economics In One Virus and editor of The War on Prices.
Research Fellow @Cato CMFA | PhD in Economics from UC Irvine | Research in monetary policy and macro-finance.
Research Associate at Cato.
General Economics Intern, Spring 2026
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