Max Borders: The Hobbit v. Big Labor, Importing Ideas and the Rich-Poor Gap

Imported ideas for Republicans? Find them here.

The rent-seekers have come to infest Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. 

There's a gap between rich and poor. And it's growing. So what?

Plus, this week at Ideas Matter: 

Me and the Regulatory State

Douglass North on complementary institutions.

Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers, Baptists and Bureaucrats.

Ideas Matter and The Long Tail.