Long-haul truckers from the North Caucasus to Western Siberia began a protest against a new GPS-based federal road tax on November 11. Independent truckers formed slow-moving convoys that caused kilometer-long traffic jams throughout the affected regions.

Practically every day brings fresh proof that the people who aspire to govern us have no idea how it’s done. They can’t even cancel a gas plant, let alone deliver power reliably or improve the tax system. Can’t anybody here play this game?

If you have 250 million tons of food to give away every year to local food banks how should you do it? Canice Prendergast of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how he and a team of economists created an artificial currency and a daily auction for the national food bank Feeding America so that local food banks could bid on the types of food that were the most valuable to them.

Inequality & Economic Policy: Essays in Memory of Gary Becker, new from Hoover Institution Press, draws from a Hoover Institution conference last year on inequality in honor of late Bradley Prize recipient Gary S. Becker.