1/31 Thomas Sowell on horses and buggies and Ford Has Worst Year Ever But Won’t Ask for Aid. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a Ford. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) And it surprises me to say, “the never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed […]
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4/30 In the name of entrepreneurship and innovation, let’s create another bureaucratic, rent-seeking government agency? Jeff Cornwall says Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Will Rogers. 4/29 Psychological limits and updating the “crow-epistemology” numbers: extraordinarily high incarceration rates and, given that much of it is a consequence of our wrong-headed war on drugs, links to this
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9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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10/31 In Der Spiegel: rewarding non-dictatorial politicians. And Victor Davis Hanson on TIA Daily.) 10/30 Professor David Mayer’s thorough explanation of the Rebekah’s anecdote from a small shop affected by the minimum wage. 10/28 At Slate: What were the net effects of Johan Norberg on globalisation. And in the Washington Post, Marcela Sanchez has an
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2/28 At the CEE, a profile socialized medicine is deadly. 2/27 The average American now has six weeks more leisure time per year compared to 1965. the connections between money and happiness. 2/24 Peter Beinart explains Gerald Baker weighs in heavily on the Summers affair. 2/23 At Scientific American, an extended review of voluntary military
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1/31 Well worth browsing: peripheral artists. 1/30 Frederick Douglass: “Everybody has asked the question . . . ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples
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6/30 David V. Cohn’s immediately before and after Tiananmen Square. And check out this inspiring poster, Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands. And here are Brett Holverstott’s fine Yahoo News, George Will, Tyler Cowen, and a number of posts by The Castle Coalition, a project of build a socially-useful hotel on Justice Souter’s
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4/30 Mathematical brilliance, hard work, and the serendipity of cultural networks combine to solve calculating the sometimes-awesome economic value of networks. (Thanks to Joe for the link.) 4/29 The web log of Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society. 4/28 Why rants on government-run health care. And for some good news: Hollywood’s anti-capitalist bias. (Note:
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3/31 At PointofLaw.com, a valuable collection of to-the-point columns on Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research and one from Jimmy Wales, the founder of the intriguing The Atlasphere.) 3/28 Non-bleeding-heart libertarian Bryan Caplan suggests conditional welfare for the poor: Marginal Revolution.) 3/26 A debate on free speech by law professors muzzle professors
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to FoucaultScholargy Publishing, 2004. The following scholarly reviews have been published:Professor Gary Jason in LibertyProfessor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here)Professor Marcus Verhaegh in The Independent ReviewDr. David Gordon in The Mises ReviewProfessor Max Hocutt in The Journal of Ayn Rand
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