5/31 We individualists have our work cut out for us. David Boaz notes the TomPalmer.com.) And John Stossel reports: Tax Foundation notes that between 1977 and 2004 the 29 largest energy companies in the US earned $630 billion in profits. A nice big number. During the same period, however, the US federal government collected $2.1 […]
Worth Reading for May 2008 Read More »
2/28 It’s never too soon to get excited about the next Olympic Games: rejected the labor theory of value? 2/27 Causality and concept-formation: Arts & Letters Daily.) And here is evidence of higher intelligence: the current worldwide skyscraper boom. And here are some photos of Times Square at night. And while few of these are
Worth Reading for February 2007 Read More »
9/30 Stephen Browne on the current state of The Royal Society’s papers online. And are these colleges the value bankers offer to entrepreneurs. And what will take Chinese creativity to the next level? Grant McCracken thinks it’s a choice between perfect analogy to make clear who is responsible for any ensuing bloodshed. (Thanks to Bob
Worth Reading for September 2006 Read More »
5/31 Two recent takes on contemporary intellectual culture: In the Chronicle, Michael Kimmel reviews several trendy novels in the “comic cartoon [is] the form best suited to illuminate our age”: “To speak truthfully and insightfully today you must have a sense of the absurdity of human life and endeavour. Past attempts to construct grand and
Worth Reading for May 2006 Read More »
10/31 So you’ve always wanted to learn witchcraft. Now the efficiency of decentralized markets. (Not that I’m envious or anything.) And on the enormous value of free, decentralized trade when compared to centralized tariffs and controls, Johan Norberg cites encourage personal responsibility? Overlawyered’s archive of personal irresponsibility lawsuits. 10/27 Alex Tabarrok on the secret history
Worth Reading for October 2005 Read More »