Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. – Page 291

Before the 2008 financial crisis: increasing or decreasing regulation?

1 Comment / Business, Economics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

In my “Where are all those free-market economists who caused the financial crisis?”, I cited survey results showing that very few professional economists are deregulation advocates, and I cited data indicating an increase in regulation in the lead-up to the crisis. Here is Regdata’s more recent “Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis? Examining a Common […]

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Trump’s Call to Eliminate Government Art Funding

2 Comments / Art, Business, Politics / Stephen Hicks

[A discussion post.] President Trump’s now-serious proposal to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities has elicited the first round of responses ranging from Philistine! to It’s about time! Both agencies were created in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson, who said at the time: “it is necessary and

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Entrepreneurial Education conference — next week

Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy [Good Life series]

1 Comment / Education, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and

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Olympe de Gouges’s 1791 declaration of women’s rights

1 Comment / History, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Olympe de Gouges’s first-wave feminism and her The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791). The first two items: “1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. 2. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible

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Art that screams for attention — progress in postmodern art

Leave a Comment / Art, Humor / Stephen Hicks

At the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Marina Abramović hired a man to lie on a bed and scream for 2.5 hours (or until his voice gives out, according to the show’s pamphlet). Nearby, at the Finglefarber Asylum for the Touchingly Insane, one may also hear a bedded man screaming — but the two

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