Adam Smith

Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess)

9 Comments / Economics, Ethics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Putting into one flowchart what I have learned from Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock. The flowchart is in spreadsheet format: the short version and the long version in Excel 2007 or in Excel 97-2003. Update: DJ Dates has a cool, scalable Google maps version […]

Pathologies of the mixed economy (or, How we got into this frackin’ mess) Read More »

Worth Reading for March 2007

Leave a Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Christopher Hitchens and Infidel was published in February. 3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto: worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall

Worth Reading for March 2007 Read More »