The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100 million that he's right " - describes Pickens'...
The Library of Economics and Liberty has just posted a new hour+ podcast featuring Bruce Yandle. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/10/yandle_on_the_t.html " Bruce Yandle of Clemson University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center looks at the tragedy of the commons and the various...
[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/story/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to Dan. I take the liberty of posting that response here, revised slightly and with a few further comments. Too many...