Philosophy and Methodology

Daniel Kahneman (the psychologist who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2002) and Jonathan Renshon

The founders of social movements and schools of thought often try to distance themselves from their followers.

This is a fascinating review of Rothb

The evidence is only that jobholders and jobseekers are alike subject to a law which nature, perhaps unfortunately, has made universal. Like all the rest of us, they tend always to satisfy their needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Either libertarians would have to painfully make their way to developing an interest in history, current affairs, economics, political philosophy — in short, the real world, or else they would have to descend into a blissful silence (blissful that is, for the rest of us.)

The second noticeable consequence of the state's activity in everybody's business but its own is that its own business is monstrously neglected.

I’m sick of our economic whiners and their tear-stained statistics.

Ideas matter. More than we know. Why haven't we won? Because we are not doing enough and our ranks are not big enough. We need to do what we are doing on ever-grander scales. We need to make ever-better arguments on behalf of liberty. And we need to have patience, just like the prohibitionists and socialists had patience to see their agenda to the end.

Scrooge speaks: To hell with writers. They’re all the same.

I’ve never been a privacy freak. A tax freak, yes.