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Blog06/01/2007Jeffrey A. Tucker

I've been completely captivated by this series of interviews in which Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are brought on a set together to talk about the history of our times as it concerns technology, and their...

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This Bud's For You

Production Theory

Blog05/14/2007Peter G. Klein

[Cross posted at Organizations and Markets]

Most of my academic colleagues are anti-American food snobs. Why, those poor Yanks, they think Parmesan cheese is a white, powdery stuff in plastic cylinders rather...

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Wow! Economic Growth without Government!

Free MarketsProduction Theory

Blog05/11/2007N. Joseph Potts

Statism resounds in the last two paragraphs of this article (NO subscription required) in this...

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An Island of Pride In An Empty Sea

Production Theory

Blog05/02/2007B.K. Marcus

3/13/05

How strange to find pride of workmanship in this seaside casino where the trick is to get rich without working; unless you consider work the mashing of a red lighted button that says "spin wheel".

Surrounding the buffet, where I'm chewing on a moist sticky sweet macaroon are...

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Left Coast Road Socialism and the Market-friendly Governor

InterventionismProduction Theory

Blog04/30/2007B.K. Marcus

Yesterday afternoon, my friend, who has recently moved to the Left Coast, pointed to this blog to alert me to the fact that MacArthur Maze, "the complex of freeways where Berkeley, Oakland, San...

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Drop Errors and The Trouble with Peer Review

EntrepreneurshipPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryProduction Theory

Blog04/11/2007Jerry Kirkpatrick

In product development there are two kinds of errors. A "go" error occurs when the green light is given to a product that eventually fails. The Edsel, a $250 million write-off by the Ford Motor Company in 1959, is one example. The "drop" error occurs when an idea that could have been highly...

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Penn and Teller Send Up Wal-Mart Hatred

Media and CultureCapital and Interest TheoryProduction Theory

Blog04/07/2007Angelo Mike

Once again, Penn and Teller hilariously explode the myths and superstitions about capitalism with a healthy contempt and a plethora of curse words, so use discretion.

Here's Wal-Mart Hatred is Barbara S...

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A Suit of Conservative Principles

EducationPhilosophy and MethodologyProduction Theory

Blog04/02/2007 Mises.org

Life without international trade: using local labor and materials only, a suit takes 500 man-hours to produce. And it's not exactly high-quality. But what a great teaching project by Kelly Cobb of Drexel University.

Here's the story from...

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Success without the State

EntrepreneurshipProduction Theory

Blog03/25/2007Angelo Mike

A very nice pro-market commentary by Richard W. Rahn came out in today's Washington Times praising The Science of Success, a book covering "Charles Koch, who, along with his brother, David, built this...

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Security, public or private

Free MarketsEntrepreneurshipPolitical TheoryProduction Theory

Blog03/07/2007Jim Fedako

Traveled to a big city lately? If so, you must have gotten words of wisdom from someone close to you. Advice, such as: do not walk the streets after dark; and, beware of pickpockets. Sound advice indeed. However, let us look closer to what is being said, and what is not said.

Your sage...