A woman in Spain has been declared the rightful owner of the sun and she plans to charge the rest of the world for “using” it; i.e., for in any way taking advantage of the heat or light emanating from it. This may sound ridiculous and somewhat humorous, but it is true.
I’m sure that Mr.Mohamud is a bad guy but a few paragraphs in this New York Times story add strange complications to the story, among which:
My C4SIF post The Perils of Centralized Innovation concerned a fascinating excerpt from The Master Switch by Tim Wu (excerpts on scribd and
In reaction to the growing public anger at the TSA and its “freedom fondles,” some pundits are rushing to the bureaucracy’s defense. An illustrative example is Marc Thiessen’s call for Americans to give thanks to the “men and women of the TSA who give up time with their families during the holidays to keep us safe from terror.”
I know nothing about the National Inflation Association, which made this video as a promotional, but this video is extremely compelling and effective.
“Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner” — a clever metaphorical descriptor of pure democracy sometimes attributed to that wellspring of clever metaphorical descriptors Benjamin Franklin. Other founding fathers were less clever and less metaphorical on democracy than Mr. Franklin, but just as damning nonetheless:
“A simple democracy … is one of the greatest of evils.” — Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
On this Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the prosperity we all enjoy. In a couple of my econ 100 classes on Tuesday, we spent a bit of time talking about how land-use restrictions affect both housing prices and the environment. An important point of departure between economics and an extreme form of ecocentric environmentalism that I have called “environmysticism” is that environmysticism holds preservation of nature as a moral end in itself while economics is the analysis of human action.
