The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran this article: Make it a super size, then call your lawyer Battle of the bulge targets restaurants about the plans of some of the same lawyers who sued the tobacco industry for selling unhealthy products to go after the food industry and individual restaruants for selling rich, high-fat foods. “We’re going to get (a lawsuit) to stick and I will guarantee you that within five years . . .
Robert Blumen links to this piece by Michael Pollan from the New York Times. It is a remarkable article in many ways. It praises the New Deal for raising the price of ag products and cutting back dramatically on supply—in an economic depression. He then blasts current farm policy for subsidizing too much production.As a partial verification that Adam Smith should not be thought of the as founder of free-market economics (Rothbard’s critique in his History of Thought), and a major confirmation of the misdirection of effort by much of the economics profession, Bantam Books choose Professor Krueger to write an introduction to a new reprint of the Wealth of Nations. As quoted in “Recommendations for Further Reading”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, summer 2003, p. 199, Professor Krueger writes:
As I blogged here, the Gaurdian writes that Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “disclosed that the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, with about 2,200 Marines aboard the USS Peleliu, went ashore in southern Iraq to assist a campaign to halt the smuggling of oil and fuel.
It’s a huge tax that most Americans don’t understand. And most of those who support leviathan government want to keep it that way. They’re betting on the apathy and ignorance of the average American when this tax is discussed.
Samizdata.net blogs a very entertaining review of Hoppe’s Democracy: The God that Failed, written by Andy Duncan. It begins: “Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy fans will remember the ultimate cocktail drink; the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Instead of burning a billion dinar notes, the US government might have just auctioned them on Ebay, where they are currently selling for $1 a piece.
The Intellectual Conservative runs a brief piece on Frank Meyer’s In Defense of Freedom, quoting Rothbard, Brent Bozell, and Craig Schiller in response. (The author, Enrico Peppe, describes himself as a Fundamentalist-Georgist-Populist — talk about fusionism!)
Phil Roberts, _A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xii + 198 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-295-98251-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Terri A. Sexton, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento.
