From this Sunday’s Boston Globe “Ideas” section: Natural Disasters Help “Natural disasters can give a boost to the countries where they occur – and sometimes, the more the better” “When something is destroyed you don’t necessarily rebuild the same thing that you had. You might use updated technology, you might do things more efficiently. It bumps
From Scientific American Magazine - January 2008: Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon ...As with living organisms and ecosystems, the economy looks designed—so just as humans naturally deduce the existence of a top-down intelligent designer, humans also (understandably) infer that a top-down government
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“Former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is struggling a bit to adjust to life as a lobbyist... Life in the private sector isn’t as cushy as Lott thought it would be. No more free lunches, no more taxpayer-funded car and driver, no more overprotective press secretary guarding him from the pesky media... Lott really had no idea how to even go about taking
Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg’s testimony in Albany this week that the city’s taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they get back, a City Council member is offering legislation that would begin the process of having New York City secede from New York State. Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents Queens, is pushing the idea,
Several commentators have discussed whether or not university athletic teams could survive without subsidies from the administration. While not all athletic programs receive revenue from student fees (for instance, the large athletic program at my alma mater is entirely self-sufficient), there is evidence that suggests that many of these teams
This time from a natural order perspective. For a New Liberty - Murray Rothbard Machinery of Freedom (excerpt) - David Friedman Market for Liberty (excerpt) - Morris and Linda Tannehill Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: Crime Prevention and the Legal Order - Randy Barnett Capitalist Production and the Problem of Public Goods - Hans Hoppe The
Jim Rogers: “They are really giving up on the dollar, they are driving the dollar down, they are printing money as fast as they can. Look, the Federal Reserve has just in the last week spent 230 billion dollars taking on loans, house loans, mortgages, out of the system. This man Bernanke was never elected by anybody, I don’t know where he gets the
Peter Boettke from The Austrian Economists : “It is with great pleasure that I announce that Dan D’Amico successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday April 22, 2008. Dan is a deep thinker and committed Austrian economist and radical libertarian social thinker. His dissertation addressed the ‘imprisoner dilemma’. D’Amico uses economic analysis
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