You know why so many men walk around with sloppy hair? We hate haircuts. You have to drive there to get one, which represents decline, because if you know about Figaro from Rossini's "Barber of Seville," the barber came to your home (but then he also pulled out your teeth and passed on furtive notes arranging encounters of various sort, etc.).
Pete Boettke, Chris Coyne and Peter T. Leeson have a new blog: The Austrian Economists.
I was just having a conversation with a visiting political philosopher from Northern Italy.
The past year has brought to light what so long was concealed under the veil of the German consensus model, writes Frank Vogelgesang.
Walter Block’s recent thread “I blew my chance to be on the payroll with every
In this February 1957 memo, Rothbard sets down some thoughts on the Aristotelian background of marginal utility and Austrian economic theory.
Decisively refuted by the facts of economic life, Marxism has been forced to retreat to the one place in the academy where empirical reality seems to carry no weight in an argument: the humanities departments.
Everyone knows the rule: drink no liquor before noon. How insufferable such advice is! It has caused morning drinkers to hide their habits, deny them when confronted, and otherwise feel like they are doing something wrong or immoral or socially intolerable, a combination which leads to other forms of pathology.
