Category Archives: economics

chaos and health

Posted on Sunday, 2008 November 16 by Anton

In a private forum, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote: I remember that one of my early epiphanies on the road to libertarianism came when I was reading about chaotic, scale-independent oscillations in heartbeat frequency. One might naively think that the healthier the … Continue reading →

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it’s a post, ain’t it?

Posted on Saturday, 2008 October 04 by Anton

a very clever picture — clean, but be warned, much of that site is NSFW. Bon mot from Sheldon Richman: Advocates of the free market are sometimes parodied for their seemingly all-purpose answer to any problem: Let the market handle … Continue reading →

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pent-up demand

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 October 09 by Anton

It occurs to me that, assuming Cuban Communism does not long outlive Fidel, a lot of gringos are going to buy nostalgic cars there.

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what, more links?

Posted on Sunday, 2007 September 09 by Anton

Friendly societies: ancient free-market social security Meet the Mind Readers: brain implants to control prostheses. In previous studies, Nicolelis’s team showed that when monkeys had their brains hooked up to robotic arms, they assimilated the arm, effectively making it their … Continue reading →

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links

Posted on Monday, 2007 August 20 by Anton

Charity finds that U.S. food aid for Africa hurts instead of helps. Oh dear, CARE has been taken over by evil selfish libertarians. What else could explain such a conclusion? What American accent do you have? I got Philadelphia on … Continue reading →

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go Hillsdale!

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 24 by Anton

The first letter in this week’s Economist is from Nikolai Wenzel, assistant professor of economics at Hillsdale College, who says in part: . . . as of 2004 only 55% of America’s health spending was private . . . . this 45% does not capture … Continue reading →

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elsewhere

Posted on Friday, 2006 July 21 by Anton

Will Wilkinson debunks the notion that private charity would be better spent to “leverage” government spending — in other words, in rent-seeking.