Category Archives: economics

here and there

Claire Wolfe: The Quality of a Free Man (cited by Rational Review News Digest) James Leroy Wilson says some things that I have attempted to say about, for example, highways: Perhaps a genuinely free market would have seen the development … Continue reading

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what, more links?

Medical Guesswork (Business Week) The navel and the WTO antidote, by Sauvik Chakraverti a slightly naughty chuckle When Bigots Become Reformers: The Progressive Era’s shameful record on race (Reason) Arnold Kling: Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism an annoying conversation that every libertarian has … Continue reading

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scapegoats

Mom is in town, and yesterday we went to the Arts & Crafts exhibit at the de Young. One of the wall placards says, “The problems caused by free trade and the Industrial Revolution had been recognized since the 1830s … Continue reading

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the axes of confusion

When economists draw supply-demand charts, they put the independent variable (price) on the vertical axis and the dependent variable (quantity) on the horizontal, contrary to the usual practice in physics and pure mathematics. It’s surprisingly hard for me to adjust … Continue reading

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wandering the web

Gunnerkrigg Court, a newish cartoon-strip set in a decidedly weird boarding school. This is too good to leave buried in the comments: Loituma perform “Ievan polkka” Sheldon Richman: Capitalism vs Capitalism Something Positive: It’s entirely possible that you’ll appreciate this … Continue reading

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give me liberty or give me subsidies

Will Wilkinson spanks someone or other at The New Yorker for worrying too much about income inequality and disregarding the psychological benefits of autonomy.

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another one

Everyone’s doing it, and now David Friedman is doing it. What’s wild is that my bookmark chooser showed me his home page, with a prominent link to “My New Blog”, about eleven hours after his first post.

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