Category Archives: economics

QotD

Posted on Thursday, 2004 January 15 by Anton

Quoth the ever provocative Brian Micklethwait: Evolutionary Biology is a bandwagon with too much momentum for a few clapped out Marxists to halt it, and if the Evolutionary Biologists decide that Hayek matters, he matters. Prediction: in twenty years time … Continue reading →

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Russ Nelson

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 06 by Anton

Russ Nelson is, if memory serves, a Quaker and an anarchist. He used to be on my favorite mailing list; I wonder why he dropped. Well, I just noticed that he has a blog; he calls it The Angry Economist.

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spitting on Roosevelt’s grave

Posted on Monday, 2003 December 29 by Anton

Cato: How FDR’s New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People. (Yet another link from Rational Review News Digest)

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mixing one’s labor with the land

Posted on Monday, 2003 December 15 by Anton

Leonard Dickenson (Unruled) on Lockean claims in cleared parking spaces. Cited by Will Wilkinson (The Fly Bottle).

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another layer of transaction costs

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 November 12 by Anton

Rasmusen on the value of liberty What is wrong with government regulations? Well, first, of course, they are likely to be the result of special interests, and inefficient. But even good regulations have a cost that I don’t see mentioned: … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Monday, 2003 November 10 by Anton

Kevin Marks, whom I had not read before, cites Jerome K Jerome (author of Three Men in a Boat) on economics: What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become! – not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists — … Continue reading →

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rabbi rentseeking

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 October 21 by Anton

David Bernstein, of the Volokh Empire, reports on an appalling funeral in Israël mechanically presided over by a mandatory Ortho rabbi. (Title borrowed from Rasmusen.)

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