Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Corporatism, Government Gone Wild on Oct 8th, 2009
Maybe this will be a new series too. They don’t just do it in places like Santiago, Chile. They do it good and hard right here in the U.S of A. But no matter how hard the planners do it, somehow they still get a free (bus) pass from the masses. Update: This just in.
Posted in Regulation on Oct 8th, 2009
From Warren Meyer: Brad Warbiany has a great suggestion in response to new FTC rules requiring that Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Oct 8th, 2009
Posted in Environment on Oct 8th, 2009
Yet another reason why: (1) I am less sanguine thinking about economics as a science today; (2) I do not assign textbooks in my environmental economics class. Instead, ecologicals use phyical measures of ecosystem resilience and resource stocks weighed against population and consumption pressure as their measure of sustainability. Recall that from an ecological point […]
