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Daily Archive for December 17th, 2010

Carson, Silent Spring and Doom

Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2010

Matt Ridley corrects the quote I used from his book on this long and interesting post on DDT and Rachel Carson: By the way, in my book I say that Rachel Carson `expected DDT “to cause practically 100 per cent of the human population to be wiped out from a cancer epidemic in one generation”’. […]

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Returns to Recipes

Posted in Entrepreneurs, Price System on Dec 17th, 2010

In what might be called the “Economics 1.0” view of the world we think of the process of producing some good or service as a simple “Sneetch Machine.” Someone gets some land and uses that land along with some workers and some machines to produce some output. The financial flows in this sort of a […]

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