Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Apr 25th, 2011
Bob Higgs is famous for listing in glorious detail some of the absurd rules and regulations that are on the statute books in this country. Now, Coyote, via Radley Balko, does him one better: it is freaking unbelievable that we allow some loser bureaucrats to get away with his, and even worse that they have […]
Posted in Economics Problems, Education on Apr 25th, 2011
I honestly believe that “friends of the market” do more damage to the cause of freedom and markets than the statists. Now, we’ve let Randi Weingarten win the day by calling these market reforms: Market-based reformers advocate using student test scores to evaluate and compensate teachers, increasing the number of charter schools, firing teachers in […]
Posted in Environment, Market Failures, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 25th, 2011
Last Friday we asked why solar electricity generation requires subsidy. The “economic” case can be found in two places. Solar electricity generation is supposedly better for the environment than current fossil fuel generation. But neither consumers of electricity nor individuals around the world pay for the environmental benefits that solar produces, so that solar manufacturers […]
