Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in ethical foundations on Jun 29th, 2011
From the same book I referenced earlier: We realize that to continue our use of fossil fuels is morally wrong. Like the economies (and consumers) dependent on slave labor, we can no longer rely on the cheap but perilous use of petroleum, natural gas and coal. New energies must be discovered, and the use of […]
Posted in Institutions on Jun 29th, 2011
I’ve not blogged much on democracy, elections and campaign finance issues. One reason is that I cannot stomach the hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle on this one. Here is a very nice illustration of the hypocrisy on the right by Marc Elias. And in today’s Wall Street Journal is an unsurprising thought question […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Jun 29th, 2011
From this piece on the “evil” of 99 cent e-Book pricing: But to pull back from the misanthropy, the point is this: self-published authors game the system. You set your e-book price at $0.99, get a hundred friends to buy it in a short window of time, and shoot into the best-seller list where sales […]
Posted in Voluntary Society on Jun 29th, 2011
It is Naive to Think that Civic Action Would Save the Whales … I am sure by now my readers are familiar with the idea that private initiative “saved” the whales. They did not, of course, save the whales due to any concentrated effort to do so, but rather because the allure of making lots […]
