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Daily Archive for June 30th, 2012

Deirdre McCloskey writes: It seems to me that a political philosophy based on fairy tales about what happened in history or what humans are like is going to be less than useless.  It is going to be mischievous. Do read the whole thing. I was all prepared to write a legendary (not in a good […]

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About 25 years ago Julian Simon asks the same question. It is useful to think of whether this is better or worse today (I paraphrase): Think about all of the solicitors knocking on your door, calling your phone, sending you mail, sending you e-mail or otherwise stopping you. What percentage of those solicitations is to […]

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