Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Economics Problems, Economists on May 2nd, 2018
Perhaps that is not a very funny title, but it comes from this: OK, I’ll bite. Not as hard as I used to, but I’ll bite. What is needed is a mandatory course on ethics and the limits of knowledge Well, “mandatory?” What is the meaning of mandatory? In any case I like the idea […]
Posted in Disingenuous on May 2nd, 2018
More like windbag at times. Now on page 104: If private firefighting sounded like a libertarian dream — private industry stepping in where government falls short — in fact it was just that. As California burned, Adam B. Summers of the Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank historically funded by Shell, BP, Exxon-Mobil, and the […]
Posted in Environment on May 2nd, 2018
In the 1950s, Enrico Fermi famously asked, “Where Are They?” And that question spurred a great deal of thought and interest in the idea of whether extra-terrestrial life exists, and if it does exist why hasn’t it reached us yet, and the implications for our civilization if in fact it has not. I just finished […]
