Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Government Thuggery on Mar 8th, 2013
Read about it here. Just a little more research is all they want, that’s all. Sure. Can we get a 2 year moratorium on ______ (insert comment here)? UPDATE: It just came to my attention that paleoclimatologists have just published the “killer” temperature reconstruction that tells us that today’s temperature are as hot as they […]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Thuggery on Feb 25th, 2013
I will not here chime in on the myriad arguments for and against the minimum wage that redound to economic research or theories. Instead I ask a simple question. Or two. Dear central planners in DC, do you believe that you have unlimited political capital and unlimited time and means to fix the problems in […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on Jan 15th, 2013
In what is sure to have one removed from polite company, I suggest that the next time a public official tries to be nice to you, you tell them to f*ck off. My entire local government school is populated by very nice people – and they have just about put the final nail in the […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on Oct 19th, 2012
I am too sick to my stomach to comment again: Marginal Revolution University has been Banned in Minnesota! by Alex Tabarrok on October 19, 2012 at 10:58 am in Economics, Law, Web/Tech | Permalink Minnesota has banned MRUniversity and other online education services from providing content to Minnesota residents. This seems like a joke but it is not from The Onion. Coursera, one of the larger players […]
Posted in Government Thuggery, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Property Rights on Aug 2nd, 2012
I’m allowed to brag about my students. One of my terrific economics students and AHI-Rochester fellow Dan Wang just published his first piece. He is currently an intern for Radley Balko (someone we should spend more time talking about here at the UnbrokenWindow). In any case, please do read Dan’s story of Eminent Domain abuse […]
Posted in Entrepreneurs, ethical foundations, Government Thuggery, Special Privilege on May 30th, 2012
I may just turn this blog into a news feed. It all speaks for itself. I wonder if its because companies have to beg for government permission, and then pay a hefty bribe, to get permission to hire more employees: The city council in Menlo Park, Calif., is set to approve a deal that will let […]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Gone Wild, Government Thuggery on May 1st, 2012
On this much celebrated day around the world, I repost my mourning for the hundreds of millions that have been brutally tortured, maimed, and murdered in the name of “the social good” and “brotherhood.” Shame on them. In the language of my postmodern critics – this certainly too was a social construction in the most […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Mar 26th, 2012
April 24th is the day that Armenians use to commemorate a despicable and horrific genocide that was perpetrated on their people by the Turks. I couldn’t wait a month to commemorate it. More on the sick particulars of that below. But I wanted to bring this remembrance up and coin a new fallacy that I […]
Posted in Government Thuggery on Mar 19th, 2012
I pretty much dislike TV. But a colleague recently encouraged me to watch the Wire and I will never regret making that investment. Here is an application of what one learns via Warren Meyer: Everything I Need To Know About The Effect of Metrics on Police Behavior I Learned from The Wire March 16, 2012, […]
Posted in Environment, ethical foundations, Government Thuggery on Mar 19th, 2012
One reason I now distinguish between “E”nvironmentalism and “e”nvironmentalism is that there has been a sea change in attitudes in the environmental community over the past three decades. When I was a Boy Scout and when I first started joining hiking clubs some 20 years ago much of the literature I read was closely dedicated […]
