The Unbroken Window

I used to actually be a scholar. A friend of mine saw my name and a colleague’s name in this past weekend’s Boston Globe. For interested readers, had I been following my “ideology” I would have tried hard to refute the result that we published. But the data spoke as clearly as they could given [...]

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From his 1776 Thoughts on Government: The principle difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this representative assembly. It should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason and act like them. That it may be the interest of this assembly to do [...]

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My old Professor Frank finds another justification for raising taxes on the rich: high tuition.

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UPDATE: for those of you interested in THE major reason I support my colleague (aside from the fact that he is among the most reasonable people I know, who wrote a book on economics and raising his daughter that persuaded me to change careers, and who actually considers seriously all good arguments in a way [...]

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They said it, yep – now global warming is going to threaten our health because cross-country skiing and outdoor skating seasons will be shorter. The results paint a grim picture for the future of outdoor skating. The largest decreases in the skating season length were observed in the Prairies and Southwest regions of Canada. By [...]

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Oops, scratch that. UPDATE: How it did die. If there was ever a 2 minute statement that encapsulated most of what I understand to be true about the world, and to be morally right about the world, this is it. For those interested, I recommend a book I’ve reviewed in bits and pieces, David Beito’s [...]

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This is how I thought news magazine pieces used to be written. If you can spare 20 minutes, please do read Adam Davidson’s outstanding Atlantic piece on modern manufacturing in America. It’s not just about manufacturing (or really much about it). It demonstrates a solid and nuanced understanding of economics, and should be the starting [...]

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That’s really what green energy religion has become. And now the Wall Street Journal is peddling it: For instance, the Production Tax Credit, first passed in 1992, has generated massive amounts of new growth in the wind industry, a sector employing 85,000 Americans. But each time Congress allows this credit to expire after a mere [...]

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A former student of mine, Sam Wecker, and his sister put together this little ditty. Enjoy!

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