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Daily Archive for October 15th, 2009

This would never have happened.

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My alma mater is proud to produce socialists. (more here) I must be their biggest regret. Perhaps a bigger pox for them is that I was admitted (in my view) only because I played football. Were it not for that preference, I would not have gotten in. And athlete preferences at places like Amherst totally […]

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This is (controversially) making the rounds this morning. End World Hunger, Sell the Vatican. I don’t care about the issue frankly. But I do care about the awful state of economic understanding even in articles like that one. For example, the writer says: For the record, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which just released […]

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Democracy, Oligarcracy and Autocracy

From the time we are little children we are taught to praise the noble experiment of democracy and revile the evils of autocratic rule. But the older I get, the more my thinking turns 180 degrees on this. It is not at all clear to me that democracy is preferable to rule by the few, […]

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