If We Only Taxed Hot Air Balloons …
Posted in Paternalism on Oct 15th, 2009
This would never have happened.
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Paternalism on Oct 15th, 2009
This would never have happened.
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Oct 15th, 2009
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 […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Standards of Living, Voluntary Society on Oct 15th, 2009
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 […]
Posted in Politics on Oct 15th, 2009
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, […]