Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Education on Jun 8th, 2011
In this week’s episode of how to become unacceptable in polite company, Richard Vedder makes the absolutely correct argument that we professors should be teaching more (and better): In a study for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Christopher Matgouranis, Jonathan Robe and I concluded that tuition fees at the flagship campus of the […]
Posted in Politics on Jun 8th, 2011
As a kid I was always taught to not extrapolate the failings of an individual to the group to which he belongs. But after thinking about the Weiner incident, how can any person take anything that any politician takes seriously. Really. When I listen to a politician I get the same feeling I get when […]
The Start of the Great Depression by Michael E. Marotta (This presentation originally appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the Mich-Matist of the Michigan State Numismatic Society.) No mythology faces fewer challenges than the folktale of The Great Depression. The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, pointed out in Human Action that capitalists and socialists […]
