Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Environment, History on Jun 7th, 2012
Now that I think about it, it does seem rather strange that it took so long for us to figure this out. The Easter Island heads have bodies! Here are some pics: The article I link to says this may have been caused by a Tsunami. Hayek of course would not have been surprised. […]
Posted in Extended Order, Standards of Living, trade on Jun 7th, 2012
One of our favorite places in all of Rochester is the Green Acres Fruit Farm. I do recommend it (and no, no one I know works there nor do I own a piece of it nor did Exxon pay me to say that). In fact one reason we choose to live around here is to […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Paternalism on Jun 7th, 2012
And then they came for the … bath salts? Who knew you could make cocaine out of them? This legislation will get these extremely dangerous bath salts out of the hands of Alaska's children I think Colorado is debating the same thing today. Yes, to protect the children. Of course. Only the good lord knows […]
Posted in Government Gone Wild on Jun 7th, 2012
Don Boudreaux on the hysteria over the (supposed) weakening of public sector unions: Today’s cartoon by Tom Toles depicts alleged terrors that await workers in the wake of the weakening of public-sector labor unions. Predictions that government will horribly mistreat its own employees unless they are organized into formal unions powerful enough to counter it […]
Posted in ethical foundations, labor markets, Voluntary Society on Jun 7th, 2012
Let’s use an innocuous example today. I teach several large economics classes at the U of R, all of which require lots of help from a dedicated bunch of undergraduate TAs. The problem is that there is a “minimum wage” that I must pay all of my TAs. That wage is zero (more detail on […]
