Behind on my food snob blogging
24 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: expressive voting, food snobs organic food
G. Warren Nutter on the continually agitated nature of political discourse | Cafe Hayek
24 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: G. Warren Nutter
Public opinion on conspiracy theories
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, liberalism Tags: conspiracy theories
It Took Studying 25,782,500 Kids To Begin To Undo The Damage Caused By 1 Doctor
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: anti-vaccination movement, autism, Quacks, vaccination, vaccines
Reason for UKIP’s success?
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Milton Friedman Speaks: Complete 15-Part Lecture Series
22 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Milton Friedman Tags: Milton Friedman
Recorded in 1977-78, these 15 lectures by Milton Friedman were originally intended to be the core content of what became the Free To Choose television programs.
It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, election campaigns, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics, technological progress Tags: free trade, globalisation, market augmenting governments

Politicians can’t be heroes any more. Instead, they have to operate within the tightly drawn tramlines of the global economy.
This is true for those on the left and the right, but the pressure that this places on countries to adopt a low-tax, light-regulation regime is something with which the right is far more comfortable.
via It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator.
For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal » The Spectator
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Leftover Left

Good luck apologising for them, all you gutless western lefties — but you can put your fingers in your ears and sell out other sections of humanity all you like, and squeeze your eyes shut like a child in a storm, determined to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — and still that evil storm may come at you with hands like knives one day.
Look what they did to an Islamic convert on a humanitarian mission to help Muslims. You think they wouldn’t do it to you?
via For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal » The Spectator.
Deirdre McCloskey has a 55-page review essay on Piketty
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, Piketty
You will find it here (pdf), forthcoming in the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics.
via Deirdre McCloskey has a 55-page review essay on Piketty.




















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