…but for billions of people such stations are the difference between life and death, light and dark, food and no food.
Brendan O’Neill: COP28 and the scourge of eco-imperialism
Brendan O’Neill: COP28 and the scourge of eco-imperialism
18 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment
A Pro-Globalization Banquet
05 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
If you want to drink deeply of unabashedly pro-globalization essays, the Cato Institute has a “Defending Globalization” project underway. The well-written essays are mostly short or mid-length, and clearly aimed at the general public–including undergraduate students. I can’t hope to summarize the essays here, and indeed, more essays are on their way (and you can…
A Pro-Globalization Banquet
Steven Pinker on free markets
19 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion, The Great Enrichment
Just recently Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced, after years of professing atheism (and rejecting her earlier Muslim faith(, that she’d become a Christian. This was announced in an article in Unherd, but she also discussed it briefly on a video, both of which I posted. Although she wasn’t explicit about what exactly she believed about Christianity, it’s […]
Hirsi Ali gets criticism of her newfound Christianity; responds
Colonialism and stone age people
16 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, liberalism, politics - Australia Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism, The Great Enrichment
Harvard professor argues for rationality | Steven Pinker
11 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science, The Great Enrichment
Milton Friedman on Donahue #2
03 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
The withering away of the middle class
04 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
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Poverty and prosperity
26 Sep 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
How to Ruin the Economy in 2 Minutes
10 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
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The Great Enrichment
26 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Socialism vs. Capitalism: A Debate
20 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Deirdre McCloskey: How Liberty Made the Modern World
04 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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