The successes of Adam Smith

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Merton Miller on active investing

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.  - Merton Miller

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Jus in bello: the IDF dropped this Arabic flyer warning residents of Shuja’iya to evacuate – Hamas told them to stay

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CNN

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Schumpeter on the narrow talents of the entrepreneur

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For the nervous flyer

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Then a miracle occurs: the applied welfare economics of blackboard economics

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Faith, Hope and Government

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Kidney waiting list are not getting any better

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The Great Escape is still on-going in the developing world

Photo: We’re making progress! According to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the availability of new drugs, vaccines, and other health innovations led to 4.2 million fewer child deaths in 2013 compared to 1990. Every kid deserves a fifth birthday! Learn more on the PATH blog: http://bit.ly/1izqEw7

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Who hates Fox News?

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George Stigler on Thomas Malthus – with relevance to his modern day successors

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Forget income inequality, lets go after zoning restrictions…

 

via Managerial Econ: Forget income inequality, lets go after zoning restrictions….

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An Englishman’s home is his castle

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Nozick on the fatal conceit

Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?  - Robert Nozick

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