Stossel On Private Roads
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Private Roads, Public Goods Leave a comment »Stossel on the Minimum Wage
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Minimum Wage Leave a comment »http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8438935
HT: David Skarbek and Don Bourdreaux
The natural order of things | The Spectator
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3213246/part_2/the-natural-order-of-things.thtml
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Hilferty on $13,000 Conference Call
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Horwitz on the Great Depression
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Great Depression Leave a comment »http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/08/hoover-and-the-great-depression-redux.html
What does a Harvard professor teach his top students?
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: George Mason University, Methodology Leave a comment »Intresting list. Clearly, Mankiw believes that top students at Harvard (likely the ones going on to grad school in economics) need more intreprative than predictative (strict formalism) training.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossible-task.html
Easterly on Genocides
Posted: August 31, 2009 Filed under: Foreign Aid Leave a comment »http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/08/how_i_dont_care_about_genocide.html
Dr. Ouelett, outgoing president of the Canadian Medical Association
Posted: August 30, 2009 Filed under: Health Care Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/08/dr_ouelett_on_c.html
Sautet on Senator Edward Kennedy
Posted: August 29, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/
Anti-Sex School for Johns?
Posted: August 29, 2009 Filed under: Personal Liberty, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Anti-Sex School for Johns?
In a novel approach to punishing men who attempt to hire prostitutes, Nashville and other cities are sending first-time offenders to a one-day class where they learn from former prostitutes, health experts, psychologists and law enforcement officers about “the risks of hiring a prostitute.”
This is a waste of time.
Prostitution is “the oldest profession” for a reason: sex is a biological imperative. A day of anti-sex school will have no effect on the demand for prostitution.
The better approach is to legalize.
Under legalization, the vast majority of men would patronize legal establishments. This would also allow quality control, since competition would encourage prostitution services to certify their employees as free from STDs and above the age of consent. Legalization would help the women who serve as prostitutes by reducing the violence they suffer from johns and pimps. In particular, legalization would mainly eliminate forced prostitution.
The claim that prostitution encourages sexual assault does not pass the sniff test. Many countries, plus Nevada and Rhode Island, allow legal prostitution to varying degrees, but no evidence suggests they have a higher incidence of violence toward women.
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Boudreaux Calling Out Krugarian Contradictions
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Budget Deficits Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/paul-krugmans-deficient-perspective.html
Hasnas: The Obviousness of Anarchy
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Anarchy Leave a comment »http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/AnarchyDraft.pdf
Pete Leeson: Two Cheers for Capitalism
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Capitalism Leave a comment »http://www.peterleeson.com/Two_Cheers_for_Capitalism.pdf
Stringham: Market Chosen Law
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Anarchy Leave a comment »http://mises.org/journals/jls/14_1/14_1_3.pdf
Milton Friedman on Greed
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Greed Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
Stuff White People Like: Health Care
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Health Care Leave a comment »HT: Doug Rogers
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/04/04/94-free-healthcare/
Golden Calf of Democracy
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/ideas-and-consequences-the-golden-calf-of-democracy/
Probability Your Vote Will Make a Difference
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »“On average, a voter in America had a 1 in 60 million chance of being decisive in the presidential election.”
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15220#fromrss
Stossel on Voting
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvl0lqhCVio
Is Voting Dangerous for your Health?
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/is-voting-dangerous-for-your-health/
Tullock on Voting
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Democracy Leave a comment »http://www.pbs.org/vote2008/video/2008/08/voting_schmoting.html
Peter Schiff on the Financial Crisis
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: ABCT Leave a comment »http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-9-2009/peter-schiff
Game Theory
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Game Theory Leave a comment »HT: Greg Mankiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0
How American Health Care Killed my Dad by David Goldhill
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Health Care Leave a comment »http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care/3
John Stossel on Health Care
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Health Care Leave a comment »http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/08/new-video-community-rating-distorts-health-care.html
Bjorn on Global Warming
Posted: August 28, 2009 Filed under: Global Warming Leave a comment »http://danieljosephsmith.blogspot.com/2009/08/bjorn-lomborg-technology-can-fight.html
