Top 3 Myths About Immigration
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: Immigration Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRmS7q9DlM
Prisoners’ Dilemma
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: Courts, Game Theory, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Prisoners’ Dilemma
Koch brouhaha–My take
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: Koch, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Koch brouhaha–My take
A major is not minor: How what you study affects what you earn
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: Art, Gender Leave a comment »
“But what about the arts? Would we produce a Shakespeare or a Rev. Martin Luther King if we allotted education to students by earning power?” Yes, actually. See Tyler Cowen’s Arts in a Market Economy: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-arts-in-a-free-market-economy/
What fueled recent drop in gas prices? – The Boston Globe
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/05/29/what_fueled_recent_drop_in_gas_prices/
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Pledge of Allegiance
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: Patriotism Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BfqDUPL1I&feature=player_embedded
Book review: Stanford economist debunks in ‘Economic Facts’ | Deseret News
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: Discrimination, Minimum Wage, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Questions for Minimum Wage Supporters, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: May 29, 2011 Filed under: Minimum Wage, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/05/questions_for_m.html
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/05/minimum_wage_an_1.html
The Poor Don’t Revolt
Posted: May 28, 2011 Filed under: Poverty, Revolution Leave a comment »http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/05/the-poor-dont-revolt.html
An African Success: In Namibia, The People and Wildlife Coexist
Posted: May 27, 2011 Filed under: Common Pool Resources, Tragedy of the Commons, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
An African Success: In Namibia, The People and Wildlife Coexist
Where does good come from?
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: Methodology Leave a comment »http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/04/17/where_does_good_come_from/?page=full
FDA: Feed the Dim Administrators
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: FDA, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
FDA: Feed the Dim Administrators
Man-made Global warming Scientists object to Freedom of Information Laws
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: Global Warming, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Man-made Global warming Scientists object to Freedom of Information Laws
Stop the Bad Guys | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: Political Parties, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/thoughts-on-freedom/stop-the-bad-guys/
USDA Fines Family $90,000 For Selling Pet Rabbits
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: Regulation, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
USDA Fines Family $90,000 For Selling Pet Rabbits
In Defense of the Koch Brothers and Academic Freedom
Posted: May 25, 2011 Filed under: Koch Leave a comment »http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/in-defense-of-the-koch-brothers-and-academic-freedom/
Jobs Kill, BIG Time
Posted: May 25, 2011 Filed under: Health Care Leave a comment »http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/05/jobs-kill-big-time.html
Redistribute your GPA?
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: Redistribution, Taxes Leave a comment »http://wherelibertyis.blogspot.com/2011/05/redistribute-your-gpa.html
Salt, Fish Oil, and the Implications of Optimization
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: FDA, Food Pyramid, Optimization Leave a comment »http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/05/salt-fish-oil-and-implications-of.html
ECONOMICS, NOT PHYSICS
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: Methodology Leave a comment »http://www.fee.org/from-the-archives/economics-not-physics/
Americans will devote 2 hours and 13 minutes of every eight-hour workday, or over a quarter of their working hours (27.7%), to paying taxes
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: Taxes Leave a comment »http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/ff268.pdf
Al Gore’s horrible Science grades and standardized test scores
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: Environment Leave a comment »http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2011/05/al-gores-horrible-science-grades-and.html
Tax Delinquents Get Massive Profits from Obama’s Economic Stimulus
Posted: May 24, 2011 Filed under: Stimulus, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Tax Delinquents Get Massive Profits from Obama’s Economic Stimulus
Good thing that Obama kept the promised tight rein on the money being spent from the stimulus program.
Thousands of companies that cashed in on President Obama’s economic stimulus package owed the government millions in unpaid taxes, congressional investigators have found.
The Government Accountability Office, in a report being released Tuesday, said at least 3,700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations that received more than $24 billion from the stimulus effort owed $757 million in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2009, the end of the budget year.
The report said the tax delinquents accounted for nearly 6 percent of the 63,000 contractors and grantees examined, and it cautioned that the real number might be higher because the known tax debt does not measure such factors as income underreporting.
Among the examples was an engineering firm that received a $100,000 stimulus act contract but owed $6 million in taxes. The IRS called it “an extreme case of noncompliance.” A social services nonprofit that received more than $1 million in stimulus funds owed taxes of $2 million.
The GAO referred those two cases and 13 others to the Internal Revenue Service, the country’s tax collectors, for further investigation. . . .
Abnormal Returns From the Common Stock Investments of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives
Posted: May 23, 2011 Filed under: Corruption Leave a comment »http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol13/iss1/art4/?sending=11417
Getting Smart on Aid – NYTimes.com
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Economics, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=2
One Teeny Bopper, One Vote
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
One Teeny Bopper, One Vote
A Lot of What Everybody Knows Is Wrong
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Medicine, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
A Lot of What Everybody Knows Is Wrong
How many glasses of water are we supposed to drink each day? Eight – everyone knows it’s eight. But according to researchers from the schools of Public Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, this has never been proven true. In fact, they argue there’s not one single piece of data that supports this claim.
This is from Brian Mossop, writing at The Health Care Blog. Entire piece is worth reading.
Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Methodology, Science, Uncategorized 1 Comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises
Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises. Published originally in the Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942, while Mises was working for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The essay examines the differences between the social and natural sciences.
Steven Levitt’s “Daughter Test” for Paternalistic Policies
Posted: May 20, 2011 Filed under: Patneralism Leave a comment »http://volokh.com/2011/05/20/steven-levitts-daughter-test-for-paternalistic-policies/
Levitt’s “daughter test” is useful, however, in highlighting an important aspect of paternalism. Many of its advocates, including some sophisticated scholars such as Levitt, too readily generalize from their own personal values and use those preferences as justification for prohibitionist policies.
As economist David Henderson points out, this displays intolerance towards others with different values. What is best for me — or my daughter — may not be best for everyone. Whether the costs of a risky activity outweigh the benefits varies greatly from person to person.
