Arbitrary Intervention, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: May 17, 2012 Filed under: Government, Market Failures, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/arbitrary_inter.html
A Bridge to Somewhere (but in the wrong place)
Posted: August 21, 2011 Filed under: Government Leave a comment »A SICKNESS IN THE PEOPLE
Posted: May 16, 2011 Filed under: Government, Patneralism, Self-Regulation Leave a comment »http://www.fee.org/from-the-archives/a-sickness-in-the-people/
Taming Leviathan
Posted: March 25, 2011 Filed under: Government, Public Choice Leave a comment »http://www.economist.com/node/18359896
Are Dictators The Future?
Posted: March 21, 2011 Filed under: Democracy, Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Are Dictators The Future?
Federal Government’s Duplicate Programs Make Dupes Out of Taxpayers
Posted: March 1, 2011 Filed under: Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Federal Government’s Duplicate Programs Make Dupes Out of Taxpayers
AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed
Posted: February 27, 2011 Filed under: Death by Government, Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022700988.html
Is Big Government a Myth? – Robert P. Murphy – Mises Daily
Posted: December 30, 2010 Filed under: Government, Obama, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Joe Biden’s Weak Case for Government Meddling
Posted: November 9, 2010 Filed under: Government, Innovation Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DanCsvCmrMk&sns=em
Uncle Sam: Part Pusher, Part Preacher
Posted: November 7, 2010 Filed under: Government Leave a comment »http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2010/11/uncle-sam-part-pusher-part-preacher.html
If Government Were a Rich Man, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: November 2, 2010 Filed under: Government, Poverty, Uncategorized, Welfare Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/11/if_government_w.html
GOOD QUESTION!: What Can Government Do That Google Can’t?
Posted: October 19, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
GOOD QUESTION!: What Can Government Do That Google Can’t?
What Do Government Economists Do?
Posted: September 7, 2010 Filed under: Economics, Government, Methodology Leave a comment »http://econjwatch.org/articles/economics-economists-and-economic-policy-modern-american-experiences
What is Washington’s spending costing you?
Posted: August 31, 2010 Filed under: Government Leave a comment »Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested
Posted: August 7, 2010 Filed under: Government, Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested
Bourbon for Breakfast
Posted: June 11, 2010 Filed under: Government Leave a comment »http://mises.org/books/bourbon_for_breakfast.pdf
The origins of governments: from anarchy to hierarchy
Posted: May 22, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7666684
We analyze development trajectories of early civilizations where population size and technology are endogenous, and derive conditions under which such societies optimally ‘switch’ from anarchy to hierarchy – when it is optimal to elect and support a ruler. The ruler provides an efficient level of law and order, but creams off part of society’s surplus for his own consumption. Switching to hierarchy occurs if the state of technology exceeds a threshold value, but societies may also be ‘trapped’ at lower levels of technology, perpetuating conditions of anarchy. We present empirical evidence based on the Standard Cross Cultural Sample that support the model’s main predictions.
Chickens coming home to roost
Posted: April 29, 2010 Filed under: Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Chickens coming home to roost
In 2000 Dudley Hiibel was arrested and convicted of a crime solely because he refused to identify himself to a police officer. Hiibel argued that in a free country people don’t have to produce their papers just because the police demand them and he argued that his arrest was unconstitutional. The case, Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, went to the Supreme Court and Dahlia Lithwick, Slate’s legal correspondent, made fun of libertarians who supported the plaintiff calling them hysterical and loopy. She wrote:
It would be easier to credit the Cato and ACLU arguments if we didn’t already have to hand over our ID to borrow a library book, obtain a credit card, drive a car, rent videos, obtain medical treatment, or get onto a plane. So the stark question then becomes this: Why are you willing to tell everyone but the state who you are? It’s a curious sort of privacy that must be protected from nobody except the government… [Yeah, it's curious that people want to protect themselves from the one organization in society that can legally deprive them of life and liberty. AT]
The slippery-slope arguments—that this leads to a police state in which people are harassed for doing nothing—won’t really fly.
Well in Arizona, it’s flying now.
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Nineteen Public Bads of Empire, Nation Building, and the Like: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute
Posted: April 27, 2010 Filed under: Government, Government Failure, Nation Building, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment »http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=648
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Strange Laws
Posted: April 14, 2010 Filed under: Corruption, Government, Iraq, Law, Police, War Leave a comment »http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/04/strange-law.html
Against Libertarian Nostalgia, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: April 7, 2010 Filed under: Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/04/against_liberta.html
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How Much is Government Costing Us?
Posted: April 6, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Government, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
How Much is Government Costing Us?
AT&T, Deere CEOs Called by Waxman to Back Up Health-Bill Costs – BusinessWeek
Posted: March 29, 2010 Filed under: Government, Health Care, Health Insurance, Intervention, Slippery Slope, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Daniel J. Smith
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What Government Does
Posted: March 28, 2010 Filed under: Government, Health Care, Health Insurance, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
What Government Does
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Rule of Law vs. Rule of Men
Posted: March 25, 2010 Filed under: Corruption, Government, Law, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Rule of Law vs. Rule of Men
Resources, conflict and development choices: public good provision in resource rich economies
Posted: March 24, 2010 Filed under: Corruption, Development Economics, Government, Resource Curse Leave a comment »“Natural resource wealth can be a curse or a blessing for a country. This paper hypothesises that the provision of productive public goods (or lack of it) is a pathway that helps understand these different outcomes when policy choices are made under the threat of conflict inherent in resource-rich countries. Facing potential conflict over resources, a self-interested ruler may choose to invest in either military repression or in productive public goods—physical and social infrastructure. While both measures aim at preventing conflict, we show theoretically that the optimal policy choice depends on the relative effectiveness of the ruler and the population in contesting the resources. Increased resource wealth provides a disincentive to invest in development if the ruler is more effective than the population in appropriating the resources. Conversely, if the ruler is relatively ineffective, more resource wealth induces higher levels of public goods. We present empirical evidence consistent with the predictions of the model for a sample of 57 countries over three decades. Thus, we provide and test empirically a conditional resource curse theory, postulating that the relative effectiveness of the contenders plays a crucial role in determining whether resources are a curse or a blessing.”
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k748q1128676j574/
