Tagged: economics
Empiricism v. Principle
Smaller government can’t be the sine qua non of the politics of freedom in a Wagner’s Law world.
Gasp! A Trump Supporter!
Why on Earth might someone actually support Donald Trump? Derek Stanley offers up his reasons.
Linky Friday #179: Armies of Darkness
Clowns, witches, scientists, doctors, preachers, and other things that go bump in the night.
Linky Friday #178: Crime, Death, & Urban Living
Crime in the City may be bad for your Health and the local Economy, but it’s also Educational.
Linky Friday #169: Psychedelic Pork
This week: Crime, Transportation, Resources, Cities, Economics, and Television!
Linky Friday #165: Blood, Guts, & Money
This week! Economics, Violence, Gender, Cities, Entertainment, and History!
Market Failure Introduction
In which I outline an eight-part series on how markets can fail, and what to do about it.
Skipping The Summer Reading
This essay is about reading gay porn before class. And it resurrects an Ideological Outrage Of The Day from 2012. And a graphic novel. And striking out romantically. And Richard Dawkins.
In Defense of World Governance
World governance is something no serious thinker would today endorse. This is unfortunate, because world government is the only hope for the long-term survival of the human race.
Dear Target: It’s Not Me, It’s You.
I used to think Target was way cooler than it’s rival Walmart. I don’t think that way anymore.
Would You Like Fries With That Midterm?
It’s not news that adjunct professors don’t get paid a lot. But it is at least remarkable when life imitates Breaking Bad.
On Public Transit
Hernando de Soto’s The Other Path illustrates how private transit services served the public’s needs and turned a profit.
Linky Friday #72
Linky Friday: categories this week are sports and culture, art and nature, economics and politics, and war and peace.
Subsidized Birth Control and Matt Walsh’s Dubious Theory of Rights
Do you have a right to a product that must be provided to you through governmental coercion?