Two economists report on survey results of professional economists’ policy views and voting from the mid-2000s, before the financial crisis hit. Their abstract: In Spring 2003, a survey of 1000 economists was conducted using a randomly generated membership list from the American Economics Association. The survey contained questions about 18 policy issues, voting behavior, and […]
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Entrepreneurship in Brazil My full interview with entrepreneurs William and Winston Ling is now available online at CEE’s site. From the interview: “In the second half of 2010, everything was doing great: we were beating records year after year and expanding the business. Profitability was fine and the outlook was fine. But we sat down
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Revising “The Twelve Days of Christmas” for your inner math geek. Vi Hart’s clever Gaussian “Christmath” song doodle:
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What makes liberal capitalism good? Here is a flowchart I’ve developed for use in some upcoming talks. The chart diagrams the positive claims about liberal capitalism by its defenders — John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and others. Click on the image for full size
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My talk at the 2012 Atlas Summit in Washington, DC, is now online. My themes: * Our schizophrenic public policy culture: health, sex, religion, money * What wealth is: tangible, intangible, and institutional assets * Entrepreneurism as a cultural asset * Objectivism’s entrepreneurial ethic * Principled strategy in a mixed economy * Three challenges: abstractness,
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How would you judge this case? A woman is away on a business trip. During the trip, she has consensual sex with a male partner at a motel. The motel room was paid for by her employer. But during sex a light fixture is broken off a wall and lands on her face, causing injuries.
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At Quizlet, someone has created study cards for my Explaining Postmodernism. Here, for example, are the flash cards for Chapter 2 on Kant, reason, structuralism, Hegel, and so on. Neat. May they be helpful to those students in various universities reading it this academic year as a textbook.
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After a terrible yesterday, like many people I am still trying to understand how someone could do those horrible things. I run through the list of factors and wonder which ones contributed causally. His being male? His mental abilities/disabilities? How his parents raised him? His living in a society with access to firearms or with
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