Stephen Hicks

10/31 So you’ve always wanted to learn witchcraft. Now the efficiency of decentralized markets. (Not that I’m envious or anything.) And on the enormous value of free, decentralized trade when compared to centralized tariffs and controls, Johan Norberg cites encourage personal responsibility? Overlawyered’s archive of personal irresponsibility lawsuits. 10/27 Alex Tabarrok on the secret history […]

9/30 At The Wall Street Journal: Bloggers and economists Russell Roberts and William Polley discuss the Fair-Tax and the Flat-Tax proposals and decides in favor of … 9/29 Taking the (sickly?) pulse of contemporary higher education: Victor Davis Hanson looks at being a good writer. (Via Arts & Letters Daily.) 9/27 Fruits of the Enlightenment:

8/31 David M. Brown notes another one politician’s stupid reaction to high gas prices. Meanwhile, tomorrow is No Gas Day!, and here are why we should love price gougers. 8/30 Anna Volk reports on 2005 Trafficking in Persons report. 8/29 As the new academic year begins: Dave’s Daily identifies Get enough sleep. Also: while students

7/30 The politics of education: Lisa Snell of the Reason Foundation’s web log: educational “looping”, in which a teacher stays with a group of students for two years. And check out this a recent challenge in the Canadian Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Mark Steyn is of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx. 7/27 In Reason: Melinda Ammann

6/30 David V. Cohn’s immediately before and after Tiananmen Square. And check out this inspiring poster, Stuart Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands. And here are Brett Holverstott’s fine Yahoo News, George Will, Tyler Cowen, and a number of posts by The Castle Coalition, a project of build a socially-useful hotel on Justice Souter’s

5/30 Apostate from Islam: Azam Kamguian argues that we need to Altruism and Capitalism and 2005 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. And check out the in defense of sex. In the heat of the moment, however, you will want to have your lawyer present to help you distinguish a lack of reasonable foreseeability from wanton

4/30 Mathematical brilliance, hard work, and the serendipity of cultural networks combine to solve calculating the sometimes-awesome economic value of networks. (Thanks to Joe for the link.) 4/29 The web log of Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society. 4/28 Why rants on government-run health care. And for some good news: Hollywood’s anti-capitalist bias. (Note:

3/31 At PointofLaw.com, a valuable collection of to-the-point columns on Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research and one from Jimmy Wales, the founder of the intriguing The Atlasphere.) 3/28 Non-bleeding-heart libertarian Bryan Caplan suggests conditional welfare for the poor: Marginal Revolution.) 3/26 A debate on free speech by law professors muzzle professors