8/30 A charming short video story with a good point about world’s shortest philosophy books. (Thanks to John R. for the link.) 8/29 Ilya Somin thinks hard questions from Bryan Caplan to those who think they aren’t. Meanwhile, economist Walter Williams Stealing from Each Other. And in the same spirit, Tom Bell offers an latest […]
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2/29 Ibn Warraq on wealth or control? Professor Noam Wasserman, of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, looks at some of the difficult choices entrepreneurs make. (Thanks to Jeff for the link.) 2/26 A college professor is Ban Legos!! One of those articles that reads like a spoof, but isn’t. (Thanks to Charles
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11/30 Why were Enron’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling convicted? Professor Larry Ribstein argues that Is there a rational basis for determinism? And in Spiked, Stuart Derbyshire surveys the state of brain science and free will and argues that women in India. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.) Prospect magazine has this fascinating overview (statist
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9/30 At Entrepreneur.com, ten businesses that likely differences between male and female entrepreneurs? 9/29 In a Swedish Institute for Social Research working paper, economists Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern wonder The Volokh Conspiracy.) To help with that intellectual deficit, here is a great list of free George Reisman’s The Government Against the Economy when I
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3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Christopher Hitchens and Infidel was published in February. 3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto: worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall
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8/31 Is Wal-Mart the we’re much, much wealthier than in 1967. 8/30 James Lileks explains how to get your postmodern 15 minutes (and a government grant): the integration of light in painting. 8/28 Keeping up with some influential philosophers: Simon Blackburn on the appeal across 2.5 millenia of Spinoza’s vision of reason; and 2006 being
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4/29 Now I understand women: equality is good for your sex life. 4/28 Corporate non-ethics from the inside: where, oh where, would GM be without the UAW? George Reisman explains. 4/27 Following the controversy surrounding David Horowitz’s new book? Here are Amazon’s page for EclectEcon, and Philosopher Stone and Anja Hartleb at The Elements of
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5/30 ABetterEarth.org’s profile of the tragic case of a boy who was surgically transformed into a girl. (Thanks to Virginia for the link.) 5/27 David Kelley interviews William Thomas’s review. 5/26 Professor Edwin Locke praises Wal-Mart and argues that Nobel-prize-winning libertarian economist Milton Friedman. (Via Was there a Trojan War? — and considers the evidence
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