Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Biased imagination”
TweetThe core of the point that I try to make in my March 18th, 2009, column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is relevant today. You can read my column beneath the fold. Biased imagination Imagine...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy is rightly worried about the the U.S. government’s fiscal mess. Joakim Book loves Matt Ridley’s new book. I cannot wait for my copy to...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 21 of Michael Porter’s 2000 essay “Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity,” which is chapter 2 in Culture Matters, Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P....
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Tweet… is from page 263 of George Will’s excellent 2019 book, The Conservative Sensibility (footnote deleted): For many Americans, slower growth seems less a menace than a promise – the promise of...
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Tweet… is from pages 42-43 of the May 9th, 2020, draft of the forthcoming monograph from Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi, The Illiberal and Anti-Entrepreneurial State of Mariana Mazzucato:...
View ArticleTierney on Higgs on Crises and Leviathan
TweetOne giant writes about the important work of another: Here’s John Tierney on Robert Higgs’s work on how and why government grows in response to crises – crises real as well as imagined and always...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 345 of the original edition of James M. Buchanan’s 1960 textbook, The Public Finances (a book that isn’t included in Buchanan’s Collected Works): The problem is precisely that of...
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Tweet… is from this brilliant new column by George Will titled “When American conservatism becomes un-American“: Nostalgia functioning as political philosophy … is usually romanticism untethered from...
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Tweet… is from page 410 of the 2014 collection, The Market and Other Orders (Bruce Caldwell, ed.), of some of F.A. Hayek’s essays on spontaneous-ordering forces; specifically, it’s from Hayek’s...
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Tweet… is from page 24 of Matt Ridley’s wonderful new (2020) book, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom: Innovation seems so obvious in retrospect but is impossible to predict at the...
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 43 of the May 9th, 2020, draft of the important forthcoming monograph from Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi, The Illiberal and Anti-Entrepreneurial State of Mariana Mazzucato:...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 73 of the May 9th, 2020, draft of the important forthcoming monograph from Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi, The Illiberal and Anti-Entrepreneurial State of Mariana Mazzucato:...
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TweetMy Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold pushes back against those who argue that the United States should withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO). A slice: Since the General Agreement...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from pages 92-93 of the late Stanford University economic historian Nathan Rosenberg’s insightful 1992 paper “Economic Experiments,” as this paper is reprinted in Rosenberg’s 1994 book,...
View ArticlePittsburgh Tribune-Review: “For oil, tap ingenuity”
TweetIn my column for the February 24th, 2010, edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review I pondered humanity’s relationship with petroleum. You can read my column beneath the fold. For oil, tap...
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Tweet… is from pages 234-235 of Nathan Rosenberg’s and L.E. Birdzell, Jr.’s excellent 1986 book – one that all well-meaning advocates of, and sympathizers with, calls for industrial policy should read:...
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TweetBryan Riley addresses some of the fallacies in Arthur Herman’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed on repatriating “supply chains.” A slice: According to Mr. Herman, 97 percent of antibiotics used in...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy rightly decries calls for another U.S. government bailout of airlines. A slice: Not surprisingly, bailouts beget more bailouts. My...
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TweetAccording to David Henderson, “yes” answers to the following questions are evidence of a policy fit for a banana republic: Does the government prevent people from practicing their occupation and...
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TweetHere’s a letter to my incessant correspondent Nolan McKinney: Mr. McKinney : A part of Brink Lindsey’s and Samuel Hammond’s new paper that you find “among the most worrying” – and allege that I,...
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