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Category Archives: Economics
Cupcakes and Economics
This blog is supposed to be primarily about economics, with occasional detours into food and other topics. Thanks to my New Years Resolution to stop eating bad hotel bar cheeseburgers and my new toy, it has veered heavily towards the … Continue reading
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Tagged Austrian Economics, cupcakes, economics, Spain, unemployment
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My Little Econmist
♪♫My little pony. My little pony. Ahhhhhh! ♪♫ When my daughter told me I had to watch an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic because it would teach me something about economics, I couldn’t resist the challenge. By … Continue reading
How Blizzards Create Private Property
Three years ago 20″ of snow and 5 days housebound forced me to think about how something like a blizzard could create something as useful as property. I posted this diary on a prominent liberal web site. It got a very good … Continue reading
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Gilligan, Mr. Howell and M. Say
Thurston Howell the Third had a steamer trunk full of money, yet he lived in a grass hut. Just like everyone else on Gilligan’s Island. Gilligan’s Island was the tale of a fateful trip that started from a tropic port … Continue reading
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Unemployment and regulation
Here’s a note I sent to a friend’s father, during an e-mail discussion on unemployment: Regarding unemployment, I think it’s more complicated than technology, women in the work force or immigrants. At least in the US, we’ve had much greater … Continue reading
Anarchy in Fairfax County.
Yesterday I left the house around 6:15 am to go to my gym. On the way there, I encountered a dead traffic light. No flashing yellow, no signals, nothing. It was the intersection of a fairly major road and a … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, George Mason University, Nihilism, Peter Leeson, spontaneous order, The Big Lebowski, traffic, World War I
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Libertarian Charity
One cliche about libertarians is that we are all radical individualists who expect everyone to pull his own weight and think that “The devil take the hindmost.” is a good way for a society to operate. This stereotype, like most, … Continue reading
How the free market would have desegregated the South.
“Would the free market have desegregated restaurants in the South?” That’s the question Jon Stewart asked Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Daily Show a few weeks ago (the exchange starts at 1:50 seconds). I blogged about that encounter once here. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Jon Stewart, Judge Napolitano, racism, The Daily Show
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Is the “Business Cycle” real?
For over a hundred years, economists of various schools have debated how to tame the “Business Cycle”; the periodic ups and downs of the economy which cause so much irrational exuberance when on the up-swing and so much misery when on … Continue reading
If I were the Judge. How I would respond to Jon Stewart.
The sky is green Imagine that you are in conversation with an intelligent, articulate person who by all appearances is completely sane, yet insists that the sky is green. You might try to convince him that the sky is blue … Continue reading
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Tagged Austrian Economics, Jon Stewart, Judge Napolitano, libertarianism, politics, The Daily Show, The Judge
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2nd Hand Ideas 