The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Why Should Currency Standards Be Gold Standards

My question is not whether or not we should be on any kind of standard at all, but rather why it should be gold . So, fiat currency exorcis...

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Education and Economic Heat Death

A number of economists in the last two centuries have contributed their part to the dismal science by describing new sets of conditions unde...

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Coding Economic Mores as Religious Taboo

One of the reasons Japanese food is good for you is that it uses little red meat. I had always assumed that this resulted from the scarcity...

Gini Matters, Because So Does Income Mobility

Originally I was going to post an article arguing that the U.S.'s large Gini coefficient for income distribution is less significant tha...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Review of Spencer Weart's Never at War

Spencer Weart advances the theory that democracies do not fight each other, a conclusion that has obvious implications for modern foreign p...

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