December 2010
14 posts
“There was a strange side effect of the famine: Just when things where hitting...”
– The excellent book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, page 148/149.
“The right lesson to draw, I’m afraid, is that the atrocities of both the...”
– Bryan Caplan at EconLog. That, in my opinion, is scary as hell.
“A jury pool in Missoula, Montana staged a “mutiny” last week when...”
– “[A]n unbiased jury did not appear available under any circumstances” complained a prosecutor.
Boing Boing
An Efficient Holiday
NPR’s Planet Money continues to produce great podcasts highlighting economic principles. In Making Christmas More Joyful, And More Efficient, they give candy to elementary school kids and show how trade can maximize the wealth of everyone involved.
Journalists who bemoan the trade deficit and support protectionism would do well to listen.
“In my view, the most dangerous phenomenon is not hatred. It is power....”
– Crime Without Hate, Hate Without Crime
“… the key to both National Socialism and Stalinism was their ability to...”
– “Bloodlands” page 387.
“[G]overnments built up cruft over time, like an artery gradually hardening under...”
– Jacob Lyles channeling Mancur Olson, proposing to split California into two states.
“Just after he walked through the courthouse door the next day, Allison says...”
– Reason: The War On Cameras
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“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion...”
– Robert Heinlein, Life-Line (1939)
“A liberal blogger wrote to me in an email this week that libertarians who call...”
– Reason: You Are No Longer Free To Move