Sunday, May 29, 2011

Capitalist Culture

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Instead of vilifying him for being an idiot, we should be praising Michael Moore for being a millionaire.   The Invention of Enterprise: E...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Copy Rights and Wrongs

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The Google Books Settlement Agreement and the conflicts that caused it touched on only some of the problems of intellectual property and ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Locksporting

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Opening locks without keys is one of the challenges historically associated with computer hacking, like gaming and Chinese food, chronicled ...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Cities

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 It is an easy claim commonly found in school books that cities evolved from agrarian communities that themselves were formed when pastorali...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

CSI: FLINT 2011 - Who Guards the Guardians?

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On May 6, I presented two classes to middle schoolers participating in "Super Science Friday" at the University of Michigan Flint ...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Reflections on Atlas Shrugged Part 1

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I saw it the moment it opened, 12:10 PM, Friday, April 15. The work was credible. I found it impossible to imagine seeing the movie without ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The CSI Effect

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Jurors with less education demand scientific evidence.  Educated jurors trust the prosecutor. History can be funny.  Typically, progress c...

Karl Marx and the Dustbin of History

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Like the death of Mark Twain, the imminent passing of capitalism has been predicted (or reported) for 150 years.   Plotting the past and ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Atlas Shrugged: Opening Show

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

When Did "the Great Depression" Begin?

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No mythology faces as many problems as the folktale of The Great Depression. The Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, pointed out in Human ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Anti-Trust

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The evils of anti-trust are well-known.   Anti-trust laws assume that there is a fixed inventory of extant goods and services, that all th...

Contemporary Reports: Panic or Puffery?

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It is possible that the “Panic of 1857” is another anti-capitalist delusion?   Historians are trained in school to give precedence to first...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mere Gold is Not Enough: Hayek's "Denationalisation"

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F. A. Hayek's Denationalisation of Money (1978) made a case for an open market in money, without legal tender laws, and without a gover...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Sociology of Freedom

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Freedom (or the lack of it) does not come to each of us evenly and all at once .  This is explained in Harry Browne's classic, How I Fou...