Friday, July 29, 2011

Innovation and Discovery

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The merchants of Sumeria invented fiduciary instruments on clay tablets 3000 years before the first coin was struck.  Coins, philosophy, an...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Should Home Mortgages Enjoy Tax Benefits?

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(This essay began in slightly different form at The Pretense of Knowledge: A Shout-out to Von Hayek .) Should the federal government reduce...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Back in the Saddle Again

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(These comments are edited from an original post to the Rebirth of Reason discussion board.) This week and next, I am in Austin, Texas, ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Coming Power Outage

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With temperatures soaring in the South and Northeast and more of the same coming to the Midwest, rolling brownouts and blackouts are to be e...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Modes of Survival

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Jane Jacobs was a brilliant, self-educated advocate for community.  Although she considered herself a socialist, she was a deep thinker.  ...
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Nerd Nation: Natalie Portman, Danica McKellar, and Felicia Day

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In their ground-breaking papers on the so-called “CSI Effect” Kim, Shelton , and Barak identified a general social “tech effect.” About 28...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Wal-Mart v. Dukes: the Plessy v. Ferguson of Our Time

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When the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities for persons of different race did not violate the rights of Amer...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Wal-Mart v. Dukes

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Sociologists are upset.  The American Sociological Association filed an amicus brief in the case of Wal-Mart versus Dukes to defend their s...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Junk Criminology as Pseudo-Science

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Writing about the so-called "CSI Effect" Gregg Barack, Young Kim, and Donald Shelton focused on jurors.  Among the many challengin...