Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Numismatics informs Economics

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If economists actually collected and studied the media of commerce, they would avoid errors common even to advocates of capitalism.  Milton ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Numismatics: the Standard of Proof in Economics

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Hayek, Mises, and Rothbard, and of course Friedman,  for all their passion, lacked any understanding of numismatics.  As a result, their t...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Response to "Global Warming Cooling Off?"

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I followed my bachelor's in criminology with a master's in social science because that let me tailor some cognate electives to my in...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Has Global Warming Cooled Off?

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Despite record tempertures across the continguous USA, especially in the upper and lower Great Plaines, advocates of anthropogenic global wa...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Hacking

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Def Con makes the news.  This 19th convention wins more attention than the first one did.  Now billions of people own comput...
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, ...