Monday, October 31, 2011

Private Security in the 21st Century

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In J. Neil Schulman’s libertarian utopia Alongside Night , our hero, the son of a free market Nobel laureate economist, is on the run when ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Accounting for Civilization

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The work of Denise Schmandt-Besserat demonstrates from empirical historical evidence that civilization began with accounting. The first writ...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION: KARL POPPER AND HIS ENEMIES

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The “Black Swan” refers to the fact that as far as Europeans knew, for thousands of years, hundreds of generations, all swans were white.  ...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Steve Jobs: One of a Kind

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Steve Jobs asked, "If you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life, would you do what you are about to do?"  (Th...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

... that goddam Ayn Rand book ...

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When Roseanne Barr spoke at the Occupy Wall Street rallies on September 19, she called for a new "people-ism" that combines capita...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Objectivism and the Gold Standard

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Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan both assumed that the government would be the only source of money.  Even in Atlas Shrugged when John Galt hand...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Aging in America: Alternatives to Government Policies

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The first Boston Marathon measured 24.5 miles. “On April 19, 1897, John J. McDermott of New York , emerged from a 15-member starting field a...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Ground Truth

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Geographers who work with remote sensing data call "ground truth" the final empircal test.  You never know for sure what the instr...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Roots of Poverty

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In The Economy of Cities , Jane Jacobs wrote: “To seek 'causes' of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because ...
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