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Peter Boettke discussed who should have the authority for different public functions in his address as president of the Southern Economic Association and in this week’s episode of EconTalk. It’s…
“Capitalism cannot provide meaning, spirituality, or sense of belonging. Those things are upstream of capitalism,” Jonah Goldberg writes in his new, optimistic book, Suicide of the West. Mitch has commented…
Some great conversations made my time in the car much better this week Steven Teles is one of the most insightful people writing about conservatism and government, from the Federalist…
John Cogan explains how federal entitlements have always grown in his new book, The High Cost of Good Intentions. He told stories of veterans’ benefits, FDR’s early opposition to entitlements, the…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has one of the best podcasts around, Masters of Scale. He recently interviewed Peter Thiel (transcript) about their shared experiences at PayPal and how an organization…
Should private philanthropy seek to replace government-provided social services? I have argued in this space that it should, and have sought in my outside activity to make this possible. Others, however,…
Russ Roberts is one of the most thoughtful and articulate economists around, whether in rap videos, animated poems, novels, or his weekly EconTalk podcast. A recent conversation he had with Martha…
Roy, If you want to hear some of the debate between Hayek and Keynes, beyond this video, check out Russ Roberts’ conversation with Larry White on EconTalk.
From the Washington Whispers column by Paul Bedard of U.S. News & Word Report comes this item about Nancy Dragani, Ohio’s disaster chief: In little-covered comments at a Heritage Foundation…
Property rights became a contentious issue at John Hood’s Shaftesbury talk today. Serendipitously, Russ Robert discusses the topic with Michele Boldrin on this week’s EconTalk. John Hood likes intellectual property,…
I just discovered a decade-old article from WVU professor George Selgin on the positives of deflation from rising productivity. MYTH … A stable price level serves best to avoid booms…
Nassim Taleb says, I noticed that while _____ models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was happening. Why? … It looks like…