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R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024
That’s the title of an article that appeared this week at the Daily Sceptic. It presents a bleak but accurate picture of Scotland’s recent sad decline. Here’s an excerpt. The…
Marginal Revolution
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Interesting Exchange of Views Regarding the “Cost Disease”
Economist John Cochrane starts a recent blogpost by quoting a comment about the cost of regulation that appeared at Marginal Revolution (another economics blog). Here are some excerpts: From my time in…
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Barone highlights serious analysis of Trump’s strategy
Michael Barone avoids over-the-top denunciations and instead focuses on substantive analysis in his first-year assessment of the Trump presidency for the Washington Examiner. 2016 turned out to be a year…
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Much Ado about Nothing?
That may be the case when it comes to voter ID laws. MIT economist Enrico Cantoni has published a paper entitled, “Got ID? The Zero Effects of Voter ID Laws…
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University of Chicago Affirms Its Committment to Freedom of Speech
At the Marginal Revolution blog, Alex Tabarrok provides an excerpt from a letter that the University of Chicago recently sent to incoming freshman: Earning a place in our community of scholars is no…
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“Euthanasia Tourists”
That’s the title of an article in the International Business Times. The article goes on to say: Euthanasia tourists are flocking to Brussels to get a lethal dose…. In 2015,…
Elections & Public Integrity
A Republican Party bailout
Tyler Cowen, today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society speaker, offers thoughts in his “Marginal Revolution” blog about Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party. As the possible nomination…
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There’s an App for That, cont.
Writing from Serbia, New York Times reporter Matthew Brunwasser, describes the surprizing role that technology is playing in the current European refugee crisis: The tens of thousands of migrants who have…
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Transparency, California Style
At MarginalRevolution.com, economist Tyler Cowen provides a link to the California Policy Center’s Transparent California website, which shows total pay and benefits paid to each of 6.5 million public employees in California in…
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Saving the planet?
At marginalrevolution.com, Tyler Cowen links to an unintentionally funny column in the New York Times discussing new data showing that “owners of hybrids and electric vehicles are defecting to sport utility…
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Six-word short stories
Hemingway wrote a six word story that he thought was his best work For sale, baby shoes. Never worn. Others still try. Let’s see what the LockerRoom can produce. To…
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From one blog to another
Here is some commentary on President Bush’s statements about Greenhouse gases and the Kyoto agreement. Check it out at the MarginalRevolution blogsite.