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Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Karl R. Popper on Socrates

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I wonder how many "progressives", economists and social scientists fit Popper's depiction of Socrates' measure of scientif...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Obama Advocates Inflation, Big Government

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama is arguing for deficit spending and a sharp increase in government. The Journal 's Jo...
Monday, October 13, 2008

Broad Quackery in the Economics Profession

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The last few weeks have seen a series of political decisions that concern economic issues but whose pros and cons are not directly germane t...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Social Democratic Fallacies

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Social democracy, which has at various times inappropriately been called liberalism and progressivism, is a doctrine that has created proble...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Oskar Lange RIP: "On the Economic Theory of Socialism" in Benjamin Lippincott, Editor, On the Economic Theory of Socialism

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Oskar Lange, "On the Economic Theory of Socialism". Reprinted in Benjamin E. Lippincott, editor, On the Economic Theory of Sociali...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Social System Matching and the Expertise Culture

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In the twentieth century the idea of convergence was suggested to explain the trend of socialist economies to look more like capitalist ones...
Monday, May 26, 2008

The Search for Order

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Robert H. Wiebe. The Search for Order 1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. 333 pages. (Newer edition available from Amazon.com for $12...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Conservatism, Surgical Radicalism and the Four Party System

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The current popular political debate occurs between two kinds of conservatives. The first, called liberals or progressives, argues that the ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Toward Separate American Communities

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Woodrow Wilson argued that America ought to become a community that is united by common belief. However, Wilson did not anticipate the brok...
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Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Economic Contours of a Buffett-Obama Administration

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The Economic Contours of a Buffett-Obama Administration Much has been made about Barack Obama's association with Pastor Jeremiah Wright,...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Firms' Goals and Pricing

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Walter Nicholson. Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application Third Edition. Dryden Press, 1983. I have decided to treat myself to rev...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Progressivism Contradicts progressivism

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Progressivism was the ideology of early twentieth century American government. Its argument was based on the idea that big business had deve...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

John "Zippy" Callister, Doug Ross and the MSM's Three Biggest Lies

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Doug Ross has an interesting blog about John "Zippy" Callister's letter to the Wall Street Journal (courtesy of Larwyn). Mr....
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

War on The Future in Herbert Croly's Progressive Democracy

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The past century has seen the persistent belief that government best copes with change. Liberals have viewed social security and regulation ...