Free-market “barons” must please customers
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Yesterday the Daily Camera printed a letter to the editor of mine in response their Editorial Page Editor's attacking individual freedom:
Archive for the ‘economics’ Category
Yesterday the Daily Camera printed a letter to the editor of mine in response their Editorial Page Editor's attacking individual freedom:
Psychological Biases and Investing
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I recently finished reading a book about this called Investment Madness, by John R. Nofsinger, an Associate Professor of Finance at Washington State University. It's very clear, well-organized, well-referenced, and a quick read. The publisher has put the first chapter on-line here. From the ...
Having health “insurance” does not guarantee health care
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007On Monday the Rocky Mountain News published a letter I submitted: George Swan (Speakout, June 15) erroneously equates medical “coverage” with actual medical care. “Access to a waiting list is not access to health care,” wrote Canadian Chief Justice McLachlin when striking down legislation banning private insurance. As David Hogberg documents ...
Show some respect Young Americas Foundation:
F.A. Hayek is not a conservative!
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Submitted to their website: As a former co-chair of the campus group OMF, a market-anarchist student group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I was quite angered to receive YAF posters in the mail of George W. Bush and Anne Coulter [click here at your own risk, cringe!] is admirable defenders ...
Who Really Cares?
Monday, January 15th, 2007This week's Boulder Weekly published my letter to the editor about the book Who Really Cares and an article a columnist had written about it. Here's a link to the print version and the text of the letter: Wayne's wasted chance I was quite disappointed in Wayne Laugesen's recent article ("Jesusland," ...
Milton Friedman: champion of individual freedom
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Last night on the way to a debate on gun prohibition (which I had intended to write about this evening) my friend Ralph and I were talking about effective ways to advance pro-freedom policies in a culture dominated by misguided and counter-productive government interventions into peoples lives. I expressed ...
venture capitalists vs. bureaucrats
Sunday, June 18th, 2006My friend Eric recommmended that I read some essays by Paul Graham, an "essayist, programmer, and programming language designer" for some insight on careers, start-up companies, and business. Here's a great passage about funding new business ventures from an essay titled Inequality and Risk, where Graham shows that ...
Rationality, careers, and purpose
Monday, April 17th, 2006I just watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! Episode on the Endangered Species Act. I couldn't help to think about the theory of Rational Irrationality, i.e., how it's economically "rational" to be epistemologically irrational, or how little incentive people have to be informed about the effectiveness and unintended consequences ...
Jonathan Richman, NPR’s Marketplace, Walmart, Eagles
Thursday, February 16th, 2006This is not the first post of this nature. Anyway, the show included a riff from Jonathan Richman's "Lonely Little Thrift Store" after a segment on Walmart's banking service. Good choice! They've used this riff before, and the album is sold on the Public Radio Music Store. Speaking ...
Thomas Schelling wins Nobel Prize, and my landlord
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005I learned from Will Wilkinson's blog that economist Thomas Schelling won the Nobel Prize in Economics. I'd first read about his works through the term "Schelling Point" in an article by David Friedman. Oddly enough, I think I experienced this phenomenon yesterday with my landlord. A few weeks ago the ...
