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Don’t Let Me Design Your Retaining Wall!
The State of California says I’m qualified to practice civil engineering. That means you can trust me to design structures that achieve a high degree of safety, economy, reliability, and...
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Hayek’s Choice In Currency: A Way To Stop Inflation
I have just finished reading Friedrich Hayek’s short essay entitled ‘Choice in Currency’ (1976). I believe that this essay is highly relevant in our current time as we have become witnesses of the...
View ArticlePublic choice and market failure: Jeffrey Friedman on Nancy MacLean
Jeffrey Friedman has a well-argued piece on interpreting public choice in the wake of Nancy MacLean’s conspiratorial critique of one of its founding theorists, James Buchanan. While agreeing that...
View ArticleThe Political is about to disrupt the crypto-currency scene -or at least they...
According to this Financial Times report, Bitcoin is at the verge of a critical decision. The implications of the chosen terms (“existential crisis,” “decisive leadership,” “political flaw”) are not...
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TV’s third “Golden Age” BK Marcus, FEE The life and death of North Africa’s first superstar Chris Silver, History Today The Pope that came from the South Avedis Hadjian, FOX News Globalization and...
View ArticleBe Our Guest: “How to make Brexit Really Worthwhile – Example: Regulation...
Here is the latest installment of NOL‘s new “Be Our Guest” series, this one by the pseudonymous Freeconomist. An excerpt: Third-party certification provides assurance to consumers that a product or a...
View ArticleBe Our Guest: “How to make Brexit Really Worthwhile – Example: Financial...
Be Our Guest is an open invitation to NOL‘s readers to participate with us. Pretty much anything is on the table. The latest article comes from the Freeconomist, who is following up on his earlier...
View ArticleDavies’ “Extreme Economies” – Part 1: Survival
Late to the party, I relied on the quality-control of the masses before I plunged into Richard Davies’ much-hyped book Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure and Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits...
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The Hidden Link Between “Genetic Nurture” and Educational Achievement (Nautilus) South Korea: Picking Winners and Losers in the Information Age (The Diplomat) When Interstates Paved the Way (FED...
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(Monday’s) comic book edition
The Code is dead, to begin with. Watchmen (DC) is awesome, a near-Orwell experience. On comics historical curios and intellectual drifts. Here goes. Vol. 1 – That other 50s scare and all Somewhere...
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