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• Ken Rogoff Calls for a Slow-Down

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  (July 7, 2008 06:46 AM, by Arnold Kling) He writes, governments are clawing to stretch out unsustainable booms, further pushing up commodity prices, and raising the risk of...

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• What About Pets?

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  (July 6, 2008 04:02 AM, by Arnold Kling) Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa S. Kearney find that time spent taking care of children is positively correlated with...

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• When Has Independence Been Worth the Price?

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  (July 4, 2008 09:10 PM, by Bryan Caplan) I think that the American Revolutionary War was a tragic mistake. After years of bloodshed, it's hard to see how...

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• What Went Wrong?

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  (July 4, 2008 02:32 PM, by Arnold Kling) In a somewhat melancholy 4th of July essay, Canadian libertarian Pierre Lemieux writes, How could a country founded on the...

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• Bryan Caplan Politely Declines to Join the Pigou Club

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  (July 3, 2008 05:20 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Arnold is mistaken to think that my notes on signaling indicate that I've joined the Pigou Club. If you read...

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• Scary Housing Data

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  (July 3, 2008 04:05 PM, by Arnold Kling) A few weeks ago, Lawrence B. Lindsey wrote, There are 129 million housing units in the United States, comprising owner-occupied,...

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• The Long-Term Budget Outlook

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  (July 3, 2008 03:40 PM, by Arnold Kling) From the Congressional Budget Office: How would the economy be affected if the projected rise in primary spending under CBO’s...

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• The Long-Term Budget Outlook

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  (July 3, 2008 03:40 PM, by Arnold Kling) From the Congressional Budget Office: How would the economy be affected if the projected rise in primary spending under CBO’s...

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• Creative Capitalism, Capitalist Government, and Thought Experiments

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  (July 3, 2008 02:51 PM, by Arnold Kling) Mencius Moldbug proposes a thought experiment. Imagine that there had been no scientific or technical progress at all during the...

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• Dorothea Dix

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  (July 3, 2008 11:47 AM, by Arnold Kling) The more I read (or Kindle) Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought, the more antecedents I see to modern...

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