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• The State of Higher Education: Who Was Montesquieu?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Every once in a while one gets an insight into the sad state of higher education in the United States. Back in 2008, when my agent was attempting to market the manuscript of what recently appeared in two companion volumes under the titles Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, ...
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• Survival of the Fittest 101: Charles Darwin, Barack Obama, and the Origin of Health Care Reform

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 438
  Barack Obama’s organic approach to health care reform is a type of Darwinism applied to politics that I think I can endorse. Though it’s not 100% certain, it appears that Barack Obama will have a living, breathing health care reform bill to sign very soon. And how, in the merciless desert of American ...
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• Distributed Intelligence and the Arrogance of the Statist

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 444
  Let’s talk honey bees. They are some darned impressive bugs. They swarm, they build complex nests, they heat the nest in the winter and they cool it in the summer, they create airflow to force out carbon dioxide, they build complex nests, they scout out pollen and then communicate the location of their finds to ...
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• A Twisted Tale of Falsehood About Adam Smith

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 125
  Niall Ferguson , a distinguished historian, writes an interesting, if inaccurate and perplexing piece, “ Dead Men Walking: why 2009’s truly top thinkers are yesterday’s news ” in Foreign Policy (18 December) HERE . Ferguson’s theme is somewhat predictable, given recent events in the global economy, and ...
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• Mistaken Identity?

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 125
  Mark W. Hendrickson , a faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, writes (12 December) for the Catholic Exchange Blog ( HERE ): " The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith’s Timely and Timeless Classic" “2009 marks the 250th anniversary ...
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• John Mackey, health care, Friedman, and wisdom…

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 114
  The problem with the free market is that the profit motive trumps all other concerns, which leads to monopolization of societies by powerful corporations. – MeI’ve been pretty hands-off with the whole health-care debate in more public settings.  I don’t shy away from talking about it around the dinner table at ...
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• Digital vs. direct mail in 2010

  
  NextMark — Authority: 103
  DM News article " Digital Shines in 2010 " predicts the continued rise of digital spending as a share of total marketing dollars. Two interesting takeaways from a direct mail perspective: #1) Digital is stealing share away from direct mail "Just like in the old days, direct marketing used to be the safe haven ...
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• An Empty Front for What?

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 125
  “Anonymous” writes RFK action front Blog (12 Dcember) HERE : “ How Wall Street killed Adam Smith and Milton Friedman “But what I hadnt realized until just this morning, is that the collapse of the financial sector in 2008 killed Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. Their ideas should have been dead long ago ...
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• Economists and economics

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  See also: U.S. economy 2009 ; World economy Economy on Wednesday-night.com Economists, like physicists, have been searching for a theory of everything. If there were to be such an economic theory, there is really only one candidate, based on extreme rationality and market efficiency. Any other theory would ...
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• Stimulus and Smith

  
  Constructive Interference — Authority: 112
  So Im in the midst of reading Adam Smiths "The Wealth of Nations". Ive got a fair number of other obligations these days, so Im going through it bit by bit, it is taking awhile. Im well into book four though, so Im making progress. Listening to the recent debate over Obamas stimulus package has been striking, ...
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• Howard Dean: "Developing a final health bill" (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 486
  MSNBC-Countdown, video (07:40). Howie P.S.: Ed Schultz looks at the bill from the progressive perspective with Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Roy Secoff (HuffPo), and Bill Press, video (12:52). Michael Medved joins them and represents the other side. Medved quotes Rep. Adam Smith as saying he would vote against the ...
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• Marcus Aurelius: Emperor, Philosopher, Economist

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 571
  Gibbon’s Decline and Fall begins with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD. It was all downhill from there. Besides being a well-regarded emperor who was succeeded by an ill-regarded son , Marcus was a philosopher. Reading the works of Epictetus turned him into a devoted stoic as a young man. Marcus’ book ...
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• I love this picture of Adam

  
  Bang Bang Club — Authority: 424
  Usually found on a fish convincing people to go get their shred on and presently found waiting for swells and getting his shakespeare on. Below steezing and possibly throwing a shaka
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• UK City breaks – Nottingham

  
  Student Direct — Authority: 436
  Barely two hours away by train, the compact city of Nottingham sits snugly in the middle of England. Packed with myth and history, Nottingham is also at the cutting edge of fashion and culture. Up and coming designers aspire to follow in the footsteps of Paul Smith; his townhouse-boutique occupies a prime position in ...
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• Money for Monogamy

  
  Economic Sociology — Authority: 395
  Another way of monetizing infidelity: these t-shirts seemed to crop up for sale online seconds after speculation began about Woods cheating on his wife. In all the public discourse surrounding Tiger Woods and his alleged infidelities, one of the primary topics of interest has been the millions of dollars he may ...
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• Poverty and BC’s high cost of housing

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 470
  BC Stats put out a release on poverty lines as they relate to BC, with an important finding: BC’s dubious position as having the highest poverty rates in Canada may in fact be worse than the statistics show. This finding is buried in the piece and the title, “Low Income Cut-Offs a Poor Measure of Poverty”, ...
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• On Climategate

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 423
  Rediff is carrying a report on “climategate,” and Aristotle the Geek has an excellent post on the non-science of the Gore-Pachauri tribe, but what I want to say is “I told you so” – exactly 2 years ago. My column on the Gore-Pachauri Nobel prize began by questioning the “knowledge credentials” of ...
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• Can a libertarian be a Conservative?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 142
  First-past-the-post tends to produce a two-party system; and in any two party system, both parties will be coalitions. The Conservative and Unionist Party was founded in 1912 as a merger between the Conservatives and those old Whigs who, having rejected Home Rule and the Leftward drift of their party, sat under a ...
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• Has Geology Anything to Teach Economists?

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 125
  An interesting item crossed my screen this evening while in pursuit of Googling Professor Larry Neal of the University of Illinois, Urbana: The Journal of Economic History (2000), 60:2:317-334 Cambridge University Press: “A Shocking View of Economic History”, with a tantalizing abstract: “ Economics, like ...
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• Obama’s Jobs Summit: The Invisible Hand of SEIU and ACORN

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  As President Obama concludes his first jobs summit, almost a year into his presidency, the nature of the guest list hints at a deliberate initiative that’s been underway for over 15 years – and it’s not one of the obvious presumptions that most would make.  Notice that of the list of leaders invited , the ...
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