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• 2006 John Taylor Gatto Keynote

  
  Education Revolution — Authority: 125
  2006 John Taylor Gatto Keynote Address Find out more and order online at:www.educationrevolution.org/aero06gatto.html
  13 hours ago

• More Than This: The Story of Roxy Music

  
  Eat Sleep Drink Music — Authority: 433
  Bar none the best Eagle Vision video we’ve seen to date, “More Than This: The Story of Roxy Music” is absolutely packed with interviewees, each with a unique perspective on the band’s musical vision, artistic direction and influence. The set is much more focused on the “Eno years” (that way they can ...
  6 days ago

• why we homeschool: john taylor gatto

  
  good tree montessori homeschool — Authority: 125
  i’m revisiting this because of a conversation my husband had with a coworker whose wife was a teacher. my husband was amazed because his coworker’s wife had never even heard of homeschooling. she actually thought it was a joke. i challenge every teacher or teacher-to-be to read the underground history of ...
  1 week ago

• Traitors to the American Revolution

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 616
  by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, LewRockwell.com The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic governmental tyranny run by a king, namely, the British Empire. The king enriched himself and his regime through the economic institution of mercantilism, defined by Murray Rothbard as “a system ...
  1 week ago

• When Politics and Academia Dont Mix

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 137
  Is Stanfords John Taylor -- who, according to this measure is the 10th most influential economist in the world -- exhibit A for the corrosion that occurs when politics meets academic economics? In a blog post last week titled "National Accounts Show Stimulus Did Not Fuel GDP Growth," Taylor writes: Along with ...
  1 week ago

• Government Failure Versus Market Failure

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  In this blog I like to point out how frequent and prevalent is the phenomenon of government failure . Under a public choice perspective, the problem is that, in the public sector, there are strong incentives to use market failure as an excuse for the adoption of awkward or interested public policies, while ...
  1 week ago

• Government Failure: Mankiw and Taylor on the Increases in Marginal Income Tax Rates

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  A labor income tax is not too different from having to pay the government for the right to work. Its also a punishment on working more hours or more productively. The more we work and the more we earn from working, the more the government collects from us as "access to work fees." Right now, the government is not ...
  1 week ago

• The Future of Too Big Too Fail

  
  The Everyday Economist — Authority: 109
  As we emerge from the financial crisis, it is important to develop a framework for dealing with failing institutions. In particular, the nature of the doctrine of “too big to fail” must be addressed and re-examined. Recently, John Taylor and Larry White have spoken out about the need for a rule of law rather ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government Failure: Institutionalizing Bailouts

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  John Taylor explains in this post how the administration is trying to transform its bailouts of large financial institutions (its "too big to fail" doctrine) into a permanent feature of the American financial regulatory framework: Fears of potential damage from the failure of a large financial institution has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government Failure: More Evidence that the Administration is Wrong

  
  Incentives Matter — Authority: 125
  Here is John Taylor criticizing the claims of the administration . And here are the findings of new research by Alesina and Ardagna (HT Division of Labours Stephenson ): We examine the evidence on episodes of large stances in fiscal policy, both in cases of fiscal stimuli and in that of fiscal adjustments in ...
  2 weeks ago

• ;&gm^

  
  Education Revolution — Authority: 125
  “Walkabout London: Open Source Learning”
  3 weeks ago

• Dreams of Brigham Young University

  
  Believe All Things — Authority: 115
  Today, Carrie told me of a talk given by Merrill J. Bateman about the history of Brigham Young University. 1 Just as Henry B. Eyring spoke about the future of BYU in A Consecrated Place , Elder Bateman spoke of those who were given dreams of its future destiny. Recently I shared with the faculty and staff some key ...
  3 weeks ago

• Seeing stripes....

  
  Get some Vintage-a-Peel — Authority: 121
  I have a confession to make; Im afraid I go weak at the knees for guys in stripes. Not any old stripey thing, I hasten to add, but nicely tailored Sixties or Seventies numbers (and a bit of early Eighties stripey shirt action, Duran-style). Im not sure where it came from, or why it has such a strange effect on me, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taylor

  
  The Everyday Economist — Authority: 109
  Why didn’t anyone tell me that John Taylor is blogging ? In any event, Taylor does some of the best work in the profession — thoughtful, careful, and persuasive. Definitely check out the blog.
  4 weeks ago

• Theres something about those Eighties bassists...

  
  Get some Vintage-a-Peel — Authority: 121
  Okay, maybe I can only summon three to mind whilst writing this [will add more if I can think of them] but still...they do seem to be ageing rather well, dont they? Recent concert photos of Mr Martin Kemp got me thinking about how dishy he and Mr Nigel Taylor still are - and then I remembered that Mick Karn isnt ...
  4 weeks ago

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