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• TWoN Book 3 Chapter 4

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 118
  This very short chapter deals with drawbacks.  I’d have had an easier time of it if I knew what drawbacks are.  Next chapter is about bounties, and the same applies.  As near as I can tell, a drawback is a refund of a portion of whatever duty is charged on export. Page 389: “They tend not to overturn that ...
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• The Burj Dubai

  
  The Chief — Authority: 138
  Now thats one hell of an occupational hazard : The Burj Dubai is so tall that Bedouins can see it from their oases 100 kilometers (63 miles) inland and sailors can see it from their supertankers, 50 nautical miles out in the Gulf -- at least on the few winter days when the air is as clear as its portrayed on the ...
  1 week ago

• A hidden truth about climate change

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 575
     Column by Riane Eisler Submit guest columns, letters: freepress2@ntelos.net The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference makes evident potential catastrophic effects of climate change, including its enormous economic and human tolls. It also clearly shows how poor nations in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin ...
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• TWoN Book 4 Chapter 3

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 118
  In this chapter Smith gets into restrictions on trade in some detail.  In brief, he argues that restricting trade, while not always a mistake, will never be advantageous economically to society as a whole, but at most to certain small sections of it.  He address balance of trade, and makes some interesting points.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flying in Style

  
  The Chief — Authority: 138
  Pics of a tricked out Airbus A380 . Next time Im being told by an United Airlines employee to go fuck myself, I will try not think of these.
  2 weeks ago

• Conservative Calls for More Regulation!!!

  
  The Chief — Authority: 138
  Thats not very conservative . MORE : You know, the more I think about this piece, the more I say to myself, "Man, this person seems to be very knowledgable -- almost intimately aquainted -- with the self-banning procedures at the Potawatomi Casino..." It reminded me of this Onion video .
  3 weeks ago

• TWoN Book 4 Chapter 2

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 118
  Here we begin what seems to be Smith’s major campaign: to prove that anything that restrains trade (with a very few exceptions) is bad for society as a whole.  The difficulty with this proposition appears in the very formulation: society “as a whole” consists of divisions whose interests are opposed to each ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Science Uncertainties Identified in 2001

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 440
  EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally published on this blog March 30, 2007, the post below is republished today in light of recent revelations about fraud and conspiracy among research scientists and others whose work formed much of the basis of calls for extreme climate change regulation.“Adam Smith wrote that ‘Science is ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Puerto Rican Paul Ryan?

  
  The Chief — Authority: 138
  Except Fortuno seems to be actually doing what Paul Ryan keeps talking about ...
  4 weeks ago

• TWoN Book 4 Chapter 1

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 118
  Page 326: “That wealth consists in money, or in gold and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce, as well as the measure of value.”  In fact, according to Smith, wealth of the individual consists in what can be purchased for money, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Afghanistan

  
  The Chief — Authority: 138
  Its pretty hard to disagree with Ben Smith that Peter Orszags presence in this picture is no minor detail...
  4 weeks ago

• TWoN Book 3 Chapter 1

  
  Words Words Words — Authority: 118
  319: “The great commerce of every civilized society, is that carried between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country.”  Even though this has changed in the sense that this commerce is now a tiny fraction of all commerce, it is still the most fundamental, because without it, nothing else can happen.  ...
  5 weeks ago

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