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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
I Don’t Want to be Unified.
The Absurdity of Such a Notion is Difficult to Comprehend.
Art. I, Sec. 8 Does not Read: “Congress Shall Have Power the to Make All Laws that it Deems Will be Good for the People.”
And, Hey, No Publication Pays for Published Letters to the Editor.
Morici Seemingly is Unaware of David Friedman’s Discovery that Iowans Grow Cars in their Cornfields.
The Arrogance of These People Never Ceases to Amaze.
Like too Many Law Professors Today, Deborah Rhode Mistakenly Thinks that “Law” Means “Command.” Perhaps her Employer should Change its Name to Stanford Command School—An Institution that Trains its Students in the Science of Ordering Others About.
Jim Crow was Legislation.
Western Exceptionalism.
With Thanks to My Better Half for this Insight.
A Nation With A Sufficient Number of Such Sheep will Surely Head for Slaughter.
The Messiah-Nization Continues.
And it’s Not Even An Infatuation that’s Sober and Mature …
Usa Today Asked its Regular Letter Writers to Comment— in Celebration of that Newspaper’s 25th Anniversary in September—On How 2007 Differs from 1982. (Be Warned: You Might Strongly Disagree.)
Reality Ain’t Optional there’s no Free Lunch, or Free Health Care.
Howe We’ve Progressed Beyond that Petty 18th-Century Notion of Individual Rights.
The Fetish for Force is Peculiarly Widespread.
How About A Freedom Doctrine?
Y-Ikes!
“I Want to Keep What I Earn” is Regarded as Greedy and Unenlightened. “I Want to Keep What you Earn” is Regarded As Selfless and Progressive. Bizarre.
The Following is Proposed With Only Half of My Tongue in My Cheek.
Paper Hypocrisy.
A Different Take.
Seen and Unseen.
“What Has Always Made A Hell On Earth has Been that Man has Tried to Make it his Heaven.” —Friedrich Holderin
Bad Economics.
Deficient Perspective.
And in the Privacy of His Own: Mind, Walter Mitty was Really A Remarkable Adventurer!
Free Trade and Peace.
What are They Smoking?
Keep Speech Free.
Sanchez Clearly Thought that this Kid was Dumb As a Duck.
To be Fair, This Guy Likely Knows no Economics.
Question What is to Economics As Astrology is to Astronomy? (We Badly: Need Such A Term.)
Note the Implicit Assumptions in the Usa Today Editor’s Argument.
How About That?!
Well, Not that Local!
On Guns and Deterrence.
Market Prices Reflect a Complex, Underlying Reality. That Reality Isn’t Changed by Preventing Prices From Doing Their Job.
Economics 101.
My Father—a Retired Shipyard Worker—Today is Learning to Cook by Watching the Food Network (When He’s Not in his Garage Fiddling Around with the Latest Electric Screwdriver or Laser-Beam Level that He Bought From Home Depot for Little More than the Price of a Cup of Coffee).
According to Krugman, Opposition to Higher Taxes is the Product of a Political Culture that is “Corrupt and Dysfunctional.”
Thanks to Tibor Machan for Alerting me to this Crowing.
The Ftc is to Markets What Lard is to Human Arteries.
Not Heaven Cent.
A New and More Gilded Fantasy Train Leaves the Station at Noon Today.
Again the Value of Life Isn’t Infinite.
But I Predict a Continuing Flood of Such Pseudoscience from the Likes of Mckibben.
Thoughtless Proposal.
Or Klm to Kalamazoo!
This is What Passes for Informed Discussion.
Another Angle.
Collateral Damage.
Fetish for Force.
Some of These People Long to be “Locavores”—Eating Only Locally Grown Foods. The Last Time Most People were Locavores Most People Were Malnourished.
Horrors!
Clowns.
Freedom Does Indeed Have its Price.
There are Exceptions, of Course, But the Typical Business Executive’s Understanding of Economics is Pathetically Weak.
Henry Manne is Correct to Call Prohibitions on Insider Trading “Cockamamie.”
Commercial Hal.
Giving Vs. Giving Back.
Reality Ain’t Optional.
Or as Arnold Kling of Http://Econlog.Econlib.Org/ Puts it, “Somehow, we Could Ratchet up Spending by Hundreds of Billions at the Drop of a Hat. Reducing Spending by Less than $100 Billion Becomes Armageddon.”
The Worst U.S. President of My Lifetime is Either Lbj or Bush II (With Nixon Coming in a Close Third).
Government Ain’t Us.
Dog Bites Man.
Unhappy Research.
Protectionists Make Targets that are Almost too Easy.
This Person Calls me an “Apostate from the Ranks of Us Who Care About the Earth.”
Thanks to Jim Swift for Alerting me to Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Effort to Exploit Helpless Employees. (Btw, Sen. Brown So Far Refuses to Debate Free Trade With Me.)
R. Roberts Vs. P. Krugman.
No Paradox.
Slick Argument.
A Rickshaw Economy.
More on an Insidious Allegation.
Bury Monopolists.
Well-Meaning?
Of Course, in the Case of Tax Penalties, the Agency is Unaccountable and the Charges are Unconscionable—Yet they Still Do Encourage Full and Timely Payment of Taxes.
Yet Another Example of a Member of the Professoriate Whose Ignorance of History is Unpardonable or Whose Distorted Ethics are Appalling (Or Both).
Orwellian Newspeak Reaches New Heights.
Communism and Capitalism.
Reading Benjamin Barber Reminds me of Reading Thorstein Veblen, and of Mencken’s Question After He’d Read that “Great Geyser of Pishposh” “What was the Sweating Professor Trying to Say?”
He Set the Standard.
Governments Can be Built; Nations Might be Built; Civil Societies, Alas, Can Never be Built. They Must Emerge.
Our Leaders: Http://Mexidata.Info/ID2931.HTML
Friedman and Kennedy.
Hypocrites.
It’s the Consumer, Stupid.
It’s a Magic Show in which the Rabbit Fails to Spring From the Hat But in Which Some Audience Members Really Do Get Sawed in Half.
I’ve Said it Before Trying to Learn Economics from the Popular Media is Like Trying to Learn Physics by Watching Road Runner Cartoons.
Doux Commerce.
Wanna Bet that Orszag and Deparle will be Proven Wrong—Say, by 2030? Seriously, Wanna Bet?
The Logic, I Suppose, is that We Should be Free to do Only what is Wise and Good And Approved by Elite Opinion.
Hat Tip to Walter Williams.
This Kickable Horse Won’t Die.
More and More Middle-Class Americans are Disappearing—Into the Upper Classes. (And with Apologies to Arnold Kling.)
Disposing of a Myth.
Although Reviewed in the Washington Post Book World’s “Economics” Section, Naomi Klein’s Book is to Economics what Spiderman Comic Books are to Arachnology.
Self-Delusion is one Thing; Trying to Persuade Others that Your Self-Delusions are Realistic is Quite Another.
There is no Policy, no Matter How Extravagantly Rapacious, that Cannot Find Some Ignoramus to Try to Justify it as Being Necessary and Even Enlightened.
Winning an Argument is Easy if You Assume that the Relevant Conclusion in Support of Your Argument is True.
You Want to See the Opposite of Dignity?
Answer Me This.
Control your Presumptions.
One of the First Things I Teach my Freshmen Classes is That Intentions are not Results.
Whack-A-Mole: Http://Buyamericanchallenge.Wordpress.Com/201 1/02/12/ Record-Crushed-U-S-Trade-Deficit-With-China-273-Billion: -In-2010-Biggest-Ever-Between-Two-Countries/
The Closing Sentence in Sowell’s 1980 Book, Knowledge: & Decisions “Freedom is not Simply the Right of Intellectuals to Circulate their Merchandise. It is, Above All, the Right of Ordinary People to Find Elbow Room for Themselves and a Refuge From the Rampaging Presumptions of their ‘Betters.’”
I Didn’t Go there in My Letter, But I Do Wonder if this Restaurateur’s Competitors are Less Able than she is to Absorb the Costs of this Legislation.
Overlook Kristof’s Dubious Premise that Money is the Most Important Key to Good Education.
Whaddya Think? $25 Bucks an Hour?
Endnotes
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