Tomorrow, Friday, March 25, I’ll be giving at a talk at California State University, Monterey Bay, titled “The Cost of War.”
It goes from 10:00 to noon and is open to the public. Here’s the announcement and here are the directions to get there. It’s sponsored by OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Mar 25 2011
While vacationing in Italy, I kept thinking about philosopher Matt Zwolinski's thoughts on the deserving and undeserving poor:[T]he mere fact that there is a valid moral distinction to be made does not entail that we want our public policies to make it. It is, after all, difficult to discern between the deserving...
Mar 24 2011
First, we learned that business start-ups declined sharply. Now, we learn that job creation was sluggish. I would recommend trying to understand why these phenomena occurred, rather than relying on preconceptions. I think that there is some real work to be done in unraveling what happened. Commenters, try to refra...
Mar 24 2011
Tomorrow, Friday, March 25, I'll be giving at a talk at California State University, Monterey Bay, titled "The Cost of War." It goes from 10:00 to noon and is open to the public. Here's the announcement and here are the directions to get there. It's sponsored by OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
READER COMMENTS
John Goodman
Mar 25 2011 at 9:05am
David, I hope you will make you remarks available to those of us who cannot attend.
Good luck.
David R. Henderson
Mar 25 2011 at 10:07am
Thanks, John. I’ll be making it available in pieces. Part of it is drawn from articles I’ve done on antiwar.com and part is what I’ll present at the APEE meetings in Nassau. I’m also drawing from a chapter that I, unwisely in retrospect, didn’t put in my The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey. In that book, that was put to bed in the spring of 2011 and came out about a week after 9/11, I speculated that the U.S. would be subject to a terrorist attack because of the U.S. government’s interference in the Middle East.
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