All five of my Learn Liberty videos are now up. The complete series:
1. Intro. (thanks to Art for the shout-out).
2. Anti-market bias.
4. Make-work bias.
5. Pessimistic bias.
Jun 5 2014
Some 291 years ago today, Adam Smith was born. Richard Ebeling has an insightful article that beautifully introduces to the contemporary reader the "father of economics". Scott Sumner pointed out that, according to Thomas PIketty, Smith "had more political prejudices than Ricardo". Scott already suggested that writing ...
Jun 5 2014
Here are two of my favorite pages from The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, available starting today! I've seen hour-long lectures on experimental versus observational studies that were less pedagogically effective. Click to enlarge.[Excerpted from The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change by Grady ...
Jun 4 2014
All five of my Learn Liberty videos are now up. The complete series:1. Intro. (thanks to Art for the shout-out).2. Anti-market bias.3. Anti-foreign bias.4. Make-work bias.5. Pessimistic bias.
READER COMMENTS
Lars P
Jun 4 2014 at 6:36pm
I like these a lot, but I wished you had picked some less inflammatory example than organ trading.
That’s a tough one to FB share with normal people!
BZ
Jun 5 2014 at 3:11pm
@Lars – Why is that, do you think? Personally, I’ve shouted from the rooftops (and FB) on that issue for years. Too many people are dying needlessly because of squeamishness over markets, and it simply must stop.
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