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Dec 25 2015
One thing that bugs me is economists who seem to think that their way of looking at life is the right way. Indeed the only sensible way. 1. Economists who complain that Christmas presents are inefficient. Do they ever consider the fact that people might get utility from the thought that others are thinking about t...
Dec 25 2015
One of the distinctions that Boudreaux and Hayek both stress is the one between law and legislation. Boudreaux illustrates this with three nice examples, two of law and one of legislation. On the law side, he tells a story that anyone who has ever parked at a shopping mall is probably familiar with. You are looking for...
Dec 25 2015
READER COMMENTS
Pierre Lemieux
Dec 24 2015 at 11:49pm
Impressive ad indeed! The story told there is not unfeasible (isn’t it Olson who told a similar story?). Most wars are absurd. It seems that the times have changed, though, and not for the better. Can we imagine this sort of event with ISIS thugs? Like the Cyclops in Odyssey, they respect no rules.
Jonathan Goff
Dec 25 2015 at 12:25am
David,
Thanks for sharing that ad. The story of the WWI Christmas truce is one of my favorites. Gives one a little more hope for humanity.
Merry Christmas to you and your cobloggers!
Jon
john hare
Dec 25 2015 at 6:14am
Pierre,
There have been murderous conquerors for the millennia of recorded history and probably before. Check out the methods of Cortez, Mzilikazi, and Genghis for starters. Not to downplay ISIS and their evil, but to point out that this is not new.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Yaakov
Dec 25 2015 at 8:27am
When I was in school close to 40 years ago our teachers told us similar stories about Jews he gathered from both sides during the war to pray together in their daily prayers. The story is told about WWI, because in WWII Jews only fought on one side.
I wonder how true these stories are.
Floccina
Dec 26 2015 at 8:33pm
It shows how crazy war is.
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