I’m going to be burning the midnight oil, so to speak, on several delayed writing projects. The most challenging is a paper on “Myths of Markets” that I am scheduled to deliver at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Nairobi. I’m late, which is terribly embarrassing, but I’ll get it to the commentators by Monday. (So far, I’ve come up with 21 myths, some of which are related; each will get its own short essay.)
UPDATE: Well, I snicked it down to an even twenty (I figured one of them was a special application of another) and finished up my first draft, which came to 8,902 words. I’ll go over it a few more times and then….send it off!
Good luck with your paper. I’m intrigued to know what it’s about. Please link to it after the conference (if possible).
Heading to the Mont Pelerin Society, eh? I wish.
Nairobi sounds interesting. Can you take a first-world airline there or do have to fly something like Air Kenya? I’d be a bit nervous on a third-world airliner.
Dr. Palmer: I know that this is off topic, but I just noticed something on a closed discussion thread that just about made me bust a gut. That guy Vance that you took on about banning or allowing gay pride parades wrote in his letter about you that “I knew that he was a fag….” Wow: he sure showed you that HE’S no bigot. It’s the last item on the discussion at
http://www.tomgpalmer.com/archives/041919.php#comments
I know that his main point was that his position is that whether to allow “fags” (or even “Satanic fags”) to parade, which he never decided, is “complex.” But going out of his way to call you a “fag” kind of tipped his hand.