Liberty is Everywhere and Unstoppable
Mi amigo Juan-Carlos Hidalgo recently returned from a trip to Cuba and shared with me this photo:
Blog
Budapest, Beautiful City
The Hungarian Parliament, on the Pest side of Budapest I’ve had some good meetings, including dinner with Dr. Lajos Bokros, former finance minister of Hungary and now professor of economics…
A True Hero of Liberty
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény I met my old friends Ivan Csaba, whom I knew from the old days, as well as from Oxford, and Tamás Meszerics, whom I had…
Back in Buda*
I traveled today from Alushta to Budapest and have had a wonderful reunion with old friends I had not seen since 1995. Ivan is now advisor to the mayor of…
Norberg in Crimea
Johan Norberg did, as always, a wonderful job (with translation) in his presentation to the Cato.ru Russian-language summer school on “Global Capitalism and Personal Freedom.” He autographed the Russian edition…
Reincarnation: A State-Given Right
Calling Cass Sunstein and Stephen Holmes, who insist that all rights are “positive rights” that are created by the state: BeliefWatch: Reincarnate. Hat tip to Constantino Diaz-Duran.
Student Group Reports in Crimea
Kakha Bendukidze is chairing a really brilliant set of student group reports and discussions on topics such as monopoly and antitrust, intellectual property, markets for narcotics, privatization, public goods, and…
Ukraine and the Benefits of Divided Power
I’ve talked with some Ukrainian economists who told me that the economy here is booming, not in spite of, but because of the political deadlock, in which no grouping can…
Cato.ru Pics
I ain’t much of a photographer, but here are a few pics I snapped from the Cato.ru seminar in Crimea: Piotr Kaznacheev explaining the case for drug legalization A Student…
An Amusing Hit on Bryan Caplan
Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Rundowns of our favorite right-wing ideologues.