Another Package of Insights from Tyler Cowen
I just finished Tyler Cowen’s enlightening new book, Discover Your Inner Economist. It’s a good antidote to the “isn’t economics weirdly counter-intuitive” genre, which, although often fun, doesn’t do as…
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A Harrowing and Terrible Story
The story of Alex Kurzem, aka Ilya Galperin. That that terrible period could have produced more than one case like that of Solomon Perel is remarkable.
Summer School on Freedom, Law, and Prosperity in China
Our partners in China ran their own Cato University this last week: the Lao Tse and Adam Smith Academy.
Brandishing Brands
Edward Snyder of the University of Chicago Business School has a novel idea about the problem of some unscrupulous manufacturers in China cheating customers (including other manufacturers) with unsafe products:…
A Travesty of Justice
The Jose Padilla case is a good example of why legal procedures and procedural rights are so important. My colleagues Tim Lynch and Bob Levy on this deeply disturbing case.
Kitty Bars…..
Markets Are Amazing: Cat Bars! And check out the lap dancing pusses on offer. Hat tip to Constantino.
An Elegant Explanation
No, it doesn’t answer every question or go into every corner of the theory of individual rights, life-boat cases, and so on, but this is an elegant statement.
Cato-Sponsored Seminars on Libertarian Thought: Ghana, China, Crimea
Inspiring African Transformation I’m pleased that, following on the successful Cato University (with 179 participants) in San Diego last month, two major seminars on libertarian thought have been run this…
A Disturbing Picture of What’s to Come?
What Does This Suggest?: “[Stalin] is considered one of the most successful leaders of the U.S.S.R. During his leadership the territory of the country was expanded and reached the boundaries…