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Another Valuable Charity

My friend Gabi Huiber (an economist I met in Oxford years ago when, as an eager undergraduate, he hitchhiked from Transylvania to take part in a conference I organized with…

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Spontaneous Order

I’ll be at a seminar all day at George Mason University Law School on applications of the idea of spontaneous order (1, 2) to some of the disciplines (geography, political…

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Um, Does This Make Any Sense?

Rather than allow the plane to land and then detain the person they didn’t want to allow into the country, the U.S. government turned a flight around and sent it…

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My Brilliant Modeling Career

I’ve finally added to my site the highlight of my career as an international fashion model. It’s my ad for Mccormick Tractors for Dutch language farming magazines: Trekkerliefde kent maar…

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Musings on Undergraduate Education

I am occasionally asked for advice by young people (or I just volunteer it) on choosing a college. So…here is my general advice for Americans or those looking to go…

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Job “Protections” Again

My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…

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Job “Protections” Again

My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…

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Job “Protections” Again

My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…

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Job “Protections” Again

My friend from Canada Adam Allouba sent me a link to a column from the International Herald Tribune, “The Workplace: Firing’s easy in Denmark; So is Hiring.” It’s an important…

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The Most Important Lesson in Economics

Last week I led the new Cato intern class in a discussion of Frederic Bastiat’s brilliant essay “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” a work whose insights inform…

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