From my October 15 Talk at the University of Antwerp on “Law and Social Order”
Some of the Organizers of the LVSV (Classical Liberal Flemish Students Organisation) right after the talk.
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Putin’s Pets: All 142,000,000 of Them
And from today’s “Names & Faces” section of the Washington Post: On the furry heels of last week’s Putin Pet Update (Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got an adorable Siberian…
No to Bank Nationalization, Partial or Complete
“Why this bailout is as bad as the last one,” by Jeffrey Miron
Guerilla Video Interviews with Two Reformers
Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia Lado Gurgenidze, Prime Minister of Georgia (Both interviews were made by Dr. Emmanuel Martin, Editor of UnMondeLibre.org, at the European Resource Bank meeting…
So This is the Foundation for the US Decision to Invade Iraq?
CNN: “Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story” Subsequent U.S. investigations into the intelligence failure around the claims found that German intelligence considered the defector “crazy” and “out of…
Vernon Smith on the Bubble and the Bailout
Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith, rather an expert on the economics of auctions (and many other things) in the Wall Street Journal: “There’s No Easy Way Out of the…
Effects of the “Licensing Raj” in India
From the September American Economic Review, also in an NBER working paper, “The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India” As reported on Division of…
Jonathan Macey on the Financial Crisis
“The Government Is Contributing to the Panic: It’s time to let markets do their messy work,” Jonathan Macey, Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2008
Education for Liberty
My presentation yesterday to the European Resource Bank was fun, but I was dead tired and could barely stand toward the end. (I had been up very early to finish…
Richard Epstein on Robert Nozick and the Bailout
“Robert Nozick Vs. The U.S. Congress,” by Richard Epstein in Forbes.com Hat Tip: Daniel Shapiro