This outstanding book was ten years in the making, but it is finally here and the result is startling. It is a pocket edition, super economical, 525 pages of Turgot - the bulk of his life’s work, all beautifully organized. He might have been the key influence on Jefferson but, in any case, he certainly was the great French liberal of the 18th
This has been in my “drafts” file for a while, and I decided to go ahead and post it now that some of the initial fury has died down and since I read this post by Steve Horwitz on how, apparently, some organizations that have received funding from AT&T are explicitly endorsing AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile. You might have heard about the
In my article “ Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide ,” I noted that for some time I’ve thought of putting together some material into an “argumentation-ethics reader” book. However, logistic, copyright, and other issues would delay the preparation and actual publication of a book for a long time (at best)—and since most of the pieces
Ever since the release of Google+, I’ve been thinking through what Google had to go through to match and improve on Facebook. People think that geekery is all about code but there is serious intellectual work that precedes the code that is just as hard. Google had to figure out what they did wrong with Buzz (as I explained ) but also figure out
The wavelike movements affecting the economic system, the recurrence of periods of boom which are followed by periods of depression, [and it] is the unavoidable outcome of the attempts, repeated again and again, to lower the gross market rate of interest by means of credit expansion. There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom
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