A nice summary of the long-term trend on public trust in government, in the NYT : Trust in government peaked after the New Deal and World War II. It has declined since the war in Vietnam and Watergate. A New York Times/CBS News Poll has been asking Americans for a generation whether they think they can trust the government in Washington to do
The wealth of nations is mapped by their IQ (Times Online). The argument runs this way. High-IQ nations have higher standards of living while lower-IQ nations have lower living standards. IQ is heavily influenced by diet and health. Hence, prosperous nations should subsidize health and diet in less prosperous nations. Researchers (professors of
Having for years been subjected to the urban myth that Mises favored operas subsidies, I’m particularly interested in the point Gary North makes here : Should classical music be an exception to the principle of consumer sovereignty? Maybe you have heard the story that Ludwig von Mises once said that he favored privatizing everything except the
Lew Rockwell’s book— Speaking of Liberty —is eliciting very flattering commentary from readers of all sorts—and it occurs to us that these comments would be very useful in promoting the book. Some of these comments, then, are printed below. But so that Mises.org is not said to be guilty of puffery, the comment section of this blog is working so
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Here is a great story (from The Economist) about entrepreneurial risk, Steve Jobs, the rivalry between Jobs and Eisner, and Jobs’ decision to divorce Pixar from Disney. An excerpt: “Their reason is Pixar’s pool of talent, starting with John Lasseter, a former Disney animator. Mr Jobs’s experience of dealing with computer programmers, says a media
Former Marxist Guerilla, Now Big-Time Bogota Capitalist Developer (NYT). “Building peace is much harder than making war.”
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