https://psyche.co/ideas/the-mathematical-case-against-blaming-people-for-their-misfortune?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=31d26b3531-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_01_18_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-31d26b3531-40962949 Kenny Chow was born in Myanmar, and moved to New York City in 1987. He worked for years as…

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/511?fbclid=IwAR2GHm9zXnNcCxBqyzRhtaeX5VHfG5DtJKjrxd8bgjNtHEeg9ORc9wBiz48 The Scottish judge Lord Kames (1696-1782) thought that the Courts should step in to ban grants of monopoly issued…

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/548?fbclid=IwAR2Mj05HDOp4hgq-tad5JSpE_CNSl7p2_zS6-hxAFMePgp1oi4V2GKWekGo The political theorist Anthony de Jasay (1925-) believes that interest groups (made up of “predators” and free-riding “parasites”) will…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/inequality-free-market-myth-billionaires We need an informed public that sees through the poisonous myth billionaires want us to believe: that income is…

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, Even after eleven years experience, and a per Bitcoin…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/economics-and-epidemiology-revisited.html The Economist was kind enough to reference my earlier blog post on this topic, from April 12, so I…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pandemic-was-final-blow-our-collective-notion-money-something-real By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable,” declared…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/hayekian-behavioral-economics.html From Cass Sunstein: A neo-Hayekian approach would seek to reduce the knowledge problem by asking not what outsiders want,…

by Joseph Shieber If you’ve any familiarity with the history of economic theory, you’ll no doubt have heard of the…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/08/probabilistic-profit-from-ufos.html Let’s say the rest of the market was undervaluing the chance of UFOs being “something interesting.”  What might be…