August 15, 2012
US vs World Income Inequality
A facebook friend posted this graphic, from the Atlantic, comparing US income inequality to inequality in other countries. People posting this take the obvious thrust to be: Wow, the US is…
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July 26, 2012
Can a Liberal Education Produce a Defense of Capitalism?
In the process of looking for something else this evening, I came across some remarks I delivered in 2006 as a respondent at a faculty colloquium where the main talk…
July 21, 2012
Locavores, Droughts, and Famines (and the Market)
I am currently in the middle of The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet, by my long-time friends Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu. It’s a wonderful book, so…
July 18, 2012
The Speech Mitt Romney Should Give But Won’t
My fellow Americans, I have been the target of numerous charges by my opponent in recent weeks. Rather than repeat them, I will simply say this: I will not apologize…
July 07, 2012
Cruelty and power
I’m mostly offline for a while so I won’t be taking part in the labor discussions for a while yet. I haven’t had time to properly think about Kevin Vallier’s…
July 03, 2012
Pete Boettke’s Living Economics
This is the book Pete Boettke was meant to write. If you’re a regular of BHL, you’ll be familiar with the guest-blogging that Pete has done here. Or maybe you…