FP2P Quip of the Day Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Dec 27 2009 SHARE POST: From Arnold and Nick: “In many poorly governed countries, ordinary businesses are as tenuous as drug-dealing in the United States.”
Dec 27 2009 Central Planning Failure to "Get" Hayek David Henderson When I teach my Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom, I tell a story to illustrate part of Pillar Five, "Information is valuable and costly, and is inherently decentralized." The part this illustrates is the "inherently decentralized" part, which I owe to Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society." I won't tell the whole st... 4 Read More
Dec 27 2009 Economic and Political Philosophy The Intellectual Propertarian/Environmentalist Ana... Bryan Caplan Stephen Kinsella offers an analogy to offend two disjoint movements in one swoop:I would love to see libertarian IP advocates have to live in a world that truly implemented their IP views fully, consistently--it would be like a communist USSR stripped of its power to ape Western price structures, to ameliorate the effe... 9 Read More
Dec 27 2009 Regulation FP2P Quip of the Day Bryan Caplan From Arnold and Nick: "In many poorly governed countries, ordinary businesses are as tenuous as drug-dealing in the United States." 5 Read More