The Escaping Paternalism Book Club starts next week. Get your copy now and read this profound work of scholarship! 
Jul 11 2020
Here's Tyler Cowen: But what struck me most of all was how much the “Old New Left” — whatever you think of it — had more metaphysical and ethical and aesthetic imagination — than the New New Left variants running around today. Bob Dylan wrote My Back Pages at age 23. Here are a few stanzas: Half-wracked ...
Jul 10 2020
I rarely find time to listen to podcasts that are longer than 10 minutes. But I found the following description intriguing: Pointing to a recent Twitter thread from a progressive detailing his white male cisness, Bob shows how narrow the focus is on only particular “privileges” and not others. More generally, the...
Jul 10 2020
The Escaping Paternalism Book Club starts next week. Get your copy now and read this profound work of scholarship!
READER COMMENTS
Thomas Hutcheson
Jul 10 2020 at 4:47pm
I hope the authors distinguish clearly between, paternalism (anti-Big Gulp regulations), economies of scale (one city inspector v each restaurant patron checking for cockroaches in the kitchen), and externaities (tax on net emissions of CO2). The costs and benefits of each are very different.
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