tvhe.co.nz - 4/9/2009
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I like the preface to Bryan Caplan’s new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids . He says:
I doubt that “They’ll help me out when I’m old,” has ever been a good reason to have kids. Love tends to run downhill; as an old saying ruefully observes, “One ...
Human Action at Sixty
blog.mises.org 3/12/2009 — In September of 2009, it will be sixty years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action, one of the truly great "classics" of modern economics. Not only among Austrian economists but also for a growing number of other people, Mises's ...
The Baseline Scenario - Human Nature
baselinescenario.com 12/31/2008 — Or, why human beings are bad investors.
Free Exchange has Anthony Gottlieb’s recollections of interviewing Bernie Madoff about financial regulation:
at the time he came across merely as calm, strikingly rational, devoid of ego, and the ...
Trust us! We're economists!
themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com 12/13/2008 — From This Modern World comes a look at what economists hath created, featuring a special appearance by Paul Krugman (hat tip EU).
Human Beinz - Nobody But Me (video)
youtube.com 7/30/2009 — It's hard to imagine what the kids must have made of the Human Beinz' first album when it was released back in 1968. The band was riding high on the charts w...
Propaganda, human rights and the US media
VoxEU.org 12/16/2008 — Nancy Qian , 15 December 2008 Respect for human rights is gaining in importance in international agreements, but who is to judge human rights performance? This column discusses new evidence that suggests national governments are not good judges. It ...
What Does the Human Development Index Measure?
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 5/22/2009 — There's been some interesting recent commentary on the Human Development Index . But first, some background. This index is calculated each year by the U.N. Development Program as a summary indicator of "Human Development," combining data on life ...
Against Human Weakness
econlog.econlib.org 9/6/2009 — (September 2, 2009 12:56 AM, by Bryan Caplan) Whenever a politician is exposed as an adulterer, the same meme always resurfaces: "We're all human, we shouldn't have 'unrealistic' expectations, everyone has moments of weakness, so let's forgive and ...
UN Human Rights and Wrongs
blogs.nyu.edu 6/12/2009 — By William Easterly
Last Friday’s post “ Poverty is not a human rights violation ” spurred a very healthy dialogue on rights, including a response from Amnesty International , which mentioned the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
I will not be a ...
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