Please, do me a favor and add Megan Mcardle, deputy countries editor of Economist.com, to your blogroll. We know her in the blog community as Jane Galt of Asymmetrical Information. She is a University Of Chicago economist that writes well and has many great posts like this one.
The post is worth quoting in full:
The poor […]
Archive for September, 2005
Sep30th2005
The Problems Of The Poor
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Poverty. 18 CommentsSep30th2005
“Lincoln said, “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” We’re not explicitly denying freedom to illegal immigrants, but shouldn’t we be more welcoming to those who simply seek a better life? Is there such a difference between Haitian refugees and Cuban dissidents? […]
Sep29th2005
Principled Conservatives Are Not Happy With President Bush
Published by in Economics and General. 16 Comments…and frankly, that is a good thing.
Conservative Republican economist Bruce Bartlett testified before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, this is what he said:
Statement by Bruce R. Bartlett
September 23, 2005
Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you this morning. As you know, I testify as a Republican—I have served in senior political positions in […]
Sep29th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 Comments“I would like to return to the issue of motivation. One reason that I am pro-immigrant is that I think that many immigrants — and certainly the immigrants I most want to encourage — are highly appreciative of the American system. Coming from countries where government controls more of the economy and where public officials […]
Sep28th2005
The Growing Education Gap And Universities Part In It
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and University. 7 CommentsConservative New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote in the New York Times:
Especially in these days after Katrina, everybody laments poverty and inequality. But what are you doing about it? For example, let’s say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing […]
Sep28th2005
“It’s worth remembering that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to succeed Justice Byron “Whizzer” White — a conservative. There wasn’t any hand-wringing on the Republican side (and certainly none in the press!) about whether she would “shift” the court to the left . . . it was understood that she would. It was also understood […]
Sep27th2005
Intellectuals And Socialism
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Communism, Economics and General. 1 CommentThe Adam Smith Institute reports:
Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, spoke to the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Iceland about the attraction which intellectuals feel for socialism and similar ideologies. He quoted Hayek’s observation that intellectuals are drawn to visions and ideas, as well as to systems which accord them a greater share of […]
Sep27th2005
“It is particularly interesting that Crash illustrates one of the deep truths of models of statistical discrimination: The real social conflict is not between groups, but within groups. People who are below-average for their group make life worse for people who are above-average for their group. Women who get job training and then quit to […]
Sep26th2005
The President of Iraq writes:
We Need American Troops
Thank you for liberating my country. Please don’t leave before the job is done.
BY JALAL TALABANI
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
BAGHDAD–There is no more important international issue today than the need to defeat the curse of terrorism. And as the first democratically elected president of Iraq, […]
Sep26th2005
If It Was Up To You, What Government Pork Would You Cut?
Published by in Economics and General. 1 CommentI am not sure if I agree with everything, but Ken over at Chicago Boyz is on the right track.
Sep26th2005
“…what are the fruits of militant secularism? Are the lives of Robespierre, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao not instructive? And have we no personal knowledge of the utter misery that has plagued friends who mistakenly thought they could live happy and completely secular lives? As for wholly secular states, Oz Guinness, writing in the Wilson Quarterly […]
Sep24th2005
Given to us by the LA Times:
Roe Ruling: More Than Its Author Intended
By David G. Savage Times Staff Writer
Wed Sep 14, 7:55 AM ET
WASHINGTON — In mid-1971, the Supreme Court agreed for the first time to hear a constitutional challenge to the long-standing state laws limiting abortion. Its decision to do so reverberates today.
At that […]
Sep24th2005
“But I also hope that around the world it’s noted that on matters of race, the United States is about 100 percent ahead of any place else in the world in issues of race. And I say that absolutely fundamentally. You go to any other meeting around the world and show me the kind of […]
Sep23rd2005
The first one is, “Human Action: A Treatise on Economics“, by Ludwig Von Mises. This book is one of the, if not the, most important work of economic or social theory written in the twentieth century, it is written by a world-respected economist with Human Action being his masterpiece. A must read for anybody even […]
Sep23rd2005
“India is a good example to consider in evaluating the respective roles of aid and self-generated reforms. India probably received more economic aid from international organizations than any other nation during the 40 years from its independence to the mid-1980’s. Yet this large and complicated democracy experienced only a slow growth in per capita income […]
Sep22nd2005
Eugene Volokh, professor of Law at UCLA describes the federalist society:
Having joined the Federalists in 1987, two years before starting law school (I was 19 and had seen their ad in the National Review), I feel qualified to answer these questions. The Federalist Society is a group of conservatives, libertarians and moderates who share […]
