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New Curriculum! Economics In A BoxA Full Semester (16-week) Course in Economics
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The Birth of Freedom-- see the trailer...Drawn from Rodney Stark's great book, Victory of Reason, this video will be premiered at select locations around the country this summer. Details here. Victory of Reason looks at western economic and intellectual history from the fall of the Roman Empire. Stark argues the Roman Empire held back progress across the western world, progress which came slowly during the centuries that followed. The "dark ages" were not dark. Reason and religion played key roles in economic progress. NYT review of Victory of Reason. Another from the Independent Review. |
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Summer reading; fiction and freedom. |
Terminators and Technology, by Greg Rehmke, February 17, 2008Tech stocks are always a wonder. We wonder which few new tech firms will explode onto the scene reaping billions in future sales. The net benefits of injecting thousands of significant new improvements into the world economy each year in enormous. New technologies and innovation are more than enough to strengthen the sinews of market economies that each year must carry heavier burdens of parasitic taxes, predatory litigation, and monopolistic regulation.Click here for full article. |
So how far will oil prices fall as demand-side and supply side investments come on-stream? A lot depends upon the Saudis, as usual. Those who remember the 1970s, remember the abuse heaped upon Milton Friedman and other free-market economists who claimed that cartels always fall apart. ... [Continues on Daily Speculation]
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