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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.

Summer reading; fiction and freedom.
... they discussed freedom as a human need, like bread, like water. Itale got up and walked up and down the quiet little library, rubbing his head and staring blankly at the bookcases and the windows. Freedom was not a necessity, it was a danger, all the lawmakers of Europe had been saying that for a decade. Men were children, to be governed for their own good by the few who understood the science of government. What did this Frenchman Vergniaud mean by stating a choice--live free or die? Such choices are not offered to children. ...
... throughout Europe, stretched the silent network of liberalism, like the nervous system of a sleeping man. A restless sleep, feverish, full of dreams. … Itale went striding down the shady street like a summer whirlwind, his face hot, his coat open...
[link to EconomicThinking fiction page.]

Terminators and Technology, by Greg Rehmke, February 17, 2008

Tech 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.
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How Low Will Oil Prices Go? Markets, Energy, and Innovation

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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