Big Screen Monitors for Apple’s iTV
I finally had a chance this week to plug my Mac Powerbook into my father’s new LCD 1080i HDTV. I had ordered a $30 DVI-to- HDMI video cable online (to avoid the $100 price...
Category: Economic Thinking
Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself?
(Revised and expanded version of 2004 post, quoted in December 17, 2006 Toronto Star article “The Politics of Ebenezer Scrooge“) Family, Work, Community Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on...
Migration Magic: New High-Tech Firms
Highly recommended is study on immigrant-founded companies in the U.S. titled “American Made” by the National Venture Capital Association (http://www.nvca.org/). Study in Acrobat is here: http://www.nvca.org/pdf/AmericanMade_study.pdf The Venture Capital study is about firms that,...
Free to Choose is Free to Watch on Google
The great Free to Choose series is available to watch via Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4303061419031514770&q=milton+friedman&hl=en It is nearly TV quality. It is a bit blurry, but is an older video. It is great, great, great. This...
The Classical Economists Never Thought of Crumbling Jupiter
[comments on a FLOWIdealism post] Adam Smith outlined a vast range of concepts in Wealth of Nations. Though a brilliant work, not everything stood the test of time. The Classical economists saw the world...
Wal-Mart Not Only Undermines Small Towns…
… it undermines small-town documentaries too. New York Times columnist John Tierney’s investigative reporting on the new anti-Wal-Mart film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices” turns up some interesting contradictions between the documentary-world...
Secret Post-Hurricane Plan Taps Into 1.4 billion Gallon Reservoir
New York Times articles we’d like to see… Secret Post-Hurricane Plan Taps Into 1.4 billion Gallon Reservoir– by Not-New York Times reporter Greg Rehmke Congressmen and journalists nationwide were upset to be upstaged by...
Trickle-Up Economics-Forbes
Highly recommended short article in June 20th issue of Forbes. Titled “Trickle-Up Economics” and by David Armstrong Naazneen Karmali. Subtitle: “How low-tech, low-cost designs are helping the poorest farmers on Earth grow their way...
Trash Technology Progress, Government Style
When I was young I used to take the trash out to the metal garbage cans by the side of the house. I wasn’t enthusiastic about it and I am sure I complained a...
Commerce Disruption: Harder to Tell Rich from Poor
Cheap clothes from China are again making it difficult to distinguish rich from poor in America. According to a recent AP story: “The Bush administration is re-imposing quotas on three categories of clothing imports...