In Tyler Cowen’s new book Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, sustaining and improving economic growth is the key to the future. Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments—A Review (Quillette,...
The Winter Holidays Open in Zagreb features a final motion on environmental cost accounting: WHO 2018 FINAL MOTION: THW oblige companies to price in environmental burden in the cost of their products. An Investopedia post...
For prosperity and human flourishing, how much energy is enough? American settlers survived and over time prospered burning wood for cooking and heat. Later energy innovations brought higher-density energy from the earth, with coal,...
Recent posts looked at economics and demographics of West Africa for the proposed NCFCA resolution. Recently in the news, Ebola is back with an outbreak in Congo. The major 2014 Ebola outbreak brought this...
In move to new website some older posts on books were left behind, including this post on the compelling novels of Nevil Shute. Nevil Shute was a successful aircraft engineer and businessman who wrote...
Economists have long been skeptical of national industrial policies, where politicians and bureaucrats try to pick and subsidize winning technologies of the future. Congress is currently debating tax reform and considering dropping federal subsidies...
Past posts have outlined problems with the federal government’s continued rocket planning and contracting. See “Federal Space Transportation: Time for Reform,” for example. The benefits of federal space transportation planning and rockets tends to...
The new Administration is shifting federal energy policies and that concerns companies, employees, and advocates of solar power. “Sunset for solar incentives? Panel installers worry about industry’s outlook,” Seattle Times, July 1, 2017) quotes one...
For the July 13-18, 2017 Heart of Europe debate tournament, one of the announced motions is: This House would penalize corporations for excessive use of planned obsolescence. Motions page has added comment: Motion Committee...
Military generals are charged with managing national security which has included protecting access to “needed” natural resources. Military goals have been stretched to securing resources “needed” for economic security. And for the U.S., overseas...
