Corruption and Old Age
Episode 3 of Friedman’s Free to Choose focuses on freedom and prosperity and much of it is set in Eastern Europe. The episodes are online here: http://www.ideachannel.tv/ In episode 3, at 14 minutes in,...
Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
First make sure govt. does no (environmental) harm
Leonard Reed, Ben Rogge, and Ed Opitz of the Foundation for Economic Education had much experience with energetic libertarians who attended FEE seminars. Libertarians were often frustrated that those around them seemed unable to...
A Student’s Guide to Economics, review by Andrada Busuioc
Paul Heyne’s “Student’s Guide to Economics is, indeed, a guide. Meant to offer basic information for students not very familiarized with economics, the guide has the advantage of a clear and concise presentation of...
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...
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...
More than Scotch Came from Scotland…
Cristina Tanase reviews Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World It is either about making a phone call, getting to the most remote islands by the modern successor of Orvile and Wilbur...