Bob Higgs has this excellent essay over at The Independent Institute that questions a variety of propositions about the growth of government. Here I only list the propositions. The essay […]
Shankkar Aiyar on Unlocking Demographic Dividend
Shankkar Aiyar over at NDTV Profit has this nice essay on the need for realising demographic dividend and how states should take the lead on that. Urbanisation is a well-documented […]
Spontaneous Order: An Animating Actor, A Filtering Process, A Patterned Outcome
Pete Boettke over at Twitter has stuff to say about spontaneous order. Spontaneous order theorizing does not say sh** happens, it postulates instead an animating actor (the individual) + a […]
Mind-mapping Market Failure
Via Todd Tucker over at Medium. Another mind-map that I found interesting in this essay was on the reasons for government failure.
Who Gains From Subsidies?
Gary Galles has a piece in AIER. Recommended. An important principle often used in legal cases is Cui Bono (“Who gains?”). It is frequently the key to motive, in the troika of […]
Dan Klein on George Will’s Two Famous Works
Dan Klein has a nice assessment of George Will’s Statecraft as Soulcraft (1983) and The Conservative Sensibility (2019). Reading this review reminded me that I should read more of George Will, and Dan […]
Defining And Redefining Liberals
These set of links come from Cafe Hayek.
[Book Review] Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
Pete Boettke reviews Jennifer Burns’ Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative for the National Review. Select excerpts from the review: Writing his biography presents a unique challenge owing to the immensity […]
Peacemaking: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up
Chris Coyne has a timely paper on the the issue of peacemaking. He examines the two contrasting approaches to peacemaking: Top-Down pax imperii (“peace of government”), and the Bottom-up pax […]
Hong Kong Replaced by Singapore at the Top for the First Time in the Economic Freedom Rankings
In the latest edition of the Economic Freedom of the World report, long time reigning champion Hong Kong has been edged out by Singapore for the first time. The 2023 […]