This from Greg Isenberg over at Twitter.
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.
Joseph Schumpeter on Rational Ignorance
via Cafe Hayek. All of this goes to show that without the initiative that comes from immediate responsibility, ignorance will persist in the face of masses of information however complete […]
Lessons In Rhetoric: The Grumpy Economist On Tom Friedman
John Cochrane has a Substack essay that has an important lesson in writing – Don’t piss people off if you don’t have to. He uses the example of Thomas Friedman’s […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules For Writing
Chanced upon this useful list of rules for writing on Twitter/X earlier today. Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing:
Rapoport’s Rules: How to Compose a Successful Critical Commentary
How to compose a successful critical commentary: One immediate effect of following these rules is that your targets will be a receptive audience for your criticism: you have already shown […]
23 Lessons from David Ogilvy
From The Ad Professor over at Twitter/X, 23 lessons from David Ogilvy:
New Thinking in Austrian Economics
Pete Boettke and Christopher Coyne have a paper in Annual Review of Economics, where they take stock of the contemporary research and development in the tradition of Austrian Economics. They […]
Overhead Revolution to replace Marginal Revolution
Arnold Kling over at Substack has an interesting essay where he challenges usefulness of The Marginal Revolution and puts forward an alternate theory – The Overhead Revolution. Select quotes from his […]