Posted by David Boaz in “Making and Taking,” Cato@Liberty, 4 Oct. 2011.
“Creation Myth” by Matt Welch, Reason Magazine, November 2011. Governments are worse than no good at “creating jobs” Read entire entry
FULL ENTRY » From Ryan Young at the Competitive Economics Institute, 17 October 2011: “The liberal’s job, then, is to legitimize the entrepreneur and the innovator, morally, ethically, and aesthetically, as well as economically. That wonderful project we call modernity hinges on it.“ FULL ENTRY »
From Don’s entry at Cafe Hayek, 21 October 2011: Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, the countries with bad economic policies are unhappy each in its own way. Good policies are boringly similar: rule of law, property rights, and above all dignity and liberty for the bourgeoisie. From McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity, p. 122.
“He should also contemplate a bit of history, such as Deirdre McCloskey’s ‘Bourgeois Dignity’ too, and give himself some historical perspective of what it really means to be worse off…” Read entire entry from Economic Incubator, posted 19 October 2011
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