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“…as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last seven or eight years I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of unrealized gains from trade to be enjoyed through multi-disciplinary conversation.”

January 29th, 2010

Excerpted from Art Carden in “A New Addition to the Bookshelf” in Division of Labor, 25 January 2010 (original link). My copy of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture just arrived … . I’m really looking forward to it; as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last (more…)

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June 9th, 2011

A voluntary association disaster relief update, Lynne Kiesling, June 8, 2011 in Knowledge Problem: Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action. Excerpt: This public good/free riding model has several flaws that make the model incapable of explaining real-world private action and voluntary association that happens in the wake of a natural disaster. The first and (more…)

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