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03 Oct How Seinfeld (Hilariously) Exposed the Creepy Authoritarianism of Aggressive Do-Gooders

Posted at 21:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

WALKER 1: Hey, where’s your ribbon? KRAMER: I don’t wear one. WALKER 2: You don’t wear the ribbon? Aren’t you against AIDS? KRAMER: Yeah, I’m against AIDS. I’m walking, aren’t I? I just don’t wear the ribbon. WALKER 3: Who do you think you are? WALKER 4: Put the ribbon...

30 Sep You people are crazy

Posted at 22:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

So, I decided to attempt a measurement to quantify this phenomenon. On Wednesday, September 22nd, in the 1:00 pm hour, I observed 400 Stanford cyclists on Lasuen Mall, a popular campus street for bicycles. I simply noted whether each cyclist wore a mask, a helmet,...

28 Sep First Apartment Checklist: Make the Most of Your Search

Posted at 19:27h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

What's up, everybody? This is Brandon Copeland, aka Professor Copeland. You are now tuned into another episode of Cope'ing With Money.Recently, I've been doing some research and I found that apartment searches tend to hit a low between November and April. Well, this happens for...

28 Sep Pinker’s Guide to Good Thinking

Posted at 13:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

REVIEW: ‘Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters’Face it: Human beings are pretty stupid sometimes. We fall for astrology, vote for morons, buy into conspiracy theories, and send our money to obvious scammers. Today, all this seems to be getting...

28 Sep Immigration and the Open Society

Posted at 13:45h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Freedom is “in some way a very ordinary thing, consisting in not being hindered or obstructed in the pursuit of our everyday ends, or watched as we go about our business, or prevented from associating with others.” In his book Immigration and Freedom, Chandran Kukathas...

28 Sep The Costly but Deliberate U.S. Labor Shortage

Posted at 13:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

For more than a year, due mainly to illiberal policies associated with Covid-phobia and lockdowns, the U.S. has experienced various types and magnitudes of labor shortages. In short, the quantity of labor demanded by would-be employers has exceeded quantities supplied by would-be employees, especially in...

21 Sep Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights

Posted at 10:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Constitution had been ratified and was going into effect, and the next great question before the country was the spate of amendments which the Federalists had reluctantly agreed to recommend at the state conventions. Would they, as Madison and the other Federalists wanted, be...

21 Sep On the Debt Limit

Posted at 10:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Remember this?Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It...

20 Sep The Misuse of Knowledge in Society: Intervention Means Prices are Lying

Posted at 14:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In his excellent book The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford referred to a competitive market as a “world of truth.” The free market’s invisible hand leads us to produce the right things the right way in the right proportions and for the right people. In other...

20 Sep Signaling: The Play

Posted at 14:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

My friend Jason Ford wrote this little play, inspired by The Case Against Education. Enjoy! Three Mercedes By Jason Ford (The Admissions Office at Foxmoor College in the Philadelphia Suburbs. Bart Amblin, the Head of Admissions, is seated at his desk.) BART (on phone) Send in the next candidate please. (Enter Melissa...

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