The Bastiat Society

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

from the Economist:

FOR philosophers the great existential question is: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” For management theorists the more mundane equivalent is: “Why do firms exist? Why isn’t everything done by the market?”

Happy 100th birthday to Ronald Coase.

Monday, December 20, 2010

More Money Doesn't Mean More Happiness: Scientific American Podcast

The Supreme Court and Obama’s Health Care Law - NYTimes.com

Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete | Daniel J. Ikenson | Cato Institute: Trade Policy Analysis

Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are Here | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

Management: Enemy of Enterprise - Doug French - Mises Daily

Is America Saturated with College Grads? - CCAP - Higher Education and the Economy - Forbes

Austerity: Word of the Year

Function:noun
Inflected Form:plural -ties
Date:14th century

1 : the quality or state of being austere
2 a : an austere act, manner, or attitude b : an ascetic practice
3 : enforced or extreme economy

Let's hope that our leaders actually read the definition...

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George Ought to Help

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Wealth and Cruelty

"Wealth in pagan Rome was necessarily something cruel; it's not any more."

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Does the Constitution Mean Anything? | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary

College Shopping Guide

Here's a statistically proven college strategy that will deliver more ROT (Return On Tuition) for parents and high school seniors: get accepted to an elite college, then go to a cheap one.

Going to an Elite College Won't Get You More Money; Being Good Enough to Get Accepted at One Will - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Hey Bossman, Make Me Happy!

Is Employee Happiness a Corporate Responsibility? - The CSR Blog - corporate social responsibility - Forbes

To Cut or Not to Cut

Fake vs. Real Tree - NYTimes.com

Learning to Live in a Not-So-Efficient World - Coordination Problem

Ethanol idiocy | themichiganview.com | The Michigan View

Friday, December 17, 2010

Schumpeter: Why do firms exist? | The Economist

Culturomics: Reading by numbers | The Economist

Mass prosperity

The Coming College Education Bubble - Forbes.com

Culturomics: Hacking The Library of Babel - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

It's not just a telethon; it's an ‘Americathon' | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL

Health Law May Be Unconstitutional, Florida Judge Says - NYTimes.com

After The Crisis, An Economist Reconsiders Cappuccino : Planet Money : NPR

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Hazlitt at 80: Rothbard's Tribute by Murray N. Rothbard

The Moral Problem With Estate Taxes - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Tax The Rich Con Part II - Forbes.com

School Choice Comes Straight Outta Compton Due to Parents Wit Attitude! - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute

Rethinking the MBA: What is the Purpose of Management Education? - The CSR Blog - corporate social responsibility - Forbes

FT.com / Companies / Food & Beverage - McDonald’s chief attacks children’s meal ‘food police’

Reason.tv: Is Wikileaks a Force For Good? Four Experts on Our Wiki-Future - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Monday, December 13, 2010

"Erin Brockovich" Town Shows No Cancer Cluster - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Doctors Ration Health Care in Pursuit of High Reimbursements - NYTimes.com

Rwanda’s Economic Miracle - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online

Groupon, Google, and value on the Internet : The New Yorker

Darwinian Heroism in History, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Mort Zuckerman's Recovery Roadmap - Forbes.com

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Trashing Education - Investors.com

Saturday, December 11, 2010

America's Waiters and Cashiers Are Over-Educated - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Manuel Ayau | Acton Institute

How Economics Saved Christmas - Art Carden - The Economic Imagination - Forbes

The Economy: Why They Failed by John Cassidy | The New York Review of Books

College Education at the Margin, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Elections Have Consequences--And That's Good For The Economy And Financial Markets - Forbes.com

Does Liberty Come from the State?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Obama Announces Estate Tax Deal With Republicans: 35% Tax Rate And $5 Million Exemption, For Two Years - Hani Sarji - Estate of Confusion - Forbes

We're not stupid, Mr. President | Commentary | Indiana Daily Student

The American Spectator : A Hollow Victory

Monday, December 6, 2010

Diminishing returns?: U.S. Science Productivity Continues to Drop: Scientific American

Rethinking the scientific method : The New Yorker

Why “state capitalism” is China’s biggest knockoff : The New Yorker

Can we trust in entrepreneurship? - Coordination Problem

Lord Townshend on Trade and Morality - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily

America's Road to Financial Ruin - Doug French - Mises Daily

Without Tax Credit, Housing Market Isn't 'Pretty' : The Two-Way : NPR

Europe's Debt Solution: More Borrowing : Planet Money : NPR

Humility in Economics | Acton Institute

Schumpeter: The status seekers | The Economist

Estate Tax Bootleggers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Interactive: 10 Years of the Dollar vs. the World - Forbes.com

Sunday, December 5, 2010

200 Years of Health and Wealth Data for 200 Countries in 4 Minutes - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Regulation of, by, and for Big Business, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

SSRN-From Rabbit Ears to Flat Screen: It’s Getting Better All the Time! by Steven Horwitz, Stewart Dompe

Mounting Debts by States Stoke Fears of Crisis - NYTimes.com

Bad Credit Risks U.S. Global Role : NPR

New at Reason: How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

No Doubt Ben Bernanke is Sincere, But What If He is Sincerely Wrong? - Coordination Problem

Neal Boortz: Let flat-screen TVs heat the moochers | ajc.com

Friday, December 3, 2010

Innovation Is the Thing - Rich Lowry - National Review Online

Renewable Energy Policy Conundrum: Candlemakers' Petition or Broken Windows Fallacy? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Frederic Bastiat, Phone the EPA! - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Thursday, December 2, 2010

From the Annals of Advertising History - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Fareed Zakaria's Right to Pay Higher Taxes Stops at My Right Not To. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Nicholls State University - Bastiat's Bastions » About Bastiat’s Bastions

Assange: I'm Influenced by "American libertarianism, market libertarianism" - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

When Do People Care About Civil Liberties? When Their Team Doesn't Run the Federal Government, That's When - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Event: The Virtue of Prosperity | Acton Institute

When Will Home Prices Stop Falling? : Planet Money : NPR

New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Delves Into the Evolutionary Link Between Religion and Cooperation - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Where Americans Earn The Most

There's gold in that there swamp!

Where Americans Earn The Most - Forbes.com

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Bourne Pronouncement | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Lady liberty has found her sense of humour – PJ O’Rourke checks in | City A.M.

Governments Behaving Badly

And these are the people who think themselves our betters?

Assange Says Document Dump Targets 'Lying, Corrupt and Murderous Leadership' - ABC News

Monday, November 29, 2010

What Austrian Economics IS and What Austrian Economics Is NOT - Coordination Problem

FT.com / Business education / Soapbox - The flawed maths of financial models

Obama Freeze Leaves Lots of Federal Workers Out of the Cold - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

FT.com / UK - Corporate tax reform found lacking

Slush Fund:Under Obama Freeze Proposal, Federal Pay Raises Would Continue - Janet Novack - Taxing Matters - Forbes

Price Controls and Black Markets in Canadian Health Care, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Sure Signs of the Apocalypse

First, the Chinese and the Russians lecture the US on fiscal and monetary responsibility.

Then a guy in Las Vegas (of all places!) does the same thing:

Mike Novogratz: A Hedge Fund's Perspective - Forbes.com

Ben Bernanke, the Fed, and quantitative easing : The New Yorker

How Did We Get From Mao to Now? - Ray Kwong - ChinaTalk - Forbes

Sunday, November 28, 2010

With Unemployment Benefits, It’s the Invisible That Truly Matters - John Tamny - Political Economy - Forbes

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