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Hooliganomics
Posted: September 5th, 2010, 2:35pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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If you love ... your country and its people, beware the broken window fallacy: See also my post Ce qu'on voit, et ce qu'on ne voit pas (Frédéric Bastiat). ... -
Fritz Wunderlich
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 4:12pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Fritz Wunderlich (1930 - 1966) was a German lyric tenor, born and brought up in Kusel, 30 km north-west of Kaiserslautern. Never out of touch with his roots, Fritz Wunderlich found time to compose and record a ... -
Roses for Laura
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 9:22am PDT by Georg Thomas
To greet Laura, our wonderful RSE-hostess, and my fellow bloggers, let me offer you this bunch of somewhat unorthodox roses. Like the colours? You can grow your own multi-colour roses. To grow a rainbow coloured rose, consider ... -
The Palmer House - Frank Lloyd Wright
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:09am PDT by Georg Thomas
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What a great way of spending a weekend (see the below clip). Enjoy Frank Lloyd Wright`s Palmer House. See also my posts Falling Water (with an animated fast motion ... -
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 4:01pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Writes the (?) Official Travel Guide to Austria in an article entitled "150 Years Gustav Mahler": On July 7 on of Austria's famous sons was born: Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), the genius of the fin de siècle, is a ... -
Hayek In Nuce
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:54am PDT by Georg Thomas
Regular readers of our blog are familiar with my admiration for Don Boudreaux (blogging at Cafe Hayek). Today, I find myself faced with the rare occasion to mildly disagree with him on one issue: namely, what is "the single best summary by Hayek of his ... -
Polluted Minds
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:27am PDT by Georg Thomas
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a terrible catastrophe. It has polluted countless minds with the misinformation and untruths of "ecological" alarmism, and reinforced the emotionalism and conceit of politically correct environmental concern. With feelings so strong, and simplistic ... -
Tackle That Cackle
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 3:10pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Finally, I got there. I managed to install dictionary.com`s CleverKeys, a software that allows you to look up the meaning of a word by highlighting it and pressing ctrl-l. Merriam Webster`s right-click search is even better - you ... -
Huge Profits Awaiting Those with the Courage of Their Conviction
Posted: August 21st, 2010, 11:54am PDT by Georg Thomas
For those who believe that women are being systematically underpaid, Don Boudreaux proposes an irresistible business model to rectify matters and grow immensely rich:Start your own firms and hire only women. If it’s true that women are consistently underpaid, ... -
Germany 1948
Posted: August 19th, 2010, 4:21pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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My favourite Ludwig Ehrhard story unfolds at around time mark 2:00. Of course, combining "free markets with a strong welfare state" (time mark 3:43) produces a contradiction in terms, on which the whole pompous and self-righteous concept of the ... -
Here's My Cash, Give Me Some Debt
Posted: August 16th, 2010, 2:36pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Check my post Here`s My Money, Give Me Some Debt, on how and what I learned of the state`s Trust Funds, but first read the below excerpt from Christopher Manion's piece at the LRC blog, where he ... -
Energy: An Expanding Resource
Posted: August 15th, 2010, 2:43pm PDT by Georg Thomas
It’s reasonable to expect the supply of energy to continue becoming more available, forever.Thus suggests Julian Simon, and backs up his view as follows:Over the decades and centuries, energy has become less rather than more scarce, just like ... -
Easy Like Sunday Morning
Posted: August 14th, 2010, 3:26pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Early off to the cafe on a Sunday morning. Stomach feels like some input. An espresso is what is needed to build in you the attention the sunny day deserves. You finish your breakfast, sipping the rest of your ... -
Guido Hülsmann on the Division of Labour
Posted: August 13th, 2010, 3:28pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Guido Hülsmann presents a number of fundamental concepts of Austrian economics. Production and its limits, productivity, saving, the division of labour, and Ricardo's law of association (i.e the generalised variant of Ricardo`s much more widely known findings ... -
Quote of the Day: Economic Momentum, Amphetamines, and the Pulling of Weeds
Posted: August 11th, 2010, 3:37pm PDT by Georg Thomas
In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) ... -
Hurrah, a Problem
Posted: August 11th, 2010, 3:09pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Reminding us of the findings of Julian Simon's unprepossessed research, the Master Resource (blog) brilliantly summarises three "driving force[s] or condition[s] for human improvement":Simon argued that there was a third driving force or condition for human improvement beyond ... -
The Wealthiest Place in the World ...
Posted: August 11th, 2010, 1:18pm PDT by Georg Thomas
... in the 18th century was London. In her graphically written book, "Dr. Johnson's London," Liza Picard explains what it was like in the 18th century to live in the wealthiest place in the world:• "London street dirt ... ... -
The Things They Do in Crete
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 5:49pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Much of what is done in Crete is unaccountable, enigmatic, hard to explain. Don't you think, Laura? There is that famous suggestion that all Cretans are liars. A facile proposition of ... -
I'll Kill That Cat
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 4:35pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Via the Unbroken Window blog, whose motto is:The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. – F.A. Hayek BP’s spill is known to have killed ... -
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 - The Grand Grocery Company
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 2:44pm PDT by Georg Thomas
See more outstanding photography in a series entitled "Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943" from plog via the Coyote Blog. ... -
The Thames at Mid Tide - Some Oil Spill Maths
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 5:18pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Comments on the below post by a British blogger suggest ... [o]il is a natural product and surprisingly biodegradable in water ...and... fish and crustacia may actually benefit from all this coz those nice "oil eating" microbial life forms ... -
Who Lived Here?
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 4:39pm PDT by Georg Thomas
Look at the images, and write down or make a mental note, who do you think has lived here (all pics from the same house). Write down your first guess. Done?Now, look at the below, two adjacent pictures: ... -
US Insolvent, Argues Critical Voice from China
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 9:13am PDT by Georg Thomas
“The western rating agencies are politicised and highly ideological and they do not adhere to objective standards,” Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating, told the Financial Times in an interview. [...]“The US is insolvent and faces ... -
Mas Que Nada
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 4:40pm PDT by Georg Thomas
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Another Jorge Ben classic, enjoy Mas Que Nada in a 1966 rendering by Sergio Mendes, available again at YouTube: ... -
The Historic Novelty of Capitalism
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 2:46am PDT by Georg Thomas
Sunday is an especially inappropriate day of the week to commit theft (see very end of post); the other days are Thursday, Monday, Friday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Wednesday. Theft, of course, is incompatible with capitalism, which Ludwig von Mises ...