Austrian Addiction

Dan D'Amico on proportionate punishment, free market prisons, criminal justice, Austrian economics and much more.

February 2009 - Posts

I wish I could write like this.
Stephen Marche at Esquire titled this piece, The State of the Culture Is... Sacred? Just look at our current slate of horror films. Scary movies serve the same function in the 20th and 21st centuries that fairy tales served the children of an earlier...
In Defense of Jindal
Last night president Obama gave a formal address - arguably a prelude for the next four years of government spending, intervention and regulation. The Wall Street Journal commented that his vague allusions to industry regulations and bailouts were interpreted...
A question for Bryan Caplan
In The Myth of the Rational Voter , Bryan explains that, much of today's bad economic policies can be blamed on the systematic biased beliefs that voters hold concerning issues of economics. A way of rephrasing Bryan's insight - ideas matter....
Some self-centered hot-links
1. Daniel Solove (whose book I reviewed in ) writes on systematic disproportionality. 2. Market in everything: You can now pay $56.95 to read about how wrong I am. 3. Public Criminology is one of my new favorite blogs. 4. Danny Sahar is the first to cite...
Links
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. How much stimulus will go to the police state? Read More...