March 2009 - Posts
Here's lovely reporter, Shelley Brown's write up , but the video segment doesn't appear to be up. Read More...
John Lott is an empirical scholar of great talent. He does not allow moral theorizing to be bold without backup. Thus he is skeptical of Loury's characterization of the American criminal justice system as racist because the hard facts seem to tell...
In the closing pages of Calculation and Coordination , Boettke includes the basic correlations between GDP and a variety of "real" -ly important social variables: sanitation, education, life expectancy, and infant mortality among others. The...
Arnold Kling links to Mark Perry showing off some real term growth figures: In 1950, it would have taken almost 8 months of full-time work at the average manufacturing wage to earn the $1,650 needed to purchase the 16 items above at the retail prices...