Austrian Addiction

Dan D'Amico on proportionate punishment, free market prisons, criminal justice, Austrian economics and much more.
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Blog Moved
Announcement: This blog has moved to http://imprisonersdilemma.rationalmind.net/ . All future posts will be made at that URL. Read More...
Response to Koppl
After my recent re-post of Tyler Cowen's comments concerning Hayek's The Sensory Order , Roger Koppl posted a reply and sent along his recent paper "Some epistemological implications of economic complexity," forthcoming in JEBO . The...
Sensitive about the Sensory Order
When Pete Boettke and I were drafting our two pieces on Hayek's Sensory Order ( here and here ). Pete Leeson joked that we should entitle the first paper, "Stop Pretending Like You Understand What This Book Means." Alas we settled on the...
IP lecture at Cato for IHS interns
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Caplan on optimal restitution
So this is a bit of a delayed response: After reading my paper, Caplan recently posted that he began to think about the challenge of optimally calculating restitution. While Bryan's willing to admit that the United States is excessively punitive when...
Frudent asks me about the tea-party movement.
I recently received an email from a former student now friend. He simply asked, "What's your take on the Tea Party? On the money or just a decent direction? Or just plain wack jobs?" I replied quickly but have since continued to think about...
The captivating Amy Sturgis
This week I had the wonderful privileged of enjoying a lecture given by Amy Sturgis at IHS's summer conference Liberty and Society . Amy's talk was awesome! Both fun and fascinating. For those unfamiliar with her work, Amy traces the ideals of...
Coordination in the JPE
Pete Boettke's and I's co-authored article, "Corridors, Coordination, and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Market Process" has been released in JPE Spring 2010.pdf . In this paper we argue against the perspective offered in Klein and...
The Business Ethics of Incarceration
My paper entitled, "The Business Ethics of Incarceration: The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses," is included in the latest issue of Reason Papers . The issue is a symposium on the topic of Business Ethics and definitely...
Coolest thing to happen to me as a prof yet...
Honestly I've been hesitating to post this because Adam Martin and Geoff Lea are sure to have a field day with it. About a week ago one of my former students from my principles of microeconomics class in the fall explained to me that he had digitally...
Interview on New Orleans Channel 4
My latest interview on Louisiana's state deficit for local Channel 4: Read More...
The more things change, the more they stay the same
When I was an undergraduate at Loyola I wrote a bi-weekly column for the student newspaper. This week I was invited as a faculty member to contribute on op-ed commenting on the recent campus wide issue of unionizing our dining services employees. Just...
Bruce Lee's inner Hayek
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise Read...
Bruce Lee's inner Hayek
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple - Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise Read...
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