"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" yandle - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Callahan finally speaks: but are external, "objective moral truths" needed for a community to enforce shared rules? by TokyoTom

[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that...

[Update] Bob Murphy & Gene Callahan flesh out the "objective" moral order: it applies only to those able to perceive it? by TokyoTom

 

 

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A few simple thoughts on the evolution of moral codes, and why we fight over them (and religion, liberty and the state) by TokyoTom

 

 

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In the fight over climate policy, Jerry Taylor of Cato tries to stiffen the spines of the purist enviros (in order to limit the "Bootleggers") by TokyoTom

Jerry Taylor of Cato is one careful observer of the carbon follies who sees the handwriting on the wall for some type of carbon pricing system coming from the Congress during the Obama Administration. Strikingly, in an interesting post up at MasterResource...

Note to William Anderson: Limited liability is a key to understanding the Great American Ponzi scheme by TokyoTom

William Anderson (an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and economics prof. at Frostburg State University) has a thoughtful New Year's Day post , pointing out how Paul Krugman fails to understand the causes of ouir economic stagnation and financial...
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Op-ed by nuclear physicist on climate change: questions for "skeptics" by TokyoTom

John P. Holdren , an MIT and Stanford -trained nuclear physicist who is professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of Harvard's Woods Hole Research Center , former President...
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T. Boone Pickens accelerates the tragedy of the Western water commons - by connecting thirsty markets to unowned, common-pool resources by TokyoTom

The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100...
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Climate change damage and property rights: do Lockean principles require Western nations to compensate poorer ones? by TokyoTom

Dedicated libertarian law professor Jonathan Adler and longtime libertarian policy analyst Indur Goklany discuss the above issue at in a Roundtable entitled " Climate Change and Property Rights " hosted by Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation...
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Bruce Yandle on "no regrets", free-market approaches to climate change policy by TokyoTom

 

 

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Yandle on the Tragedy of the Commons and Environmental Regulation by TokyoTom

The Library of Economics and Liberty has just posted a new hour+ podcast featuring Bruce Yandle. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/10/yandle_on_the_t.html " Bruce Yandle of Clemson University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center...
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Ron Bailey of Reason congratulates Al Gore by TokyoTom

[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are...
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Too Many or Too Few People? Does the market provide an answer? by TokyoTom

 

 

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