Ron Bailey , science correspondent at ReasonOnline , has a very useful post up that outlines how markets and the institutions that underpin them explain declining fertility in Western societies, and that suggest grounds for optimism when looking at population growth in the developing world. However,...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Jun 19 2009
Filed under: tragedy of commons, mises, Ron Bailey, Kuznets, Tierney, Hardin
In addressing in a recent post Rob Bradley `s claim to have a "high" level of readers, I was reminded that one of his best and most frequent commenters was a budding conservative, war-supporting "libertarian" who actually, in the past month that I`ve been banned from the blog, has...
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on Mon, May 11 2009
Filed under: mises, cordato, property rights, Block, Kuznets, coase, rothbard, Bradley, Terry Anderson, Bailey, Tierney
The Ludwig von Mises Institute (which kindly hosts these pages!) continues to outdo itself on providing empty climate posts, this time by bringing us a new author, Jason King (completely new to LvMI, and apparently with no prior internet-searchable commentary whatsoever). How is it that LvMI is proving...
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on Mon, Mar 30 2009
Filed under: mises, Jeffrey Tucker, WWF, Rob Bradley, climate change, Earth Hour, open-access resources
I got accepted into the Foundation of Economic Education's Austrian Economics seminar. You know who is going to be there? <b>Israel Kirzner</b>. That's right, a guy who has studied under MIses himself is going to be there. I have his textbook on price theory that I totally want him...
There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers are blaming man-made climate change and suing...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, Apr 8 2008
Filed under: climate, mises, AGW, Dolan, Richman, Callahan, litgation, Pawa