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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"Not all externalities are crimes, and as long as CO2 does not make clear victims, it should be left as an externality for people to adapt to ...." In response to this statement on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ), I observed, in the context of the impact...
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[My very first post on this LvMI-hosted blog. Also, I see this was my first "Avatar"-related piece.] Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/daily/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to...
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