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“With Notably Rare Exceptions” — Crooked Timber
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8220;With Notably Rare Exceptions”. March 30, 2011. Alan Greenspan is back as free market evangelist. And it’s rather wonderful. Today’s competitive markets, whether we seek to recognise it or not, are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque. With notably rare exceptions (2008, for example), the global “invisible hand” has created relatively stable exchange rates, interest rates, prices, and wage rates. 033011 at 1:39 pm. 033011 at 1:44 pm. With not...
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Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/25/too-big-to-fail-the-first-5000-years
Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years. February 25, 2012. One of the many fascinating pieces of information that David Graeber tosses off like shrapnel in Debt. Is that the first recorded appearance of the word “freedom” in a political document is in a Sumerian proclamation of a debt amnesty or jubilee. 8217;s decision in 2009 to transfer the assets and deposits of Washington Mutual to JP. Tell me more about these exceptions! My word is my bond) is the motto of the London Stock Exchange). The first peopl...
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Chilcot's Cheating Us: August 2011
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To Make Tony "The Terrorist" Blair's first Life Sentence one of many! Wednesday, 31 August 2011. David Kelly Judicial Review - Module 2 - ACC Page lied to the Hutton Inquiry. This post consists largely of the text of Module 2 of the Pre-Action Protocol. In Module 2 I raise the issue of Assistant Chief Constable Michael Page appearing to have lied to the Hutton Inquiry with respect to fingerprint evidence. The title of my email to the Attorney General is:. The text of the email of Module 2 is:. The issue ...
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Response by Malhotra and Margalit to Their Critics — Crooked Timber
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Response by Malhotra and Margalit to Their Critics. May 30, 2009. This is a follow-up to the distinctly non-sober but not wholly unuseful thread attached to my post. The following is, obviously, not by me but by Malhotra and Margalit. And not edited by me in any way. – John Holbo. We also address a few more technical details below:. 3 Some people wondered if people would be so disgusted with the question that they would not answer. Non-response is not an issue in this dataset. Only 0.7% of re...Our main ...
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Nietzsche, Hayek, and the Austrians: A Reply to My Critics — Crooked Timber
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Nietzsche, Hayek, and the Austrians: A Reply to My Critics. June 25, 2013. My article “ Nietzsche’s Marginal Children. 8221; has provoked much criticism. Some of it quite hostile. Here’s a complete list. Of the responses I’ve received.). I address three of these criticisms here—a separate post on Hayek and Pinochet follows. 8212;but first let me restate the argument of the piece and explain why I wrote it. In the economy. Most treatments of the Austrians fail to capture their agonistic romance of the...
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Booing too good for him? — Crooked Timber
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Booing too good for him? September 25, 2011. No, I’m not thinking about our Daniel. I’m working up to a proper follow-up to my conservative cognitive dissonance posts. This isn’t really it, alas, but it’s a start. It makes no sense for conservatives like Jim Geraghty to express this sort of concern. About the booing of Stephen Hill at the GOP. Debate. (Hill is, as you probably know, the gay soldier who asked about DADT. It doesn’t make sense for Santorum himself to have responded. Or something quite like...
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Red Plenty – My Brush With Brezhnevism — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/06/01/red-plenty-my-brush-with-brezhnevism
Red Plenty – My Brush With Brezhnevism. June 1, 2012. Apparently some readers have been confused about. 8211; until the end. Because the one thing I thought I knew about the book – no, I don’t know where I mis-acquired this notion – was that it is a fictional alternative history of how Red Plenty, the fairytale dream,. Contains plotspoilers. (It turns out the Soviet Union lost the Cold War! 8217;s bright plywood notion (read it yourself! Confirmed for me that this was indeed where we were going. How woul...
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