At the end of January, CNN reported that in response to new tariffs on solar panels, Chinese solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar would build a plant in the United States. These tariffs make Americans poorer, not richer. The nineteenth-century French economist Frederic Bastiat exhorted us to look beyond what is immediately apparent to the harder-to-see but […]
I Write Things: Economics and the Environment
I’ve always been interested in environmental issues, and I’ve written some papers, articles, and reviews on the issue. Here’s sort of a one-stop shop for those. The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange (Independent Institute, July 25, 2017) More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange (Independent Institute, May […]
A Conversation Between John Nye and Douglass North, in Two Parts
I Read Things: 1848–or 8000 BC—And All That
Mike Rapport, 1848: Year of Revolution. This is a detailed look into the revolutions that rocked Europe at the beginning of the “treason of the clerisy”–Deirdre McCloskey’s term for the intellectuals’ rebellion against European liberalism and embrace of socialism, nationalism, and nationalism. James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. […]
I Read Things: Thomas Sowell Edition
Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite economists and intellectuals, and here are some of my favorite books in his oeuvre. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. I first read this at the suggestion of my colleague Mark McMahon at Rhodes College, and beginning in 2007-08 I started assigning it in my […]
I Read Things: Thomas Sowell Edition
Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite economists and intellectuals, and here are some of my favorite books in his oeuvre. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. I first read this at the suggestion of my colleague Mark McMahon at Rhodes College, and beginning in 2007-08 I started assigning it in my […]
I Read Things: 1848–or 8000 BC—And All That
Mike Rapport, 1848: Year of Revolution. This is a detailed look into the revolutions that rocked Europe at the beginning of the “treason of the clerisy”–Deirdre McCloskey’s term for the intellectuals’ rebellion against European liberalism and embrace of socialism, nationalism, and nationalism. James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. […]
I Read Things: Bedtime Stories With the Kids
She-Hulk The Complete Collection. Our youngest (David) loves superheroes, and we’ve been reading Essential Hulk vol. 1 and a bunch of other stuff–origin stories, Little Golden Books, and so on–we’ve gotten at the library. She-Hulk is pretty interesting, but there are definitely parts that aren’t NSFLKBT (not safe for little kid bedtime). Preview and skip […]
I Read Things: Bedtime Stories With the Kids
She-Hulk The Complete Collection. Our youngest (David) loves superheroes, and we’ve been reading Essential Hulk vol. 1 and a bunch of other stuff–origin stories, Little Golden Books, and so on–we’ve gotten at the library. She-Hulk is pretty interesting, but there are definitely parts that aren’t NSFLKBT (not safe for little kid bedtime). Preview and skip […]
I Read Things: Bedtime Stories With the Kids
She-Hulk The Complete Collection. Our youngest (David) loves superheroes, and we’ve been reading Essential Hulk vol. 1 and a bunch of other stuff–origin stories, Little Golden Books, and so on–we’ve gotten at the library. She-Hulk is pretty interesting, but there are definitely parts that aren’t NSFLKBT (not safe for little kid bedtime). Preview and skip […]