Thinking Out Aloud

The economic school that Lars Christensen named market monetarism, and whose blogging doyen is Scott Sumner , argues that monetary policy...

This is based on a comment I made here . (It is a little bit of a work in progress, as I have updated it over the course of the day.) Th...

This is based on a comment I made here . Infrastructure (roads, power, water, rail, ports, airports) is typically a network good or a h...

I find Steve Horwitz , along with George Selgin (prominent advocate of free banking and supporter of a productivity norm [pdf] for monet...

A description of what confronted a Commonwealth officer in the Northern Territory during the Pacific War (1941-5), when thousands of servic...

I had never given much thought to production functions , a standard way for economists to formalise thinking about production, until a rath...

Just when I thought I had a full grasp of the moral depravity that is suicide bombing, another level of horror is revealed. Al Qaeda’s prefe...

Scott Sumner and Noah Smith have been having an argument about China and culture. Scott's original post was here , Noah replied , Scott ...

Because of this . There is also Buffy , Angel , Firefly and Serenity . ( Dollhouse , not so much.) I have a particular soft spot for Seren...

If a private publication sacks a writer because they do not wish to be associated with his declared opinions, this is not a free speech issu...

I wanted to like the latest Conan film. I loved Robert Howard's original stories , I enjoyed the Milius-Schwarzenegger film . Watching...

My brother's wife sells t-shirts made from hemp and organic cotton . I can testify that they are very comfortable. She also makes great ...

Theodore Roosevelt would not have been terribly surprised at how the "Arab Spring" is turning out, particularly in Egypt. (Tunis...

Thomas Sowell uses the term ‘moral mascots’ to refer to groups that progressivist opinion focuses on at any particular time as especially w...

Theologian John Millibank has published on the ABC website an essay against normalising homosexuality . It does so by defining homosexual pe...

This was based on a comment I made here . American political labels are so amusing. 'Liberal' means politically cross-dressing soci...

The creation of Israel created two sets of refugees, one folk constantly talk about and one folk almost never talk about. The one folk const...

( This is an attempt to talk about money somewhat philosophically and avoiding economic jargon while grappling with what monetary policy sho...

By deeming sex is only legitimate if it is procreative, natural law theory imprisons sexuality and erotic love within procreation-as-concep...