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Category Archives: Complexity
The war on health
While some bits look a little sensational, there are some really good points here:
Autarchy, Bureaucracy, Closed System, Competition, Complexity, Consumerism, Current Events, Ecology, Free Market, Health Care, Interdependency, Keynesianism, Legal Theory, Marxism, Motivation, Perpetuity, Political Theory, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Systems Theory, Technology, Trade, Wealth, Welfare Statism
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Why cavemen don’t live past 30
Touché, Alex Gregory of The New Yorker.
Sociality and coolness in modern times
One of the great motifs of modern times is coolness. In the early part of the 20th century, it began as a term of insouciance or what might be characterized as a social chill. Witness Miles Davis and James Dean … Continue reading
Juggernaut cometh
Jurist Richard Posner sums things up pretty well: (Becker-Posner) The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in … Continue reading
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Artistry, specialism, and the division of labor
The Art of Making, Alma Flamenca from Dimitris Ladopoulos on Vimeo.
What labor statistics say about our economy
Most attuned to the mumbo jumbo disseminated from Washington will recognize the patent unreliability of statistics. And most will not take at face value reports on inflation, employment, or other political economic issues. Still, the government keeps churning them out … Continue reading
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Consumerism and consolidation
Recently, this image has been presented by a Facebook group called Exposing the Truth with the title “The Illusion of Choice”. The assumption is that these companies have conspired to give consumers an illusion that they have choices in the … Continue reading
Man’s imperfection and government
There is current in modern political science that sees the concept of perfection as central to social structures. The idea is that man is imperfect and is incapable of perfecting his nature. As such, any attempt at perfection is necessarily … Continue reading
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Is the modern political economy a zero-sum game?
In Part III of Juggernaut, I show how the use of government as a wealth-transferring system necessarily exasperates competition in the economy and creates what can best be described as a zero-sum game. The zero-sum game is, as it would … Continue reading
Are law and order possible without government?
Part One of a series of films exploring a society where there is law and order, but no government. This part introduces the definitions of law and government, illustrating the concepts using a simple desert-island scenario.
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Government-first health care a risk to well-being
(Reason) For the past several years, the medical profession has been undergoing a disturbing transformation. The process was begun by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an effort to control exploding Medicare costs, and was accelerated by … Continue reading
The boundlessness of modern technology
(Rochester University) A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos – nearly massless particles that travel at almost … Continue reading
IRS to institute licensing for tax preparation?
For more visit http://www.ij.org/IRS Congress never gave the IRS the authority to license tax preparers, and the IRS can’t give itself that power. But last year the IRS imposed a sweeping new licensing scheme that forces tax preparers to get … Continue reading
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Greece–a portent of things to come?
Moodys Investors Service considers Greece to have defaulted per its default definitions. The announcement comes despite Athens reaching a deal with private creditors for a bond exchange that will shave €107 billion from its €350 billion debt. The agency pointed … Continue reading
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Can ocean cities revolutionize politics?
In the fourth part of the book, I explain how it is necessary to recreate the frontier in order to regain the politico-economic balance needed for free markets. There are many solutions which include a number of small and large-scale … Continue reading
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Can currents in childbearing be healthy for the economy?
(Child Trends) Having children outside of marriage–nonmarital childbearing–is increasingly common in the United States. A new Research Brief, Childbearing Outside of Marriage: Estimates and Trends in the United States, describes how the population of women bearing children outside of marriage has … Continue reading
Is the government an agreement between the people, or is it a coercive force that dictates what the people do?
This question is at the heart of the great debate: Is the government an agreement between the people, or is it a coercive force that dictates what the people do? In other words, is government simply common ground that everyone … Continue reading
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Wikipedia Going Dark to Protest SOPA
Wikipedia will go offline Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA, according to Co-Founder Jimmy Wales. Wales made the announcement via a series of tweets.“This is going to be wow,” reads one tweet. “I hope Wikipedia will melt … Continue reading
Good reads–The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
`The Righteous Mind’ presents an imaginative theory on the origins of human morality and the source of discord in the realm of moral systems such as politics and religion. It is one of the more ambitious endeavors a reader will … Continue reading
Sustainable development and the tragedy of commons
Stockholm whiteboard seminars: Nobel Prize-winner Elinor Ostrom explains how people can use natural resources in a sustainable way based on the diversity that exists in the world. Succinct brilliance.
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