Here on audio or video is the talk I gave yesterday at the Cato Institute on The Price of Everything. Skip ahead to the end of my remarks which are mediocre, and listen to Nick Gillespie who did a superb job capturing what I am trying to do in the book.
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Thanks! I just finished the book and wrote a review of it here:
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/quick-book-review-price-of-everything.html
I enjoyed the poccast. You quoted my all time favorite Hayek quote.
(Laughs out loud.)
I live for self-deprecating humour!
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It still baffles me that Cato and Reason people hang out in the same arena.
Cato is the intellectual at the party trying to calmly persuade his fellow party goer of some basic truth on individual liberty. Reason is the drunk in the other corner sneering at everyone and daring anyone to debate him on the need to legalize pot.
Just watched the whole thing.
Thought I clicked on an old Ramones video, and then I realized that was Nick.
Very good.
The Goldwater Institute does a number of engagements. You should put out some feelers for something out here in AZ. The weather is fantastic throughout the winter.
Ray, I think that's an unreasonable characterization of the Reason crowd. Since the dawn of the Gillespie administration and the redesign of the magazine to use burnt orange to excess and jettison the traditional space after punctuation, Reason has been much more the magazine of gay sex rather than drugs. I jest, of course. Reason seems to be more lifestyle libertarianism (aka "cosmotarianism"), focussing on the interests of the staff writers. Take Radley Balko's interest in the militarization of the police. It seems close to the tipping point where it will catch widespread, mainstream interest. The Cheye Calvo case almost did it.