Some Links
Posted By Don Boudreaux On June 24, 2012 @ 1:41 pm In Books,Civil Society,Creative destruction,Economics,History,Other People's Money,Politics,State of Macro | Comments Disabled
Undergrads take note! Steve Horwitz is offering a monetary prize for best essay on a Doonesbury cartoon [1]. (But hurry!)
Jim DeLong’s new book – Ending ‘Big Sis’ - is out. I read it in manuscript form and recommend it highly [2]. (‘Sis’ is an acronym for “special-interest state.”)
GMU law professor Ilya Somin, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, challenges Peter Orszag’s case for mandatory voting [3]. Be sure also to click on and read the link that Ilya has to Tim Cavanaugh’s essay on this matter over at Reason’s Hit & Run. (Why are so many people willing to jump at the opportunity to to use force to [try to] make observed patterns of human behavior conform to patterns that that these force-loving people imagine would be better than patterns of human behavior that actually prevail? Just a question.)
David Henderson, writing here for Defining Ideas, offers an important lesson in fiscal history [4] – one to which Keynesians should pay special attention. (I especially like David’s debunking of the “pent-up demand” hypothesis for explaining the post-WWII economic boom. That hypothesis has always struck me as being especially weak, even on Keynesianism’s own grounds. If I have time, I’ll soon post separately on this issue.)
Walter Grinder (by e-mail) reports that he “found this Spiked article [5] [by Christopher Snowdon] to be a pretty good lesson in the politicization of civil society.” I agree with Walter.
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[1] Steve Horwitz is offering a monetary prize for best essay on a Doonesbury cartoon: http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2012/06/a-quick-contest-for-undergraduates.html
[2] Jim DeLong’s new book – Ending ‘Big Sis’ - is out. I read it in manuscript form and recommend it highly: http://www.specialintereststate.org/
[3] GMU law professor Ilya Somin, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, challenges Peter Orszag’s case for mandatory voting: http://www.volokh.com/2012/06/24/peter-orszags-case-for-compulsory-voting/
[4] David Henderson, writing here for Defining Ideas, offers an important lesson in fiscal history: http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/120481
[5] this Spiked article: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_preview/12547
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