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Posted By Don Boudreaux On November 5, 2012 @ 9:42 am In Civil Society,Country Problems,Health,Monetary Policy,Myths and Fallacies,Politics,Prices,War | Comments Disabled
Bryan Caplan on why too many people are – even without knowing it – closed-minded [2].
Pete Boettke on some weaknesses in market monetarism [3].
Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the flaws in the new study (by the American Association of University Women) on the pay-gap between men and women in the U.S [4]. It bears repeating: if such a pay gap as the AAUW finds is real, then no one should waste time writing about it. Instead, those people who believe that this pay gap is real should – and could, quite easily – make a fortune by exploiting it: start businesses that hire women at wages closer to the value that women add to their employers’ revenue streams. Not only will such new businesses themselves soon result in a closure of the pay gap, but the business owners – having made huge profits on other employers’ consistent stupidity or intransigent small-mindedness – will have large pots of $$$ to devote to their favorite “Progressive” causes.
And here’s Christina Hoff Sommers on the same pay-gap study [5].
George Will on ballot questions other than the one asking which “prancing pony” (to steal Yevdokiya Zagumenova’s apt description) will harass us from the Oval Office until January 20, 2017 [6]. Will introduces his discussion of these other ballot issues perfectly:
Tuesday night, as returns reveal whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the smaller gigantic number of Americans not wanting him to be president, notice other indexes of political change:….
Over at the IEA’s blog, Steve Horwitz weighs in against regulations prohibiting “price-gouging. [8]” (HT Yann Nicholas)
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[1] In today’s New York Times, Aaron O’Connell wisely warns against the pernicious, creeping “permanent militarization of America.: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/opinion/the-permanent-militarization-of-america.html?emc=eta1
[2] Bryan Caplan on why too many people are – even without knowing it – closed-minded: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/11/optimal_open-mi.html
[3] Pete Boettke on some weaknesses in market monetarism: http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2012/11/why-market-monetarism-doesnt-explain-everything.html
[4] Diana Furchtgott-Roth on the flaws in the new study (by the American Association of University Women) on the pay-gap between men and women in the U.S: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22543&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD
[5] And here’s Christina Hoff Sommers on the same pay-gap study: http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and-gender/wage-gap-myth-exposed-by-feminists/
[6] George Will on ballot questions other than the one asking which “prancing pony” (to steal Yevdokiya Zagumenova’s apt description) will harass us from the Oval Office until January 20, 2017: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-signs-of-americas-political-change/2012/11/02/6e4d4e3e-2446-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html
[7] John Goodman rightly is less-than-impresed with Paul Krugman’s knowledge of history and of even some of the most basic facts of health-care markets and institutions.: http://healthblog.ncpa.org/krugman-flunks-health-econ-101/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-27758
[8] Over at the IEA’s blog, Steve Horwitz weighs in against regulations prohibiting “price-gouging.: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/why-prices-should-be-allowed-to-rise-after-a-disaster
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