Browsing All posts tagged under »Economics«

A Philosophical and Financial Case for an Aggressive Estate Tax

February 15, 2012

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The Occupy Movement is dormant for the moment. Cold temperatures and aggressive police forces have forced tents out of parks and financial districts in major cities around the world, but there are still rumblings. Occupy Oakland is still highly active, a frothy substance was heckled and glitter-bombed by Occupy Tacoma yesterday, and there is a global… [Read more…]

On Luxuries and the Kitchen Table

January 12, 2012

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The ongoing physical battles on the streets of Greece have been mirrored in the rest of the financially struggling world with a rhetorical battle to establish the narrative of exactly what went wrong there. The deficit hawk s are winning this battle. Their message is generally along the same line as this Forbes article: A bailout,… [Read more…]

Occupy Edinburgh Day 14: The Robin Hood Tax

October 29, 2011

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Occupy Edinburgh has grown some more. Far from fizzling out as the weather gets colder, the occupation has flourished. Fully one half of St. Andrew Park is covered in tents. Yet despite the numbers now living there, the site is remarkably well-run. There are maintenance tents as well as pavilions both for serving food and organizing and a… [Read more…]

Calculators, Railroads and Spam: Some Thoughts on Regulation and Innovation

July 19, 2011

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Check out this video of Milton Friedman talking about a calculator and the railroads: The oversized LCD calculator that Friedman displays in the beginning does a lot to date the video, but anybody with any experience in the interminable and politically polarized dispute over government interference in the market will know that the argument he… [Read more…]

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