Month: October 2007

I’m a free-trader.  . . .  I’m very libertarian. I’m working on a book called The Libertarian Democrat.  . . .  I like to make a lot of money. Like many bad ideas, libertarianism is based on...

Today is Blog Action Day for the environment. It frustrates me that the environment has become a term that’s so loaded now. Like it’s a thing apart that we have to decide to favor in a zero-sum game. Do we get...

I grew up in New Jersey, the most densely populated state. And I lived in Los Angeles, where the 405 is one of the most congested arteries in the country (giving rise to the term road rage, I believe). But, for my money, the...

Ready or not, here it comes: (And a pre-emptive apology: Forgive me, please… For purposes of this being an Announcement and all, I may slip into referring to myself in third person… at least it ain’t the Royal...

What if C.E.O. Pay Is Fair? A few months ago, Mr. Kay wrote a book entitled “Myths and Realities of Executive Pay” (Cambridge University Press), with Steven Van Putten, a Watson Wyatt colleague, that goes even...