Author: BooMan

Tired of Economists, Yet

I don’t have the energy to fully explain what a bonehead Jeffrey Sachs is, but I can show you a taste. Sachs is a professor of Economics at Columbia University, so you would think he might have some clue what he talking...

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Episodes in Wingnuttia

Let’s say, just hypothetically, that your state legislature decided to ban dishwasher detergent containing phosphates because it pollutes the water supply. And then let’s say, hypothetically, that people discovered...

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What the GOP Fears

We like to think there are absolute truths…something like Plato’s Ideas. For example, we think there is some kind objective reality to the concept of illegality. Something is illegal or it is not. Something is...

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