So, I’ve been learning the same stuff as many other Economics students around the world have been learning for the last year. Some teachers are better than others at presenting material. But many of them have been using the same set of questions and answers for years. Most of these questions and answers are freely [...]
In conversations about difficult topics it is important to share definitions. Capitalism is a word of many meanings.
In this conversation I lay out a defense of what I consider pure Capitalism and how Christians ought to behave among themselves, and what positions they ought to advocate – if any – in public policy debates. I [...]
Over at Common Root several readers are beginning a study of Stanley Hauerwas‘ Resident Aliens.
Everyone is invited to join us. I will post highlights of the conversation here.
If you need a copy of the book, let me know and I will get you one overnight.
Just leave a comment asking for the book, and I will [...]
I gave a Bible to my friend Meredith in high school. It was a Life Application Bible, NKJV. I remember that and it was 13-14 years ago.
Nevermind the signaling involved in buying a friend a $50 Bible, it means something to give someone a Bible.
Even a vocal atheist can be touched by such a gesture:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHS8adO3hM[/youtube]
I like Gary North. His older stuff might be a bit too Theocratic, Rushdoony-style, though. He writes regularly on Lew Rockwell’s site (LRC)
I don’t read much of anything else at LRC, but I do peek at North’s stuff there. Here is the archive of his articles.
Unfortunately, much of what is written in Libertarian circles [...]
I read a lot…. of blogs. It is true that blogging really cuts into reading of actual books, something which I really need to develop the discipline to overcome.
The rest of the Juris family, on the other hand, has been reading up a storm:
Mrs. Juris:
1. Persepolis: Iranian liberal manga. Really good.
2. German Boy: I was [...]
country for immigrants.
I have the pdf of a book by Lant Pritchett sitting on my desktop somewhere. He talks about global poverty and migration from what I take to be the most ethical angle available to us. Reason does a bang up interview with him here on his new book, and I just [...]
Some advice given to Peter Boettke by Mancur Olson
stop telling other economist what to do. Worry about the sins of omission by other economists, never about their sins of commission. Focus instead on the omissions and turn them into your sins of commission to see if they are sins or not.
Fill in the [...]
And I love book lists.
Here’s Tyler Cowen’s list for his Law and Literature class:
The Bible, Book of Exodus and later selected excerpts. *
Herman Melville, selected stories, including “Bartleby”
Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony.”
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Leo Tolstoy – Great Short Works, including Hadji Murad and Ivan Ilyich
Eugene Zamiatyin – We
Jose Saramago [...]
Newmark points out that Amazon has an interesting offer: buyers of a new-standard HD DVD player can get 10 new–count ‘em, ten–HD DVDs free with purchase in a post about overcoming path dependence, or how to attract early adopters.
I offer the following in the comments there:
Amazon, interestingly, is NOT giving away free titles for their [...]