For starters Steve Margolis (former prof of mine – and friend) has a piece at Newmark’s Door on the cap and trade bill.
Ironically, an outright tax would have been better than the cap and trade plan. What the current bill does is assign a privilege to pollute, and then allow this privilege to [...]
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Virginia’s DOT recently changed the rules for developers building new neighborhoods.
They don’t want any more culs de sac.
They say culs de sac generate traffic bottlenecks and make it difficult for the state to maintain roads, and for emergency vehicles to access neighborhoods.
Maybe they do.
But traffic bottlenecks can be [...]
in this quarter’s Faith and Economics (sorry no 2009 issues up) by John Larrivee. He has many of the same criticisms I had of the book (as far as I could read it) much better stated.
My main problem is still the idea of the formation of moral imagination under Capitalism. The claim is that humans [...]
I just got my new Spring 2009 issue of Faith and Economics, a journal from the Association of Christian Economists, of which I am a student member (which means I don’t really pay).
Kenneth G. Elzinga and Matthew R. Givens have a paper on Christianity and Hayek.
They define economic liberty (per Hayek, 1960) as the “state [...]
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 [...]
Kids often fight over things which were gifts from their parents.
Suppose I slice a cake into several (unequal) pieces, and distribute them to my children. Now, this is cake mind you, not bread, not water. It is a pure bonus. Dessert. So I dole out the cake. It is quite likely that an argument will [...]