Stand your ground and contribute to the cycle of violence
Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides, Chandler B. McClellan, Erdal Tekin Since 2005, eighteen states have passed legislation that has extended the right to self-defense,...
Slavery depresses long-run development
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia, Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno, James A. Robinson Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history....
Artist resale royalties : a strange loop
[caption id="attachment_20699" align="alignright" width="300"] Ceci n'est pas un Duchamp[/caption] I once overheard a serious conversation between two curators as to whether the urinal they were looking at was...
Newspaper crisis ensuring Finkelstein’s demise
In the torrent of words over the job cuts at Fairfax and News Ltd, not many people seem to have noticed that these events also further undermine...
Nanny & the libertarians
"All I want to do is go to the movies, have a soda and popcorn" says Michael Graham. But with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg...
Republican heaven
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Australian media and creative destruction
This week's dramatic events in the Australian media have underscored the Schumpeterian "creative destruction" being wrought before our eyes by the Internet and associated technologies...