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Susan Stern doesn't understand that labor is an exchange

Sun Mar 6, 2011 4:15 AM EST

Susan Stern made several analytically false statements. In this post I will not bother addressing any empirical data, as Stern’s arguments can be shown to be false internally. She writes:

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us-news, rights, unions, compensation, workers, wages, collective, bargaining

Private Property and the Ground Zero Mosque

Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:09 PM EDT

I was watching a video on the anti-mosque rally on youtube, and I was surprised to see people in the comment section invoking “private property rights” to defend the mosque.

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politics, protest, property, private, mosque, rally, ground, zero

Emergence and Capitalists

Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:55 PM EDT

I was playing a strategy game, and I always find myself having trouble when I'm immediately placed in charge of a large army. In the game I was playing, it was a highly abstract, high-level strategy game in which I played as the Soviet Union in 1936.

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Where did the Skepticism Go?

Wed Aug 4, 2010 9:38 PM EDT

I'm kicking myself that I didn't see this earlier, but I was just sitting and thinking about lobbyists lobbying for controls, and thought about the incentives of "good controllers" and "bad controllers".

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education, regulation, meat, myth, packing

"Greed" Doesn't Explain Anything

Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:09 PM EDT

People are greedy, all are. Some value money, some value reputation, and they do what they believe needs to be done to get what they want.

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bp, british, greed, petroleum, salazar, greedy

Jonathan Hiskes Makes a Simple Error(s) on the Oil Spill

Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:06 AM EDT

Response to:

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politics, oil, action, british, spill, libertarian, solution, problem, petroleum, incentive

The Free Will of British Petroleum

Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:48 PM EDT

Something problematic about this BP stuff is how people assume firms are independent actors or that companies behave in some non-deterministic fashion.BP is a firm. A firm exists to earn profit. BP will do what it must do to earn a profit.

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bp, british, petroleum, ken, salazar

Terence Kealey - 'The Myth of Science as a Public Good'

Seeded on Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:30 PM EDT ()

...not only is government funding not beneficial, but in fact measurably obstructs scientific progress, whilst presenting an alternative, methodologically-individualist understanding of 'invisible colleges' ...

government, research, university, cost, funding, grants, basic, scientific