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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

10 Principles Rap

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Hear the 10 Principles of Macroeconomics- Rap Version Source : Demand, Supply - Rhythm, Rhyme, Results ( Click for full version including ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Mankiw: H1N1 and the Spontaneous Order?

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This post by Mankiw raises some questions I'm not sure I can answer.This involves allocating scarce resources(vaccine) given the constr...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

(Sustainable) Food For Thought

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When we think of sustainable food production, we may often think about niche markets like local or organic, although there is some bickerin...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Sustainable Milk

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In a nutshell, buy your milk from Kroger and kill 25 trees, but buy your milk from Wal-Mart and that's like planting 25 trees! Why is it...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Politics and Science

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In a past post I made note of the following quote from an issue of Nature Biotechnology: "Obama is clearly a science buff, and is reall...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Constitution Day

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It is Constitution Day, and considering the massive amount of spending we have seen in Washington, the confiscation of private enterprises, ...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Interview with TIME's Brian Walsh

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The author ( Brain Walsh) of the highly scrutinized TIME magazine article " Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food " w...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Pollan's Big Ideas about Big Food

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Pollan, in a lot of his writings tries to make connection between corn syrup and obesity and the connection between farm 'subsidies'...
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Clean Water Restoration Act: A Paradigm for Regulatory Burdens

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Back in 2002 Economist Walter Williams wrote a review ( link ) of a book entitled 'The Mystery of Capital. The following is an excerpt ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Time : Get Real

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In a recent article in Time Magazine , ( Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food) I think that I have witnessed one of the worst pi...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Government and Public Choice

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Our founders certainly had a good idea of the things that Government may be more effective at, as indicated in the specifically enumerated p...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Government and Capitalism

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Governments allocate resources in a fundamentally different way than free individuals behaving cooperatively in voluntary exchange via marke...
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Sunday, August 09, 2009

The Dairy Crisis

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I'm still looking into the economics of this issue, but here are various related links I've looked at so far: From the New York Time...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Can Somone Tell Me What Duck's Unlimited is All About

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On the Duck's Unlimited Web page I found the following information about their support of the Clean Water Restoration Act . See relate...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

A Second Stimulus

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I have yet to hear a discussion from our leaders about how a fiscal (spending) stimulus will work now when similar policies failed during t...

Dr. Rand Paul on the Glenn Beck Show

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ADDITIONAL LINKS ON NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Sarah Palin Inarticulate?

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Is Sarah Palin inarticulate? On what basis of comparison? Would this be an issue if she were to actually run for president? Maybe not. Desp...

The Road to Serfdom And The Car That Will Take Us There

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See The Environmental Motor Company Making Detroit a subsidiary of the Sierra Club ( Wall Street Journal)
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Freedom Rallies: What are they about?

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Freedom rallies, also known as tea parties by some, have been proliferate these past few months. What are they all about? One of the first c...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Agriculture, Obesity, and Poverty

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The agriculture industry has and will continue to come under attach for contributing to obesity. These attacks are based on narrow special i...
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Applied economist focusing on the economics of food, health, and biotechnology.
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