Category Archives: economics

Evolution, Technology, and the Economy

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Bradlaugh

A reader draws my attention to this rather good systems-theoretic piece by Matt Ridley in the London Spectator. Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago next month, has spent the 150 years since he published The Origin of Species … Continue reading →

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Knowledge & the Second Bank of the United States

Posted on December 12, 2008 by David Hume

Reading about the controversy surrounding the Second Bank of the United States, I get the sense that we know more about how economics operates today than we did 180 years ago. But how much more? Enough to matter? I assume … Continue reading →

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Atheism = subprime meltdown

Posted on November 22, 2008 by David Hume

Mad Max and the Meltdown. This WSJ piece is very strange…pinning financial irresponsibility on the negative externalities of secularism. Has he heard of prosperity theology? Has religion inoculated America’s most pious ethnic group, blacks, from the folly of taking out … Continue reading →

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