Economy
Who are currently the most influential thinkers/intellectuals on the Left?
I was discussing this question with some others, and I don’t find it so easy to answer. Claude ...View More
Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic
I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in my lates ...View More
Gatekeeping is Apple’s Brand Promise
Steve Sinofsky, former president of Microsoft’s Windows division and now a VC, has an excellent deep ...View More
Austin Vernon on drones and defense (from my email)
I think they still favor the defensive. On the front line they make movement, hence offense, very di ...View More
My podcast with Thomas Burnett
Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit: T ...View More
Thomas Saving, RIP
Here is an appreciation from Texas A&M. Adblock test (Why?)
Do current trends in drone technology favor offense or defense?
At first people thought that drones favored defense, since Ukraine, in its war against Russia, was d ...View More
Some triumphs of 19th century liberalism
Here is an outline of part of my lecture. I presented “free trade” (NB: it wasn’t totally free ...View More
Steve Levitt on the future of economics
It’s really, right now, I think the profession is very inward-looking. It’s rewarding people who do ...View More
The El Salvador tax reform
El Salvador’s Congress approved on Tuesday a reform to remove income taxes previously imposed on mon ...View More