Anti-market bias, unemployment and immigration
Economist Bryan Caplan discusses the important topic of market-clearing wages. Why are wages not falling during the recession in order to establish equilibrium and full employment? Caplan gives an answer that seems common sense but receives little attention from professional economists and politicians. Is labor market rigidity a market failure? I’m afraid so. But strangely [...]
Barack Obama: Authoritarian
The surprising defeat of the Democrats in the recent Massachusetts elections has unleashed a great number of opinion pieces about the mistakes of the Obama administration. A common theme in these articles is that the Obama administration fails to recognize that the United States is a right-of-center nation that consistently rejects the far-left / progressive [...]
Depressed Metabolism- Buddhism and the scientific worldview
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- The low-hanging fruit of technological progress
- Free will versus determinism as it relates to cryonics
- How many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work?
- Chemical preservation and cryonics research
- The presumption of death
- Cryonics and fear of the future
- Hard determinism and the problem of evil
- Ocean power: a new era in energy