Four prosperity killers
Whether you believe that the Federal Reserve’s recent monetary decisions represent the smartest response to the current financial meltdown or puts us on the road to third world hyperinflation, there seems to be little disagreement about the risk of high inflation (or even stagflation). To Larry Kudlow this means that all the elements are in [...]
The eternal quest to fix prices
If there is one single belief that unites most political thinking throughout the history of mankind it is that prices for goods and services cannot simply reflect supply and demand but should be manipulated to achieve more grandiose goals. Although mankind has gone through numerous cycles of fixing prices, discovering the unintended consequences, and reluctantly [...]
A technocratic dictatorship
Arnold Kling writes: Starting last September, our country has gone through six months that shook the world. We have abandoned free markets. We have abandoned democracy, in the sense of having policies that reflect the popular will. The United States has become a technocratic dictatorship. The current administration is a government by “experts.” But as [...]
Barack Obama versus Michael Bakunin
There are great expectations about the ability of academics to shape society by “smart” policies. The anarchist Michael Bakunin had not much useful to say about economics but he was a realistic observer of intellectuals and power: Suppose a learned academy, composed of the most illustrious representatives of science; suppose this academy charged with legislation [...]
Depressed Metabolism- Buddhism and the scientific worldview
- Ken Hayworth on straight freezing in cryonics
- 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