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 [...]
Unfalsifiable achievements
William McGurn writes in the Wall Street Journal: “Saved or created” has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he describes what his stimulus is doing for American jobs…However dubious it may be as an economic measure, as a political formula “save or create” allows the president to invoke numbers that convey an illusion [...]
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