Monthly Archives: April, 2010
UK Elections – economic policies
One of the election issues that has a lot of people talking over here is the fact that Gordon Brown chose to wear a pink tie at the first ever leaders’ debate. This – the fact that it was discussed – may be surprising. What will not surprise anyone is that the second most talked [...]
Our Book is Now on Kindle!
We are proud to announce that our book is now available, in its entirety and minus its girth, on Kindle! If you don’t own a Kindle, you probably know someone who does and who deserves an excellent Birthday and/or Graduation present. And we all know nothing says Happy Birthday quite like a copy of “Bringing [...]
Smarkets
We just wanted to announce the launch of Smarkets.com. Unfortunately, this will be a short post. Since I am currently residing in the United States (and they have markets in sports) I am not allowed to have an account with Smarkets. I will defer to a video they have posted (although even this is truncated), [...]
More Trade = More Prosperity
Yet more evidence of our Dumb Culture Theory (admittedly not the best name), this time among 15 contemporary groups of people, more specifically small scale tribes and societies. Joseph Henrich and his associates tested over 2,000 people, belonging to tribes in Siberia, Colombia, Tanzania, and many other places. They were given versions of the Dictator [...]
Imaginary Drug Taxes
One of the arguments put forth by proponents of drug legalization is that, if taxed, drugs would provide enormous revenue to the state coffers. Purely from an economic point of view, this would make sense (which may be why so many economists tend to be pro-legalization, or at least decriminalization). From a political perspective, however, [...]
