Category Archives: Articles
Culturomics?
Few things annoy economists more than anecdotal evidence. Just think of “mockumentaries” and various news headlines that don’t document “how many” or “how much”, but rather “what happened to a certain person”. It is easy to capture people emotionally with one, drawn out story, but this also goes against an economist’s training in statistics and [...]
Should Politicians be Anonymous?
Don Boudreaux at CafeHayek.com proposes an interesting idea in his recent article: Require all politicians to be anonymous. The gist of the argument is: politicians should be working (and they continuously tell us they are working) in the public interest: they are public servants. Therefore all they do should be for the public, not for [...]
How to Deal with Airline Disruptions
Most readers will be familiar with the airline disruptions that have been occurring in the past 12 months or so. Those who were affected (myself included) no doubt won’t forget for some time to come. We’re all familiar with the drill: what the airlines called “external forces” or “acts of God” force the train to [...]
Complete Drivel
I admit to following alternet.org on Twitter. I do so only because reading their articles often inspires me to write my own articles tearing their incoherent train-of-thought, vaguely anti-establishment rants apart. Occasionally, however, their articles are worth reproducing (at least in part). Their latest, entitled
Shining some light on Subsidies
A recent article in the Economist highlights a great example of how government subsidies have a tendency create more profits for companies, which do not get passed down to consumers but rather raise the price of goods. The focus of the article is MiaSole, which produces solar panels not made out of silicon, and therefore [...]
