Some Monday Links
Tale Spin (Real Life) People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over (Scientific American) Good Citizens (Orion) I flee on sight. Ivy League Justice (Law & Liberty) Insularity issues have...
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A Shackled Leviathan That Keeps Roaming and Growing (Regulation) Do robots dream of paying taxes? (Bruegel) The Janus of Debt (Project Syndicate) Revisiting the Los Angeles of David Lynch’s...
View ArticleLiberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement....
Another aspect of the discretionary law enforcement consists of its selective application to opponents and social groups that fulfill the function of “scapegoats.” The history of humanity,...
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Should international law be part of our law? (pdf) McGinnis & Somin, Stanford Law ReviewAre small autonomous political units economically viable? Chhay Lin Lim, NOLInstitutions, machines, and...
View ArticleElective Affinities in Institutional Design, 1951
[Note: this is a piece by Michalis Trepas, who you might recognize from the now-defunct NOL experiment “Be Our Guest.” Michalis is a newly-minted Notewriter, and this is the first of many more such...
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Lost and found at Guantanamo Bay Jasmine El-Gamal, NewlinesWashington DC and the Proud Boys Ian Ward, PoliticoShould libertarians continue to be non-interventionists? Doug Bandow, antiwar.comThe data...
View ArticlePathologies in higher education: a book, a review, and a comment
Cracks in the Ivory Tower, by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness, brings a much needed discussion of the pathologies of US higher education to the table. Brennan and Magness are two well-known classical...
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The century of Chinese corporatism Reza Hasmath, American Affairs The wealth and size of nations Donald Wittman, JCR The fertility of city-states Bryan Caplan, EconLog The WTO: irrelevant and...
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Why were there so many Germans in Russia? Georgy Manaev, RB Did they miss the French Revolution? Edward Dougherty, Asia Times Culture and institutions Alesina & Guiliano, JEL Ireland’s nationalist...
View Article2019: Year in Review
It’s been a heck of a year. Thanks for plugging along with Notes On Liberty. Like the world around me, NOL keeps getting better and better. Traffic in 2019 came from all over the place, but the usual...
View ArticleSunday Poetry: Junger’s War Observations
Without noticing it, I heavily built my reading schedule this year around of what one might call a “post-liberal reading list”. The idea, that the demise of social institutions might be the inevitable...
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Antisemitism, Zionism, and the changing politics of the Left David Feldman, Financial Times Revolutionary postcards in imperial Russia Donald Rayfield, Literary Review Dreamtime social games (better...
View ArticleThe Case for Constructivism in IR Pt. 2
After a not so short break I took from blogging in which I submitted my Bachelor Thesis and took some much-needed vacations, I finally got my hands back on writing again. Before opening up something...
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Axialization and institutionalization Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon Google’s political problems are getting worse Shirin Ghaffary, Recode Who wrote Ron Paul’s racist newsletters? (Lew Rockwell and...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 9); Conclusion:...
Institutions, whether formal or informal, consist of limitations on behaviour that allow structuring an order of human interaction (North, D.C., 1991). Such institutions endow decisions with their...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 8): Inequality before the...
François Furet, in the preliminary essay that serves as an introduction to The Past of an Illusion, entitled “The Equalitarian Passion,” highlights that in the Ancient Regime inequality was legally...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 7): The open texture of the...
However, the law itself has its own endogenous system of production of rules, which operates on the abstract plane of the configuration of the structure of the relationships between its terms, and...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 6): Institutions as algorithms
There is therefore a category of phenomena to which the characteristic of being “simple” is attributed (in contrast to the so-called complex), ordered by logical models whose capacity for explanation...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 5): Logical models
There is a thin line between the abstract model of “natural selection of institutions,” its instantiation in an imaginary example that interprets it and the application of that theory to interpret...
View ArticleInstitutions, Machines, and Complex Orders (Part 4); Malthus and Darwin:...
The institutional evolutionism has a history before Darwin, parallel to it and even later divergent. In parallel, Darwin for the elaboration of his concept of natural selection took from the political...
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