2019: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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 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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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 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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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...
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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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