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Quotation of the Day…
… is from page 291 of the 1965 paperback edition of Jim Buchanan’s and Gordon Tullock’s justly celebrated 1962 classic, The Calculus of Consent; it’s especially germane to any discussions that take place today regarding Europe X



Greece, brinkmanship and the euro, again
A few months ago, Jacob Kirkegaard was congratulating the EU’s northern member states for having discovered how awesome brinkmanship was as a mode of bargaining over Greek policy reforms. As I noted then, brinkmanship, contra Kirkegaard, is a t X



TED's 'Explicitely Partisan' Talk, Briefly Barred From Its Site, Now Everywhere
A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too "explicitly partisan." X



It took 3 1/2 years, but I think they’ve finally got it
Britmouse recently linked to some comments by David Cameron: Getting our debt under control is necessary for growth. But it’s not sufficient. Our responsible fiscal policy is being matched by active monetary policy. That’s the best way to suppor X



Wow, it’s been 5 years.
Five years of blogging. Still interested in the brain, but I’ve expanded, not uncommon when given the freedom to follow ideas wherever they lead. Some months I am prolific, other months rather quiet. For awhile there were some wonderful folks w X



What’s Really Going On (Inspired by Mark Perry)
Here’s a letter to the Washington Post; (the report’s printed headline differs somewhat from the on-line headline): Your page A22 headline today that reads “Trade complaint results in stiff tariffs on Chinese solar panels” is X



Letters: Donna Summer And Joe Ricketts
Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about Donna Summer and conservative donor Joe Ricketts. X



JP Morgan Chase is biggest campaign contributor to the senator who’s chairing the investigation of JP Morgan Chase
Oops. I do remember that line from the First Amendment, though: Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of rich guys to fund campaigns . . . OK, not really. But there’s something about it in the Fourteenth Amendment, I’m su X



Week In Politics: Capitalism Versus Democracy
Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss the race between President Obama and presumptive Republ X



Isolated State Capitals Are More Corrupt
So concludes a new paper by Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do: We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the case when we use the variation induced by the X





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