Susan Stern doesn't understand that labor is an exchange 6 Mar 2011 | 10:15 pm

Susan Stern made several analytically false statements. In this post I will not bother addressing any empirical data, as Stern’s arguments can be shown to be false internally. She writes:

Private Property and the Ground Zero Mosque 25 Aug 2010 | 05:09 am

I was watching a video on the anti-mosque rally on youtube, and I was surprised to see people in the comment section invoking “private property rights” to defend the mosque.

Emergence and Capitalists 24 Aug 2010 | 05:55 am

I was playing a strategy game, and I always find myself having trouble when I'm immediately placed in charge of a large army. In the game I was playing, it was a highly abstract, high-level strategy g...

Where did the Skepticism Go? 5 Aug 2010 | 01:38 pm

I'm kicking myself that I didn't see this earlier, but I was just sitting and thinking about lobbyists lobbying for controls, and thought about the incentives of "good controllers" and "bad controller...

"Greed" Doesn't Explain Anything 27 Jul 2010 | 02:09 pm

People are greedy, all are. Some value money, some value reputation, and they do what they believe needs to be done to get what they want.

Jonathan Hiskes Makes a Simple Error(s) on the Oil Spill 17 Jun 2010 | 05:06 pm

Response to:

The Free Will of British Petroleum 13 Jun 2010 | 01:48 pm

Something problematic about this BP stuff is how people assume firms are independent actors or that companies behave in some non-deterministic fashion.BP is a firm. A firm exists to earn profit. BP wi...

Terence Kealey - 'The Myth of Science as a Public Good' 23 Apr 2010 | 01:30 pm

...not only is government funding not beneficial, but in fact measurably obstructs scientific progress, whilst presenting an alternative, methodologically-individualist understanding of 'invisible col...

Cultural Relativism is Like Aids 23 Apr 2010 | 08:33 am

When talking to a muslim he brought up that islam is the fastest growing religion. I responded that it is in there with Aids and Sickle-Cell anemia.

The Constitution 3 Apr 2010 | 09:04 am