Is this the free market?
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Let’s say I’ve been getting bullied at school. I’ve had enough of him one day, so I say to him: “You are annoying me, so tomorrow I’m going to fight you after school.” He responds, “But you are implicitly agreeing to the NAP right now, you can’t argue for fighting me without contradicting yourself.” I respond, “I do agree to the NAP at this moment, but soon, I won’t agree. Just because I agree now by arguing doesn’t […]
Does an individual’s socio-economic background affect their likelihood of success in academia or their field of study? It certainly might. A new study, “Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia,” by Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Pérez, Joseph Price, Carlo Schwarz, and Fabian Waldinger, casts some light on this subject. Here’s the abstract: We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics’ backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poorer backgrounds have been severely underrepresented for […]
The Napa County, California, Board of Supervisors has banned single-use plastic bags and utensils. Restaurants will have to provide dine-in customers with reusable utensils and carry-out customers with utensils and bags made from natural fibers that are certified compostable. Grocery stores, farmers markets, and others venues that serve carry-out food must also provide compostable bags. The law also requires businesses to charge customers 25 cents per bag, but customers paying with low-income welfare programs like EBT and WIC […]
Chief Justice Roberts’s 2024 year-end report warned that “elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings.” When I read that claim, I had no idea who the Chief was referring to. I know that critics have talked about jurisdiction stripping, court expansion, term limits, and so on, but open defiance? Who has proposed that? Ruth Marcus has a theory. She writes that Roberts was taking a swipe at […]
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Why is Elon Musk wanting to make more, not less policy in focusing exclusively on a specific type of immigrant. This seems like a Keynesian approach. Wouldn’t free market folks say, this influx of people who has been displaced for whatever reason shouldn’t be categorized? This is what the market is providing us (a surplus, so let’s use that surplus to reduce inflation). Even if he is looking exclusively at his own industry in information technology, and saying […]
Looking to educate myself on the Austrian school of economics. What would be your top book recommendations to get started? submitted by /u/PlanNo3321 [link] [comments]