Only Against Illegal Immigration?
Oct 07Guest Blog by Jennifer McKitrick There’s something fishy about some anti-immigration arguments. They say “We’re not against immigration, we’re against illegal immigration.” OK, so the problem with immigrants is that they broke some laws. But are they good laws? If yes, they’re for laws designed to keep immigrants out, so they are against immigration. If [...]
Getting Negative About Positive Economics
Oct 07[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] My QJAE article “Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman,” an Austro-Athenian critique of the late Milton Friedman’s 1953 essay “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” is now finally available online. (An early draft has been online for a while, but is now superseded by this final version.) [...]
Ice Ice Baby
Oct 07Galactica fans: as mentioned previously, a series of out-takes from Razor, next month’s BSG event (they’ll be included on the DVD but not in the televised version), are being made available, one per week I guess, on the BSG website. The first one is now up; go to this page and click “watch flashbacks.” (You [...]
Strange Announcements
Oct 07Our campus mail service recently announced, with no trace of irony, that any outgoing mail with an inadequate return address would be returned to the sender. Oh well, I’ve seen worse. In my North Carolina days I lived in an apartment complex whose management used to issue notices like “February 12th is cancelled until further [...]
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