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Does the Energy Sector want to do to the Environment as the Banking Industry did to the Economy?

Why, then, are Republicans pretending otherwise? Part of the answer is that the party is rewarding its benefactors: the oil and gas industry doesn’t create many jobs, but it does spend a lot of money on lobbying and campaign contributions. … Continue reading

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Leipzig Book Fair

There’s a lot of ACTA talk at the Leipzig Book Fair — if you have some answers to my questions, then please let me know! Linked In News Post Forum

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There is a reality that haunts the United States of America today — the reality of economic planning

If you’re not too big to fail, then you’re probably too small to matter: the existence of important agglomeration economies immediately implies that there are social consequences to the success or failure of an individual firm that aren’t captured by … Continue reading

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Why do some dogs have short tails and other dogs have long tails?

According to Mark Pagel, the answer must be that the length of one dog’s tail versus the length another dog’s tail is not a “functionally equivalent trait”. But the much more important question I have for Mark Pagel is: How … Continue reading

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The difference between New World 1.0 and New World 2.0

Following up on the signs of the times, I want to now explain some significant differences between the “real” New World and the “virtual” New World. In order to simplify this exercise, I will not take such a broad view … Continue reading

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The distinction between paid content and free content has ALWAYS been bogus

Producing content has always cost something. Whether it was paid in cash or whether the costs to produce content were covered in some other way (that does not involve money) is not the issue. The issue is that today when … Continue reading

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Irrational denotations off the deep end

Whenever I read something David Brooks has written, I always regret it. It leaves me with something worse than a stale aftertaste… — I feel like I have to take a shower or something. So when Paul Krugman mentioned in … Continue reading

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Cory Doctorow is able to make reading news about the behavior of illiterate people entertaining

For example: The [aforementioned] rule of thumb works for cars, for houses, and for every other substantial area of technological regulation. Not realizing that it fails for the Internet does not make you evil, and it does not make you … Continue reading

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Not so fast!

If it takes 7 years for an idea to emerge via social media (did “social media” even exist as a concept 7 years ago?), then that is — in my opinion — quite slow. One reason why it might be … Continue reading

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Latest Breaking News: People are increasingly becoming disenchanted with bogus values

Paul Krugman asks: “Could it be that traditional families aren’t as crucial to social cohesion as advertised?“ His conclusions are insightful, but I feel they are not exactly on the money. He concedes that social cohesion might have something to … Continue reading

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