Calculation and Knowledge

My post of January 7 on this blog showed how The New York Times promotes the Green

This article by Mark Skousen makes the preposterous claim that Mises and Hayek &#8

The issue of whether non-scarce things like thoughts or labor are ownable has arisen in recent debates—see, e.g.,

And they had all decided, left, right, and center, that there was not a thing economically wrong with socialism: that socialism's only problems, such as they might be, were political. Economically, socialism could work just as well as capitalism.

Much ink has been expended in discussions of the US yield curve and also on the reluctance of the country’s lower money aggregates to grow as

Greg Mankiw reports on

I’m sure most readers of this blog are familiar with Julian Simon’s

For anyone interested, the full version of the article which includes thoughts on the role of the yield curve — updated to take account of the feed

From The New York Times of September 21:

Free-market capitalism allows for a degree of coordination that no other system can match. Those who hold capitalism to a standard of perfection ignore the fact that activist governments have failed to attain anything better, and have often made matters worse.