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        How rational is the rational animal? In a column entitled “Vudu Lives (Outside the Box),” David Pogue, the engaging technology reviewer for The New York Times , inquires about some apparently perplexing failings of human nature.      We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. But if that’s true, why do we eat stuff we know isn’t

[On October 27, as East Coast residents prepared for Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie threatened “price gougers” with stiff penalties. As David Brown pointed out in Mises Daily on August 17, 2004, shortly after Hurricane Charley hit Florida, foul weather is when we need market prices the most. Capitalism needs more foul-weather