The Skeptical Liberal

How can we live together in peace, prosperity, and harmony, while retaining our liberties as autonomous individuals who can, and must, create our own values? -- J.M. Buchanan

5/05/2010

God and Professor Adler and Logic (Tagxedo)

In 1940, Frank Knight wrote a response to Mortimer Adler's "God and the Professors" (in which Adler charged that secular profe...

4/12/2008

Inventors Day success

See story about the Inventors Day that students in my "Michigan Futures in the Global Economy" applied public policy seminar ran o...

2/07/2008

Complexity and Economics video lesson

A great two-part lecture on basic concepts in social economic organization, reminiscent of Knight's The Economic Organization , but inco...

12/06/2007

Response to "High taxes can spur growth??"

Igor Vojnovic has provided an extended response to my criticism of his article: "Battling the rhetoric that broke Michigan’s competitiv...

11/18/2007

High taxes can spur growth??

The headline caught my attention: “MSU researcher says high taxes can spur growth.” The source —MSU’s bulletin of events and news—went on to...

9/19/2007

The Chicago School 2: Mainly Milton Friedman

Second session of "Revisiting the Chicago School," Notre Dame, September 14-15, 2007. The first presentation in this session was b...

9/17/2007

The Chicago School of Economics 1: Roundtable on John Van Overtveldt’s book

I promised yesterday to begin posting blogs on the sessions of the " Revisiting the Chicago School [of Economics]" Conference hel...

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