Tag Archives: economics
Exploitation
Has anyone else ever noticed that when young, ignorant, privileged white UMC girls start going on about the “terrible exploitation” faced by people who are actively trying to better their economic circumstances, the desired result always seems to be cutting … Continue reading
Transience and government
Reading Sarah Hoyt’s posts on government and Taking Over The GOP With Sane Americans got me thinking about local government, and particularly the way representative government for localities just doesn’t seem to work all that well in areas with high … Continue reading
Digital Gaming: two cents
Ctrl-Alt-Del is one of the online comics on my RSS feed, though if you’ve been following along you’ll know I’m not much of a gamer myself. But I do have two cents about the digital streaming services. It is that … Continue reading
Poverty
Stacy McCain is directing people to read a long piece in NRO – a genuine example of investigative journalism, no less! I’m going to be highlighting different aspects of the issues than Stacy does, so I’d recommend reading both. First … Continue reading
Leave Them Alone
I’m pretty much convinced by articles discussing philanthropy that the #1 best thing anyone can do for “poor” communities is to LEAVE. THEM. ALONE. There is nothing wrong with Africa that a magical force-field separating the continent from the rest … Continue reading
Inequality at the Top
Via Insty, I stumbled across this article in the New Atlantic, written by a guy who sees that there is some kind of systemic problem in which wealth is disproportionately concentrating in the hands of the top earners in America. … Continue reading
The problem of funding
Tom over on Fat Head links part 2 of an Australian TV series on dietary health, discussing statins and the inherent corruption of current medical incentives. Leaving aside the question of statins in particular, I’d like to focus on how … Continue reading
Forbes: Your Help is Hurting
An Insty link caught my eye: “How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse” The phenomenon described in the article (apparently to be the first of a series analyzing various types of charity and their results) is one I’m familiar … Continue reading
Why replacing the income tax with sales tax won’t work
One of the things proponents of a fair tax code (as opposed to the current labyrintine tax code filled with special exemptions and loopholes for favored groups and social policy manipulations) suggest is that an alternative means for extracting citizens’ … Continue reading
Something Fishy 
Industrialization
Walter Russel Mead has an article about the political goings-on in India (an area of interest to me mainly because I have family over there) and while I found his article fascinating, one assertion of his puzzles me. India must … Continue reading →