Law Roundtable

The map of the College is now up. Not nearly as nice as the map for Harald, which was done for me by a generous professional, but at least it shows where everything is.

The central planning fallacy is the plausible, but mistaken, idea that if only all the resources of a society were under the control of some sensible person, wonderful things could be done. It is mistaken for at least three reasons:

I originally mentioned the economic element in Salamander, but one commenter asked about the relation of the magic to physics.
Part of what I was doing in the book was trying ...

Having received a gratifyingly positive response to my previous post, I thought I would say a little more about  my first novel, then do another post on my second. 
There are a couple of places in Harald where I mention tactics my protagonist is ...

A correspondent points me at a blog post with the intriguing title "Sci-fi needs economists." Neither of my novels is science fiction, but both of them are speculative fiction—sf, of which sci-fi is a subset. And both of them reflect, in varying ways, the fact that they ...

Reductions in the cost of genetic testing and improvements in what we know about what it tells us produce obvious benefits; if you know you are  likely to have some particular medical problem, you may be able to take precautions against it. But they also have at least ...

He is currently divorced from his second wife, who is still alive, and married to his third. He also a Catholic convert. The Catholic church, as I understand its doctrine, does not accept divorce. Unless he somehow obtained an annulment, doesn't that make his current marriage adultery?

Last time around, when it was effectively down to three, I concluded somewhat tentatively that it was Obama. He seemed a little less bad than Hilary Clinton and had one big advantage over McCain—when Obama did bad things, we, people who supported free markets, wouldn't get blamed ...

Various news stories have reported that Newt Gingrich asked his second wife for an open marriage. So far as I can tell, it isn't quite true:

Marianne Gingrich, in her first television interview since the couple's 1999 divorce, told ABC News ...

In a recent post, I discussed Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, a very interesting book. Part of its point is that much, arguably most, of our thinking is done by a part of our mind that functions, invisibly and automatically, in the background, the part that ...