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The Vienna School of Schumpeter and von Mises was corrrect that the profit motive of market capitalism provides a powerful incentive for technological change: invention, innovation, adoptioin, and diffusion, that command socialism lacks. However, Shumpeter split with von Mises in recognizing that government can play a postive role in ...
Well, as a co-blogger here for nearly two years, I thought I should put in a separate posting on the closing down of Maxspeak as such and the departure of Max himself. I hope that whatever succeeds this with some additional folks will be worthy and reasonably widely read. ...
Just to show you we ain't dead yet.
Read your blogs, kids, cause children in China are starving for unconstrained commentary. If that's not bad enough, Microsoft and Yahoo are enabling the government's repression. So we have ...
My last contribution to EPI's snapshot feature, here.
The main problem with the Republican Party: it's just too gay.
Ted Nugent holds up a machine gun in concert, says Barack Obama can 'suck on it.' Observers are shocked to learn that Ted Nugent is still holding concerts. (Stolen from Bill Maher.)
The top story on the front page of the Washington Post today by Blaine Harden and Thomas Ricks is entitled, "Report Finds Little Progress on Iraq Goals: GAO Draft at Odds with White House." The GAO is the Government Accountability Office, and its report is being given to Congress ...
My solution for Federal Reserve policy, make Jamie Galbraith The King of Money.
Best sentence today, from Henry Farrell, on Alan Wolfe: "Not that he's a D'Souza, or anything like him, but he is Gertrude Stein's Oakland in human form, a sort of Lowest Common Denominator of liberal ...
by the Sandwichman,
It was a little over five years ago that the Sandwichman met Max in the flesh at the Vancouver airport as he was stopping over on a flight to Tokyo. The same day, July 22, 2002, my official tenure as guest blogger on Max's two-and-half month old MaxSpeak, ...
The Entitlements Myth (quoted verbatim in its entirety, w/o comment. -- mbs)
Monday, December 13, 1993, The Washington Post, p. A20.
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that entitlements are the great federal budget problem. Once created, they only grow; they're never cut. Thirty years ago they accounted for a fourth of the budget ...
This is it folks. I seem to be speechless. Must be I haven't had breakfast yet.
My email max -- at --- maxERASETHISspeakDOTERASEMOREorg will still work. For those interested, send me an email and I'll inform you of any momentous developments in my world. I ...