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Davidson on rent control as “perverse” 1 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
A good journalistic piece in The New York Times: “The Perverse Effects of Rent Regulation.” (Thanks to R.M. for the link.) Rent control is a classic case of bad economics and bad ethics. The bad econ...
Portuguese translation of Explaining Postmodernism in e-book 31 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
The Portuguese translation, published by Callis in São Paulo, Brazil is now also available in e-book via Barnes and Noble. More information about other editions and translations of Explaining Postmod...
Tennessee Williams on the death penalty 30 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
This post lists 71 interesting facts about Tennessee Williams, in honor of the 71 years of his life. Item 19 is: “I don’t believe in individual guilt. I don’t think people are responsible for what th...
Newton N. Minow Way in Chicago 29 Jul 2013 | 08:25 pm
Walking to the train station, I photographed this street sign in Chicago: I was reminded of Rand’s caustic remarks exactly 50 years ago about Minow and government censorship: “And then there is Newt...
Chekhov’s artistic choices 27 Jul 2013 | 06:33 pm
Anton Chekhov is a great writer, in large part because he follows ruthlessly a principle of selectivity named after him: “Chekhov’s gun” is principle of writing that says that every element in a narra...
Safety in the workplace — encouraging statistics 26 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
According to numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics late in 2012, workplace injuries continue to decline: * The injury rate for workers in the private sector has fallen to “3.5 cases per ...
Lessons from the Bhopal chemical-spill disaster 15 Jul 2013 | 02:38 am
The 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, is one of the major business ethics cases of the past generation. A hazardous chemical was spilled and, tragically, many people died. Awful. But I am weary of read...
Kaizen 26 — The Larry Abrams Interview 9 Jul 2013 | 10:27 pm
Entrepreneurial Investing The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Larry Abrams. We met in Houston, Texas, to discuss his wide-ranging investments in bio-tech, energy, his first no...
Haruki Murakami on standard education and Russian novelists 7 Jul 2013 | 07:04 am
I’m reading Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. A character comments: “Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of drawing it out, isn’t it? But...
Philosopher Paul Kidder on Rand 6 Jul 2013 | 08:28 am
Professor Paul Kidder published a short article entitled “The Simplistic Flaw in Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: A philosophy professor dissects the faulty logic in the libertarians’ favorite deep-thinker.” Ki...
