Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Culture and Economic Development by Lawrence E. Harrison

Culture and Economic Development by Lawrence E. Harrison

Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital, and the End of Multiculturalism by Lawrence E. Harrison

Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital, and the End of Multiculturalism by Lawrence E. Harrison

Principles of Sociology/Moral Maps, First World Conceits, and the New Evangelists by Richard Shweder

Principles of Sociology/Moral Maps, First World Conceits, and the New Evangelists by Richard Shweder

Typology of Progress-Prone and Progress-Resistant Cultures by Mariano Grondona, et al

Typology of Progress-Prone and Progress-Resistant Cultures by Mariano Grondona, et al

Dead Green Treaty Stinks Up The Room by Walter Russell Mead

Dead Green Treaty Stinks Up The Room by Walter Russell Mead

You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake by Debra Saunders

You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake by Debra Saunders

Monday, November 29, 2010

Things Fall Apart by Walter Russell Mead

Things Fall Apart by Walter Russell Mead

Equality of Capacity by Amartya Sen

Equality of Capacity by Amartya Sen

More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing by Amartya Sen

More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing by Amartya Sen
Arrow's impossibility theorem from Wikipedia

A’s for Good Behavior by Peg Tyre

A’s for Good Behavior by Peg Tyre

We Give Books Poll on Reading and Giving from the Pearsons Foundation

We Give Books Poll on Reading and Giving from the Pearsons Foundation

The Influence of Nonfiction on Attitudes, Values, and Behaviors by Mary Beth Culp and Jamee Osborn Sosa

The Influence of Nonfiction on Attitudes, Values, and Behaviors by Mary Beth Culp and Jamee Osborn Sosa

The Influence of Reading on Concepts, Attitudes, and Behaviors by Fehl L. Shirley

The Influence of Reading on Concepts, Attitudes, and Behaviors by Fehl L. Shirley

The Influence of Reading Purpose on Inference Generation and Comprehension in Reading by Darcia Narvaez and Paul van den Broek

The Influence of Reading Purpose on Inference Generation and Comprehension in Reading by Darcia Narvaez and Paul van den Broek

The influence of reading from The Economist

The influence of reading from The Economist

Thinking About Second & Third Order Effects: A Sample (And Simple) Methodology by Michael G. Miller

Thinking About Second & Third Order Effects: A Sample (And Simple) Methodology by Michael G. Miller

Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Some Conjectures about the Impact of Printing on Western Society and Thought by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action by Robert K. Merton

The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action by Robert K. Merton

Inexcusable Unintended Consequences by Gary Galles

Inexcusable Unintended Consequences by Gary Galles

What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat

What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen by Frederic Bastiat

Federal Income Tax Rates and Total Revenues by Randall Hoven

Federal Income Tax Rates and Total Revenues by Randall Hoven

The Tax and Revenue Equation by W. Kurt Hauser

The Tax and Revenue Equation by W. Kurt Hauser

There's No Escaping Hauser's Law by W. Kurt Hauser

There's No Escaping Hauser's Law by W. Kurt Hauser

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Entrepreneurial Behavior: New Perspectives gained through the Critical Incident Technique by Sharda Nandram and Karel Samsom

Entrepreneurial Behavior: New Perspectives gained through the Critical Incident Technique by Sharda Nandram and Karel Samsom

Biology and Society--1820, 1998, and Beyond by Christopher DeMuth

Biology and Society--1820, 1998, and Beyond by Christopher DeMuth

Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences by Christopher DeMuth

Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences by Christopher DeMuth

Students are supposed to read books, not burn them by Brendan O’Neill

Students are supposed to read books, not burn them by Brendan O’Neill

Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains by John Bickle and Sean Keating

Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains by John Bickle and Sean Keating

Story Resolution

Story Resolution

Good motives can produce bad results by Jay Ambrose

Good motives can produce bad results by Jay Ambrose

The Pikes Peak Economics Club

The Pikes Peak Economics Club

When “I Can” Becomes “You Must” by Jimmie Bise, Jr.

When “I Can” Becomes “You Must” by Jimmie Bise, Jr.

Our puritanical progressives by George F. Will

Our puritanical progressives by George F. Will

Okay, Fine, The Economy Is Getting Better -- But Not Much by John Mauldin

Okay, Fine, The Economy Is Getting Better -- But Not Much by John Mauldin

Saturday, November 27, 2010

The Best of All Worlds: Globalizing the Knowledge Economy by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

The Best of All Worlds: Globalizing the Knowledge Economy by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Racing to the Top: How Global Competition Disciplines Public Policy by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Racing to the Top: How Global Competition Disciplines Public Policy by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

What D'ya Know?: Lifetime Learning in Pursuit of the American Dream by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

What D'ya Know?: Lifetime Learning in Pursuit of the American Dream by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Time Well Spent The Declining Real Cost of Living in America by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Time Well Spent The Declining Real Cost of Living in America by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Some Unpleasant Growth Arithmetic? by W. Michael Cox

Some Unpleasant Growth Arithmetic? by W. Michael Cox

By Our Own Bootstraps by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

By Our Own Bootstraps by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

The Service Sector: Give it Some Respect by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

The Service Sector: Give it Some Respect by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frederic Bastiat

Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frederic Bastiat

Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat

Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat

The Churn: The Paradox of Progress by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

The Churn: The Paradox of Progress by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

You Are What You Spend by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

You Are What You Spend by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

How Are We Doing? by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

How Are We Doing? by W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm

Southern 'Poverty' Law Center's Cayman Island's Bank Account from the Petrelis Files

Southern 'Poverty' Law Center's Cayman Island's Bank Account from the Petrelis Files

Iceland elects ordinary folk to draft constitution from Associated Press

Iceland elects ordinary folk to draft constitution from Associated Press

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Mencken: America's Critic by Jennie Rothenberg

Mencken: America's Critic by Jennie Rothenberg

Newspaper Morals by H.L. Mencken

Newspaper Morals by H.L. Mencken

The Decline of Grammar by Geoffrey Nunberg

The Decline of Grammar by Geoffrey Nunberg

Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun, Rhetoric - What it is; Why Needed

Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun, Rhetoric - What it is; Why Needed pgs 1-8

Peace, Love and Puritanism by David H. Hall

Peace, Love and Puritanism by David H. Hall

Government By Waiver: The Breakdown Of Public Administration by Richard Epstein

Government By Waiver: The Breakdown Of Public Administration by Richard Epstein

Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children, will they grow up to be unbearable? by Katie Roiphe

Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children, will they grow up to be unbearable? by Katie Roiphe