Patri Friedman: Producing legislation without using economics is like typing at a terminal with no screen. Something is going to happen, but it may not be at all what you wanted. This is an especially bad idea when, like Congress, you have root access.
Don Boudreaux penned a short list of economists he think should have won the nobel prize if they had been alive during its tenure.
The Misanthropic Bitch: “Never forget” is more empty jingoism (“Let’s roll; Support the troops”) meant to invoke a sense of outrage and moral superiority in Americans. We’re better than them because we honor our politically convenient dead again and again and again — to the point that, three years later, we demand “proper burial” for microscopic dust that may or may not contain what passes for human remains.
Via Jonathan Dingel and Clay Shonkwiler.