“The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.”   Oh, that we would hear the power of these words today.

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Why don’t we try Hayek when, after 70+ years, it is clear that Keynes ideas don’t fulfill the promise?   This was a question from one of my students after the class had investigated the economic systems of the two great 20th Century economists: John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek.  The class had spent…

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I was listening to NPR the other day.  They had a story about a company in California who will bring a fake crowd of people to your event.  While the reporter for NPR seemed genuinely intrigued by the company, all I could think was “this is how far we have sunk.”   Instead of hearing…

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