Kevin Drum wrote that NAFTA isn’t a big deal and produced a graph similar to the one below except that he used an inflated measure of trade: gross imports plus exports. Net exports (NX) is a better measure of the…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Mass-shooter drills train students to become future mass shooters.
mass shootings in schools are a form of epidemic and if the bug can be caught from exposure to press reports about mass shooters it can probably be caught from participation in mass shooter drills too.
Posted in Violence & Peace
We Pencils
Introduction: This essay is guest authored by a group of pencils. Yes, we are a bunch of ordinary writing instruments. Even though any one of us is very dumb, even a group of idiots can produce something much greater than the…
Mmutilitarianism: The accidental ethical foundation of economics and business.
Everyone has some sort of moral philosophy whether they realize it or not. The three major schools of ethics are deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. Deontology is an ethical system based on legalistic rules that impose a duty on everyone’s…
Posted in Medianism, Public Finance
Medianism 