Mark Zuckerberg wrote a 6,000-word manifesto on the history of humanity and how Facebook will shape humanity’s future. Zuckerberg’s manifesto has been subjected to a large backlash among the intelligentsia of the internet, and although it has problems, I’m glad he…
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…
Vox posted a series of interviews with Marc Andreessen in which the billionaire co-founder of Netscape seems to feel that most of the economy outside of silicon valley is simply backwards. …you have the sectors in which prices are rapidly…
For centuries, markets have been expanding into ever greater spheres of human life and displacing non-market human interaction. This has been an exciting time for economists because economists mostly just study markets. This has led economists to neglect major spheres of…
Yesterday I noticed that one of my colleagues, Dr. George Lehman, will be giving a presentation entitled, “Having it both ways: Costa Rica as an alternative to the capitalism-socialism debate.” George always gives interesting presentations and whereas I’ll probably agree…
Via Sarah Kliff, I see that a new research paper found that schools giving out free condoms had a 10 percent increase in teen births. This is contrary to the past studies I have seen which show that free birth control led to fewer pregnancies…
It is human to anthropomorphize. We like to personify holidays into heroic figures like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and personify companies as Ronald McDonald or the Michelin Man. The flourishing of art and culture of entire eras is…
