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Crooked Timber: A Monster In Paris
Man does not live by long Hayek posts alone! Take this TLS piece on Frankenstein (via Andrew Sullivan). I love this stuff. I haven’t read the books being reviewed, but differences between the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein are a hobbyhorse o...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:16pm -07:00T (615 words)
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Crooked Timber: O upright judge! Is Hayek Like Nietzsche or not?
I’m a bit late, responding to Corey’s ‘Nietzsche’s Marginal Children’ essay (and post). But here goes. In this post I will say what I think is right about Corey’s basic thesis. We can then – if you like – ar...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 8:46pm -07:00T (5333 words)
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Crooked Timber: Good (and bad) news from the Open Access front
I recently wrote a short ‘comment’ for the American Journal of Bioethics. The piece is 1788 words long, the names and affiliations of my co-author and myself included. So that will make for 3, perhaps 4 printed pages, right? Now, Taylor and Fr...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31am -07:00T (444 words)
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Crooked Timber: Marianne Ferber died
Marianne Ferber died a few days ago, at age 90. Ferber was one of the founding feminist economists. There is a nice Obit by Frances Woolley here. I remember Marianne from the IAFFE conferences that I visited as a grad student. One of the most striking mem...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16am -07:00T (199 words)
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Crooked Timber: Some Scattered Points Circling About In Search Of An Argument
Throat-clearing:1.Never respond to reviews, they tell you, in the fiction-writing community, or at least my little part of it. This is probably good prudential advice, but also in its way quite satisfying; self-effacing and self-aggrandizing at once, in a...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 3:31am -07:00T (3144 words)
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Crooked Timber: Nietszche and the Marginalists
A kind of coda and suggestion for future work regarding Corey’s essay on the links between Nietszchian thought and modern economics. In one respect, I’d ask whether there may be stronger connections than Corey suggests. In particular, I can...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 1:31pm -07:00T (940 words)
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Crooked Timber: Do not name these things
MMash-ups are everywhere these days: zombies keep finding their way into historical novels, and softcore porn into Jane Eyre. Making genres and modes collide is hardly a new thing; what is Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, after al...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 8:31am -07:00T (1245 words)
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Crooked Timber: Meanwhile, in Jasper City…
In The Rise of Ransom City, Felix Gilman attempts a couple of tricks one really shouldn’t try at home. First, he shows rather than tells how history is made by economics, politics and changes in popular belief, not the bravery of heroes. Second, he ...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 7:31am -07:00T (1049 words)
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Crooked Timber: Utopophobophilia
This is, in a silly way, a footnote to my previous Kevin Williamson post, but, more seriously, to my contribution to our Erik Olin Wright event. In my post on Wright I remarked that, in a sense, he’s pushing against an open door: he wants Americans,...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 2:31am -07:00T (1688 words)
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Crooked Timber: The arithmetic of interstellar travel
There’s been a lot of excitement about the discovery of two Earth-like[^1] planets, a mere 1200 light years away. Pretty soon, I guess, we’ll be thinking about sending colonists. So, I thought it might be worthwhile to a little bit of arithmet...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 4:31am -07:00T (351 words)
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Crooked Timber: You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase”
I like the Los Angeles Review of Books quite a lot. I’ve given them real, actual money. But this article on Marx and public choice theory is, to put it plainly, shit. Below the fold, a lengthy and repetitive diatribe, which I’m posting less be...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 4:31pm -07:00T (1295 words)
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Crooked Timber: Ronald Reagan: EfraÃn RÃos Montt is “totally dedicated to democracy”
So much of the discourse around the US and genocide focuses on the sin of omission, the failure of the US to prevent or stop genocide elsewhere. Now that former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been found guilty of genocide and sentenced to 80 ye...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 6:01pm -07:00T (331 words)
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Crooked Timber: Stories Behind Stories
The Half-Made World and The Rise of Ransom City are tricky creatures. They object to being categorized. However much you might want to fix them to the corkboard (with a neatly typed label beneath, identifying species, and date and place of capture) they&#...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 2:31am -07:00T (2063 words)
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Crooked Timber: Minority Outreach Report
I know, I know, it’s just another of those ‘How many of you know that Saruman used to walk in the forest, a friend of the trees!’ posts by Kevin Williamson. (See also: Rand Paul at Howard.) But it’s the comments that get me, and ma...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 1:16am -07:00T (475 words)
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Crooked Timber: The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism
“Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche.” So said Clarence Darrow at the trial of Leopold and Loeb, the two University of Chicago law students who had murdered young Bobby Franks for no other reason than to prove that they w...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 8:31am -07:00T (1443 words)
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