In my latest National Post column I ask why everybody including the Tories is running against the Tories.
“The economic problem is not one of allocating resources efficiently when everything is known and constant, but of learning how to allocate and reallocate resources in an uncertain and changing world.”
Dominick T. Armentano, Antitrust Policy: The Case for Repeal
“Saul Gorn once told me his theory of asceticism: ‘It is well known that the longer one postpones a pleasure, the greater the pleasure is when one finally gets it. Therefore, if one postpones it for ever, the pleasure should be infinite.'”
Raymond Smullyan 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
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In my latest National Post column I say Banksy bagging $16 million for a “subversive” painting of the British parliament as a bunch of chimpanzees shows the debased state of our culture that helps explain the debased state of our politics.
“that scarce resource Love.”
Dennis Robertson, urging economists to find ways to minimize the demands public policy places on altruism, quoted in James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?