In my latest Loonie Politics column I say making Steven Guilbeault environment minister was a bad idea everyone should have seen coming.
In my latest National Post column I say thinking you’ll win the drug war by eliminating one major dealer is like thinking you’ll get people to stop eating by closing their current grocery store.
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why the “most important” election “since 1945 and certainly in our lifetimes” didn’t feature any useful discussion of causing inflation by printing money instead of creating wealth.
“A key tenet of standard economics is that making people happy is a simple matter of giving them more of what they like. But neuroscience shows that’s not true. The brain’s striatum quickly gets used to new stimuli and expects them to continue. People are on a treadmill in which only unexpected pleasures can make them happier. That explains why happiness of people in rich countries hasn’t increased despite higher living standards.”
Peter Coy in BusinessWeek, quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail April 4, 2005
In my latest National Post column, I warn that reflexively scoffing at the rubes who don’t like sending their money to Quebec and think they can stop it would be disastrous.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the inflation currently breaking out because we printed too much money and produced too little wealth is a classic case of Hemingway’s line about going broke two ways.
In my latest National Post column I say major problems with British socialized medicine would offer important lessons for Canada if we could just get over our fixation with our health system being above reproach. If you agree, please join us for the EEA’s “Freedom School” on “Meeting the Healthcare Challenge” on Oct. 22 and 23.
“If persons do not behave in accordance with their own economic self-interest, objectively defined and measured, on what basis do they act?... The economist is well-equipped to recognize mush for what it is, and when noneconomists hypothesize that persons want to ‘do good,’ he quickly detects the absence of predictive content.”
“Is Constitutional Revolution Possible in Democracy?” in Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy