In my latest National Post column I say the obvious reason Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole are facing party revolts and ugly polling numbers is that they have abandoned conservatism for opportunism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the failure of the latest giant trendy COP 26 climate conference evidence of what happens when people who don’t grasp the existence of practical difficulties run into them anyway.
“For the economist who drops homo economicus in favor of an open-ended utility function, no failure can be recognized. He cannot identify market failure, but neither can he identify government or political failure.”
James Buchanan, What Should Economists Do?
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the only thing more foolish than Doug Ford raising the minimum wage was his explanation for doing so.
In my latest National Post column I say the self-satisfied tone at the latest global warming alarmist confab in chilly Glasgow is a sign of how detached they are from economic as well as scientific reality.
“It is only the fetish of some economists (e.g., Hirshleifer, 1985) that rejects the idea that one person’s self-interest cannot include the welfare of others.”
W.T. Stanbury in Walter Block and George Lerner, eds., Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry
“The haves and the have-nots can be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.”
D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”
“Someone once defined ‘committee’ as a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”
A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine December 1990