Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts

Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Invisible Hand of the Free Market Is Really a Form of Witchcraft

What else to conclude from a recent story out of Romania, describing opposition to a proposed new tax by witches and fortune tellers?

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Today's Captive Minds?

Tony Judt of The New York Review of Books, on the continuing relevance of Czeslaw Milosz. All goes well until Judt lurches into an odd comparison between today's regnant capitalists and communism's Kool-Aid drinkers. Well - someone has an axe to grind.