October 2, 2009 – 3:06 am
When I lived in England a friend introduced me to this great show, “Yes, Prime Minister.” This was one of the great segments.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a great podcast with Russ Roberts of Econtalk. I am posting the link to the most recent one as well as another one from 2007 that is worth listening to.
Taleb on the Financial Crisis 2009 Podcast
Taleb on Black Swans 2007 Podcast
And if you would like more, here is Taleb’s homepage and [...]
For those (especially libertarians) who have not seen the Australian satirical comedy The Hollowmen, you are missing out. These clips will hopefully entice you to watch more. I imagine they are not far off from what goes on in Canberra, DC, London or anywhere else. The remarks about the obesity problem being a good thing [...]
After listening to Peter Schiff at the Austrian Scholars Conference for an hour and a half, did I listen to his lengthy Google presentation? Absolutely.
From the LRC blog comes this great clip from The Americanization of Emily. Are there movies like this nowadays?
April 17, 2009 – 11:29 pm
1985
This comment by Richard Ebeling is taken from the Mises blog:
I had the good fortune in the 1970s to twice have summer research fellowships at the Institute for Humane Studies when IHS headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
For most of those two summers F.A. Hayek was also at IHS as a senior fellow, and it gave [...]
Peter is asked if this is an Adam Smith argument; he says it’s a free-market, Austrian argument.
Dear readers:
I apologise for the lack of posts lately. I have been out of town at the Austrian Scholars Conference. I presented a paper with Mark Thornton on Richard Cantillon and how (we argue) Cantillon views entrepreneurship theory as leading to discovery of economic theory. It was a great conference although travel from OZ to [...]
