TweetHere’s a letter to the New York Times. Editor: Encountering, in David Leonhardt’s report, a summary of Peter Navarro’s attempted justifications of Trump’s tariffs makes the head spin (“A Disagreement on Tariffs,” February 18). Navarro’s arguments are so illogical, self-contradictory, and economically ignorant that they’d be merely laughable were he not an advisor to the […]

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20.02.2025

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Tweet… is from page 378 of Joel Mokyr’s superb 2009 book, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850: The Hobbesian view that insisted that order can only be achieved through firm third-party enforcement may well be true for many societies, but it appears that for Britain in the century following Hobbes’ death (1679) […]

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21.02.2025

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Tweet… is from page 124 of Johan Norberg’s excellent 2023 book, The Capitalist Manifesto: Sven Norfeldt, one of Sweden’s most successful entrepreneurs, once described the market to me as a minefield. Over there, on the other side, there is new knowledge, capacities, products and services that could enrich the whole of society. But our path […]

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21.02.2025

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TweetGeorge Will hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will agree to hear a case that will allow it to overturn the egregious 2005 Kelo ruling. Two slices: In Kelo, the court further diluted the concept of “public use,” making it mean “public benefit.” The court upheld (5-4) the New London (Connecticut) Development Corp.’s condemnation of […]

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