By WILLIAM F. SHUGHART II Sixty years ago this December, President Dwight D. Eisenhower turned a dangerous situation around. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly at the height of the Cold War, he made a commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. That commitment is now being threatened: by activists who oppose [...]
Atoms for Peace: Now What?
The Politics of “Need”
How Washington makes things look worse than they really are By Randy Simmons and Ryan Yonk Every fiscal crisis is an opportunity to play budget games. This week’s panicked attempts by Congress to deal with the sequester presents a special opportunity for federal agencies to remind the public just how addicted the agencies are to [...]
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Why God is Efficient
In chapter fourteen of Friedman’s book he states that ‘the simplest solution to the problem of externalities’ is a ‘central authority figure who figures out what everyone should do and tells them to do it.’ However Friedmen then points out that in the world in both ‘theory and practice’ having a central authority figure is [...]
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Conscription and Chess
Leeson’s chapter on conscription was very interesting to me. A lot of the statements that Leeson uses seem to be common sense. I’m not sure however, if it is because of the economic training that I have had or because his arguments are really common sense. He however, does have a way of simplifying complex motives [...]