Regarding the economic return to beauty this newspaper cite suggests a
link through health.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2943464.stm
...
Researchers in Spain have found that men who are regarded as attractive
by women are also more fertile.
Their sperm move faster and are generally
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Now Pete Boettke asked me if there are any peoples with the
opposite combination: bad personal culture, good political culture.
The best Prof. Bryan Caplan
Note that insistence on free markets, limited gov't, democracy, etc.
is a pretty recent phenomena - so one
Absolutely speaking, sure. But e.g. the U.S. and U.K. have been
*relatively* more sympathetic to these ideas for centuries.
Prof. Bryan Caplan
I think my email got crunched, but if you are talking relative levels,
then some Latin American countries have semi-decent
The Warnick Theory of Perverse Government Tangents:
Those of us who have been in Government a long time, note that, repeatedly,
Government goes off on perverse tangents. Perverse tangents are tasks that
Government line organizations are directed to pursue at all costs and under
tremendous
I've been involved for several years in helping DARPA to create some
markets to help aggregate info on political, military, and economic changes
in the Middle East, and the effect of US policy on such changes. For those
interested, we are finally going public with some info on these
markets:
I think there was a poll taken a few years ago on what policies economists preferred. Does anyone know what percent were against the minimum wage?
Cyril Morong
Those of us who have been in Business a long time note that, repeatedly,
Business goes off on perverse tangents, just like Government does.
The Undis Corollary to The Warwick Theory of Perverse Government Tangents
explains that perverse tangents are created and grown in Business using the
same
While it may appear that the Warnick Theory of Perverse Government Tangents
has thus been born full grown, it is nevertheless recognized that
improvements or amplifications may be possible. They are welcome.
Walt Warnick
Sorry, Walt. You've been beaten to the punch:
Read Meyer and
