When you ask a gun owner if they use their gun to deter crime,
it seems respondents would realize their aggregated answers will be
used by those making policy arguments. This alone would seem to make
it difficult to evaluate any survey including that question.
Perhaps there is some way of accoun
please disregard the previous message, it was not written by me
Patrick McCann
I believe this is topical; it was sparked by the pronoucement of the
grading policy for an economics course by an economics professor on
this list. He said that if one gives better grades to those who do well
in the end of the semester, one simply discriminates against those who
work hard
"Every advantage which is appropriated, or even under certain
circumstances one which has not been formally appropriated, may have
the effect of stereotyping existing forms of social action. "
That is lifted straight from Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
(Economy and Society) Part One,
The terms statist and statism do not derive from Mises. Please note
third definition of statism's first use. Also, statist has for quite
some time meant a person skilled in affairs of the state, not just a
supporter of statism. If this is incorrect, I implore you to report it
to the folks at OE
