LIBERTY
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The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty , named in honor of perhaps the greatest champion of liberty in the 20th century, is presented every other year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advance human freedom. The prize, a cash award of $250,000, will be presented to Chinese economist Mao Yushi on May 4 at the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty's Biennial Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. The dinner will feature a keynote address by Gov. Chris Christie and special remarks by John Stossel.
The Cato Institute
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi propose to refocus the libertarian movement. Although they agree that individual property rights are important, they propose to return libertarianism to its nineteenth-century intellectual roots. They argue that the classical liberals valued property rights for different reasons, perhaps, than we in the movement value them now: Property rights were intended to protect the least well-off workers in society. A "neoclassical liberal" would not advocate a welfare state, but would certainly value social justice; his means of attaining it would be through the institutions of property and contract. Roderick Long criticizes the sharp distinctions drawn by Zwolinski and Tomasi between nineteenth-century classical liberals and the "Unholy Trinity" of Mises, Rand, and Rothbard.
Cato Unbound
Cato @ Liberty
Posted by Ilya Shapiro For almost three years now, Cato has been running a highly successful legal associate program . Talented recent law school grads have come to work for us during the time that their law firms have “deferred” their start dates (from a few months to a full year), with commensurate stipends, and many law schools have created post-grad fellowships with similar conditions. Now that we’re again approaching graduation season, I thought I’d put out my annual call for more potential legal associates. We can always use the extra brain, you can always use Cato on your resume, and your firms/schools can always use your getting substantive legal experience/counting as “employed” for US News rankings—we all win!
Economics Blog
Today is “Blog Action Day;” here’s an apparent mission statement from the official website : “Today thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue–poverty. We aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!” I’ve been telling people for weeks that economists are the wet blankets of the world, so keeping this in mind I thought I would offer a few ideas about what we can do to reduce poverty around the world. 1.Samizdata.net
- Tony Blair, quoted by Max Hastings in a BBC television programme this evening about the Falklands War and its impact upon subsequent British military policy. The by-election in question happened during that war, and was a landslide victory for Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, and Tony Blair's only electoral reverse. I was rather pleased when my previous posting generated a large number of excellent comments - that's not always the case.
|Peter Boettke| Coach Jim Larranaga is one of the most intriguing coaches in all of NCAA basketball. Peter Keating did a profile on Coach L in ESPN The Magazine last month, focusing on his use of statistics to help with establishing performance measures for his teams. Larranaga was an economics major back at Providence College, where he also scored over a 1,000 points on the basketball court. Larranaga attributes his success in coaching through the ranks of NCAA D1 schools (inclduing his great run at GMU) to analytics.
The Austrian Economists
Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
The Summit of the Americas had its first day and headlines are still stressing the drug war as the hot issue. But Obama really wants to talk economy and free trade stuff. Still, several of the 30-plus leaders of countries represented at the meeting become deliciously outspoken in their desire to either end, dial down, or just talk about changing drug war policy throughout the Americas in the last few months and years. So what's up with that, Northern-Americans? Well, again, the U.S. does want to talk about the issue, paraphrases canada.com, "if only to "demystify" decriminalization as an option and show that such a move would backfire and make matters worse." It's not certain whether this refers to Vice President Joe Biden's bold March statement that "there is no possibility the Obama/Biden administration will change its policy on legalization " which is not exactly rich in enlightening detail about how exactly things would be made worse by reining in prohibition.
L’intensification des moyens de pression étudiants ayant pour objet de faire reculer le gouvernement dans le dossier de la hausse des droits de scolarité soulève quelques questions de fond qui méritent d’être abordées si l’on souhaite donner une réponse cohérente et sincère à leurs revendications. La première relève de la technique des mouvements de protestation étudiants. L’opération des associations étudiantes est aujourd’hui étrangement calquée sur le mouvement syndical et ce, avec le consentement des institutions d’enseignement et des autorités publiques. Font aujourd’hui partie des moeurs étudiantes les cotisations prélevées à la source, la prétention au droit de grève, la négociation collective et les manifestations propices aux méfaits publics tel que le blocage de routes et de ponts.
Le blogue du QL
Alerte rouge chez les zélotes verts de la décarbonisation: Le climat change ! Je ne parle pas ici des températures glaciales qui, cette année, ont attendu février pour submerger l'Europe, mais du climat intellectuel et politique dans le pays berceau européen de l'écologie politique, la verte et riante Allemagne. Rendez vous compte : moins de 31% des Allemands estiment aujourd'hui que le réchauffement climatique résulte des activités humaines, ou que ce soit un problème. Soleil Froid
Objectif Liberté
