Townhall.com. Ludwig von Mises Institute Home. TCS Daily : Technology - Commerce - Society. The Austrian Economists. |Peter Boettke| Listening to NPR one morning, this story about soccer playing robots came on and I was intrigued by the discussion. When I entered graduate school and was assigned to Don Lavoie, my expectation would be that I would be working on questions related to the problems of economic calculation under socialism. Of course, I wasn't disappointed as in the first 2 years of graduate study Lavoie was finishing up Rivalry and Central Planning, and National Economic Planning: What is Left? But most of my work for Don at that stage of those projects was reference checking, his argument was already completed and written down. So in addition to learning Gould and Ferguson (Micro), Henderson and Quandt (Micro), Varian (Micro), Branson (Macro), Barro (Macro), Chiang (math econ), Silberberg (math econ), Theil (econometrics) and Kmenta (econometrics) during my first year, I was spending weekends reading not only Michael Polanyi but Herbert Dryfus, John Searle, etc.
National Libertarian Party. The Cato Institute. Cato Unbound. Cato @ Liberty. Nuclear negotiations with Iran continue in Vienna. Skeptics remain many: everything depends on whether the ruling elite, and not just President Hassan Rouhani, is serious about reform. Iran should demonstrate its commitment by respecting religious liberty. The most celebrated case of persecution today is Saeed Abedini, an American citizen born in Iran and sentenced to eight years in prison last year for “undermining national security” by the Iranian government.
A Muslim convert to Christianity, his “crime” in Tehran’s view apparently was aiding house churches. He went to Iran in 2012 to set up an orphanage, with the government’s approval. Since then he was abused and tortured while held at two of Iran’s worst prisons. Unfortunately, Abedini represents far broader religious repression. Tehran’s brutal persecution has been getting worse.
Currently the regime appears to be most concerned about conversions. Iran is a theocratic state whose laws are to be based on “Islamic criteria.” LP St. Johns County.