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Links of Interest and Commentary
Jan. 28th, 2015 09:24 amWomen; Two Links of Interest On:
A) From the New York Times comes an interesting story of a woman traveling Europe on her own. To avoid getting hassled, she makes herself look like a man.
B) An article on a perennial topic, women at war: Getting Women Warriors wrong. Basically, the matriarch of an Afghan village stepped up to be the war leader, and the (American, female, wealthy) author of the story was badly confused.
Libertarians, One Link of Interest:
C) From David Brin, Competition, Stupid. Brin points out (somewhat at length) that classical economics (Adam Smith and St. Fredrich Hayek, in particular) were right and modern conservatives are wrong.
Classical economics requires free and fair competition to work! "Free and fair competition" is not the slavish devotion to wealth and corporations that we see from libertarians. Brin's money quote:
But in rejecting one set of knowledge-limited meddlers -- 100,000 civil servants -- libertarians and conservatives seem bent on ignoring market manipulation by 5,000 or so aristocratic golf buddies, who appoint each other to company boards in order to vote each other titanic "compensation packages" while trading insider information and conspiring together to eliminate competition. Go read the whole thing.
A) From the New York Times comes an interesting story of a woman traveling Europe on her own. To avoid getting hassled, she makes herself look like a man.
B) An article on a perennial topic, women at war: Getting Women Warriors wrong. Basically, the matriarch of an Afghan village stepped up to be the war leader, and the (American, female, wealthy) author of the story was badly confused.
Libertarians, One Link of Interest:
C) From David Brin, Competition, Stupid. Brin points out (somewhat at length) that classical economics (Adam Smith and St. Fredrich Hayek, in particular) were right and modern conservatives are wrong.
Classical economics requires free and fair competition to work! "Free and fair competition" is not the slavish devotion to wealth and corporations that we see from libertarians. Brin's money quote:
But in rejecting one set of knowledge-limited meddlers -- 100,000 civil servants -- libertarians and conservatives seem bent on ignoring market manipulation by 5,000 or so aristocratic golf buddies, who appoint each other to company boards in order to vote each other titanic "compensation packages" while trading insider information and conspiring together to eliminate competition. Go read the whole thing.
