by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2015 | Economics
Don Boudreaux reviews Edmund Phelps’s “Mass Flourishing” at Cafe Hayek Excerpts: Piketty tells of a one-dimensional, dreary, and mechanical world in which wealth grows independently of human volition and where each person is fixated on the amount of money in other...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2015 | Global Warming
from N.Y. Times, Greenpeace Smear Warming Skeptic Dr. Willie Soon Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon is no stranger to the “art” of the media smear. A courageous scientist and outspoken critic of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming, AGW, Dr. Soon has been subjected to...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 27, 2015 | Global Warming
from A Shameful Climate Witch Hunt by Rich Lowry in The Wall Street Journal Let the climate inquisition begin. The ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, has written to seven universities about seven researchers who harbor...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 26, 2015 | Economics, Health Care
from The New Yorker, a review on the book America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill. The review is by Malcolm Gladwell. excerpt: Goldhill takes a far more radical position than the economic team at the White House does. He believes that most of our interactions...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2015 | Global Warming
Though Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is Unbowed- from The New York Times by Michael Wines Excerpts: Dr. Christy is an outlier on what the vast majority of his colleagues consider to be a matter of consensus: that global warming is both settled...
