by Henry Oliner | Jun 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
From Leighton Woodhouse at Substack, The New Clerisy: At every such juncture, we’ve been admonished to “believe the science.” But this is not science; it’s politics. Science demands a reflexive posture of skepticism toward received wisdom, tempered by trust in...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 5, 2017 | Economics
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in The Twenty First Century, has spawned a cottage industry of dissent. Piketty uses masses of data to illuminate a growth in inequality, that he surmises is an inevitable result of capitalism and can only be resolved by painfully high...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 4, 2016 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
by Henry Oliner Deidre McCloskey in Bourgeois Equality and Joel Mokyr in Culture of Growth examine the incredible growth in human betterment since 1850. Thomas Malthus predicted a dismal future for human kind from the very logical prediction that food production could...
