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Violence and the State

January 8, 2013 – 9:30 am

The always worth reading Prof. Gene Callahan recently posted – citing Jared Diamond’s example of warfare among the Dani of New Guinea — that violence is rooted in human nature, not the state. Prof. Callahan observes: The problem isn’t the State: the problem is human beings. And the problem with admitting that problem is you’re not left [...]

By Lorenzo | Posted in Defence, Drugs, Economics, History, Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Religion, Technology | Also tagged democide, Gene Callahan, gun control, homicide rates, Jared Diamond, Leninism, monopoly, Nazism, paradox of rulership, R J Rummel, Somalia, Steve Sailor, steven pinker, violence, war on drugs | Comments (16)

Debt and boom

July 19, 2012 – 11:02 am

The slogan for this post is: don’t think debt, think safe assets. (This post is partly provoked by this post by Paul Krugman responded to by Scott Sumner and by Marcus Nunes.) In my Debt, Doom and Despair post I noted that a hugely debt-burdened post-Napoleonic Wars UK (where the national public debt was probably about [...]

By Lorenzo | Posted in Australia, Britain, Economics, History, Public Policy, Taxation, Technology, Welfare | Also tagged Alfonso IX, Bank of France, Bank of Japan, Edward I, Ernest Gellner, Eurozone, Evan Soltas, foreign aid, GFC, ibn Khaldun, japan, Marcus Nunes, Napoleonic Wars, Paul Krugman, public debt, risk, Scott Sumner, US Federal Reserve | Comments (3)