-David Talbot
“Imagine a parallel universe in which Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø wrote gentle detective stories set in country houses and vicarages. This might well have been the world we’d be living in if, more than half a century ago, an eminent Swedish journalist called Per Wahlöö had not fallen in love with a young publisher named Maj Sjöwall.” The Telegraph (UK)
The fight to be an angel investor.
Dogs are social eavesdroppers and they avoid unhelpful people.
"What I've learnt from these films is that attacking freedom of speech becomes one way in which dictators try to control public debate and thoughts," he said. "Tony Abbott scares me when he attacks the ABC and tries to control what we see on it. Should we all be afraid of his attacks on Q&A and [the] ABC, both things I love?" Tony Abbott scares me 10 year old confronts QA on freedom of speech
Surprise, surprise: "Stephanie", the guitarist in a band so successful that she makes $300,065 a year without anyone recognising her, doesn't really exist. A spokeswoman for the Treasurer's office confirmed to Fairfax today that the case study that appeared on the budget 2015 website and caused amused disbelief in the music industry this week was fictional Stephanie the guitarist who earns 300k a year isn't real
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James
Buchanan was a fountainhead of ideas, as his twenty volume collected works demonstrate. But there is another
side to Buchanan’s contributions that is less apparent. Buchanan was more than
a scholar, more than an idea man. He was also an intellectual entrepreneur who
led a worldwide movement. We like to believe that good ideas defeat bad ideas,
that the cream rises to the top, that truth wins out in the end, but as John
Stuart Mill (1859) stated, “Men are not more zealous for truth than they often
are for error.” Indeed, error may attract more zealots, since error can bend
itself to flatter, and the truth does not bend.
Buchanan
understood right from the beginning that for good ideas to win requires a
movement, and a movement is not built on ideas alone, but also on students, on
conferences, on outreach, on media, and on money.
“James M.
Buchanan: A Celebration of Achievement,” just now published
A Tiny Bank’s Surreal Trip Through a Fraud Prosecution Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times.
A Tiny Bank’s Surreal Trip Through a Fraud Prosecution Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times.
James Buchanan was a fountainhead of ideas, as his twenty volume collected works demonstrate. But there is another side to Buchanan’s contributions that is less apparent. Buchanan was more than a scholar, more than an idea man. He was also an intellectual entrepreneur who led a worldwide movement. We like to believe that good ideas defeat bad ideas, that the cream rises to the top, that truth wins out in the end, but as John Stuart Mill (1859) stated, “Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error.” Indeed, error may attract more zealots, since error can bend itself to flatter, and the truth does not bend.That is the opening to a I talk I gave at the 2013 memorial, “James M. Buchanan: A Celebration of Achievement,” just now published.
Buchanan understood right from the beginning that for good ideas to win requires a movement, and a movement is not built on ideas alone, but also on students, on conferences, on outreach, on media, and on money.
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