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Discussion: A Future Without Fossil Fuels

Dick Coulson forwarded a recent New York Times article to me by Bill McKibben on the growth of "green energy" and the ultimate decline of fossil fuels. It's a good read. Here's a snippet from the article A Future Without Fossil Fuels?: "...in the 2020s—probably the early 2020s—the demand for... Read more →

American Institute for Economic Research

Are you up for some interesting brief daily reads? The AIER can satiate that desire. Here's a few links from the past couple days: No One Ever Paid Those High Tax Rates (brief video) Against Political Gnosticism That Fake Poll on the Green New Deal Lobbying Is Like Robbing a... Read more →

Where Economics Went Wrong

Economists should return to their classical liberal roots and recognize economics as an art involving non-scientific judgment. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. In a recent article, Lars Peter Hansen argues that the commonly used phrase “evidence-based policy” is misleading. He quotes Alfred Marshall in... Read more →

Bahamian Oil - A Misunderstanding of History

by Richard Coulson The ineffable Ms. Sam Duncombe has proclaimed that she is “more than irritated” by Government’s decision to extend to year-end 2020 Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) license to drill an exploratory well on its concessions southwest of Andros. The President of activist group Re-earth has often expressed her... Read more →

Laundered lies

Matt Ridley has another brilliant column. This time on a surge in medical and environmental pseudoscience: Laundered lies How bad science gets used for power and profit by some activists by Matt Ridley ‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence... Read more →

Books On Liberty that You Haven't Read but Should

Professor Donald Boudreaux recently opined on some excellent books we should all read. Tom Bethell, The Noblest Triumph (1998). Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter (2007). Tyler Cowen, In Praise of Commercial Culture (1998). Richard Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995). Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan... Read more →

Professor Per Bylund on AI and the Structure of Production, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 6:30pm.

The Nassau Institute In Collaboration with the Banking Economics & Finance Department & The Economics Society of The University of The Bahamas presents Professor Per Bylund on AI and the Structure of Production at the Harry C. Moore Library Lecture Hall, University of The Bahamas, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at... Read more →

Economist: The Green New Deal Is Built on Fear, Not Facts

The Green New Deal proposes to address environmental issues that are less problematic than many think. by William E. Fleischmann This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. Last week, environmental activist and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org, Bill McKibben, sent a valentine to Rep.... Read more →

Greek Fest 2019. Can't wait.

Will robots replace us?

Professor Per Bylund has an interesting take over at The Nassau Institute. Here's an excerpt: "Automation seems to be a never-ending source of fear-mongering. Judging from the commentary, robots will “replace us” and cause large-scale unemployment. With the entry of artificial intelligence (AI), and robots that make robots, the value... Read more →