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By Pete Boettke
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Coordination Problem
Do We Need Traffic Lights?
By Pete Boettke
Not according to Hans Monderman, a “traffic planner” who is behind the removing of all traffic lights in the northern Dutch town of Drachten (see the article in the Telegraph).…
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The Ultimate Resource and World Poverty
By Pete Boettke
Airing soon on TV will be a new show inspired by the optimism of the great Julian Simon showing how individuals when left free to choose utilize their imagination and…
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It’s Gotta Be The Weather?
By Pete Boettke
For basketball junkies Michael Jordan burst on the scene at Five-Star Basketball Camp, for fans of college basketball it was hitting a shot against Georgetown to win the National Championship…
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Moolah for Mugabe
By Pete Boettke
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation recently announced the Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership (see Tyler Cowen’s post here). The prize “recognizes former executive Heads of State or Government…
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The CBC—as Bad as the BBC…
By Pete Boettke
More on media bias. The Fraser Institute in Vancouver published in June 2005 a study of the anti-Americanism bias (called the “garrison mentality”) at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). See…
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Adam Smith on the New £20 Banknote
By Pete Boettke
The Bank of England announced the making of a new £20 banknote which will feature Adam Smith (see here, and here is what The Times says). It will come out…
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The BBC is Biased… It’s Official
By Pete Boettke
The BBC recently held an “impartiality summit” that revealed how biased its journalists are—in their reporting and their culture (see article from the Daily Mail here). In the words of…
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On a Recent Trip to Kuala Lumpur
By Pete Boettke
I saw the biggest externality in the world… or so it seemed. While in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) last week, I didn’t see much blue sky. As an article in The…
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Entrepreneur in Sneakers: RIP Arnold “Red” Auerbach
By Pete Boettke
The great basketball coach of the Boston Celtics Red Auerbach passed away on Saturday October 28th at the age of 89. John Feinstein's Let Me Tell You a Story is…
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The World’s Worst Polluted Places
By Pete Boettke
If you are interested in knowing what the top ten most polluted places are according to the Blacksmith Institute, click here. These places are located in Ukraine (1), Russia (3),…