Twitter got real fired up today about a post I made last week. In it, I attacked a Megan McArdle piece in which she argues that providing poor people more resources would not solve the pain they experience from relationships and status and (some of them) being out of work and so on. My point… Continue reading The McArdle Paragraph
Author: Matt Bruenig
College Cost Trends From 1999-2012
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS) is out with fresh college cost data, which the College Board has neatly summarized. This data is released every four years and is the best source out there for really finding out what college costs actual students. In what follows, I detail the cost data from the 1999-2000 year… Continue reading College Cost Trends From 1999-2012
On money and meaning
McArdle has this piece about how increasing the incomes and economic security of people won’t solve everything. You can read the whole thing if you want, but basically the idea here is that there are other harms in the world than not having an adequate level of income and economic security, including harms related to… Continue reading On money and meaning
Law professor argues protectionism for law professors definitely good
Paul Campso bio at Wikipedia: Paul F. Campos [sic] is a law professor, author and blogger on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder. This Campso fellow is really upset at a piece I wrote in which I argue that we should do what tons of other countries do and make it… Continue reading Law professor argues protectionism for law professors definitely good
Fun game: identify the aggressor in this animated gif
The median libertarian out there on the internet (especially in the sad pits of Reddit) seriously thinks the non-aggression principle does work in favor of their preferred economic institutions. Even notable people like Jason Kuznicki of Cato can get sucked into this stupidity, though from what I recall of our last run in, he has… Continue reading Fun game: identify the aggressor in this animated gif