Wonder Information Tag

– November 23, 2020 Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s unfortunate for humanity that Hans Rosling died prematurely, February 2017. His insight and wisdom would possibly have tempered the mass hysteria over Covid-19. A professor of international health at Karolinska Institute, and cofounder of the Gapminder Foundation,...

As if our societies didn’t have enough conflicts, we have added a new beautiful way of pitting one person against another: Covid-restrictions. Instead of clamping down with the mighty force of government on some innocent behavior, politicians have outsourced the enforcement of their rules to...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 110 of Deirdre McCloskey’s and Art Carden’s splendid new (2020) book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World: The people studying to become better nudgers, meddlers, bureaucrats, administrators, or Keynesian magicians do...