On behalf of everyone here at Civitas, I want to thank all our readers for making this such a great year for Red Clay Citizen and for Civitas. This month we broke another record for unique visitors, and we hope to continue the trend going into 2008. In usual New Year’s Eve fashion, here is [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Flexible Pay for Bureaucrats
Interesting idea from Singapore: make government more flexible with wages, pay, and performance. (I’d add, of course, cost-cutting incentives.)-Max Borders
Billionaires for Big Government
Soros and other guilt-ridden ex-hedge-fund speculators are putting big bucks behind their favorite big government candidates. (More here.)This is about corporate interests backing horses as much as ideology. Expect no less from the likes of Z. Smith Reynolds and the Fletcher Foundation here in North Carolina. What a titanic war. What a titanic waste of [...]
We’re Being Overtreated
Moral hazard and overconsumption are huge problems in healthcare. Don’t believe it? Here’s your New Year’s book — NYTimes calls it the best economics book of 2007. Yes the NYTimes.
Boudreaux on Today’s Krugmania
I’m starting to think that Paul Krugman is so enamored with being a darling of the left, that he has forgotten – or perhaps abandoned – even the fundamentals (law of comparative advantage). Boudreaux pits him against himself again: Paul Krugman worries that, although trade between high-wage countries is mutually beneficial, "trade between countries at [...]
