Recent content by 98Tokay

The Voluntary City is easily the best book on this subject, I believe. http://www.independent.org/publications/books/book_summary.asp?bookID=17

After War - Chris Coyne Robust Political Economy - Mark Pennington When Jesus Became God - Richard Rubenstein

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.” - Herbert Spencer

I can't decide whether I enjoy the commercialization or secularization of Christmas more. Either way, the OP just seems to be looking for excuses to get his panties up in a twist.

Well, in any reasonable list of "Top Thinkers" Ron Paul would not be mentioned. There are too many other intellectuals, and I give bonus points for originality. But given that the list focuses mostly on power-worship and status-whoring on the part of Foreign Policy magazine, I suppose Ron Paul...

Roy Childs, Jr. said it best when he wrote: "Libertarians themselves should take heart. Our hope lies, as strange as it seems, not with any remnants from an illusory "golden age" of individualism, which never existed, but with tomorrow. Our day has not come and gone. It has never existed at...

Tomorrow.

Again, it may vary depending on the program, but I do not expect that you would be heavily penalized for taking classes at the local state school. It is not uncommon for PhD students to have taken additional math courses at a college of convenience during the years intervening undergrad and...

A monopoly can only exist with the aid of the government. If 1 is yes, then 2 must also be yes.

Not all academic economists rely on math in their research, but all economists require math to complete their studies. The mathematicization of the econ profession is hotly debated, but the reality is that any aspiring economist must have the basic skills of the discipline. Even if your own work...

While there are many good libertarian explanations of how a free society might conceivably work (David Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Randy Barnett, the Tannehills, and many more have written extensively on this subject), I think it is important to clarify that we don't know. We don't know what a...

The State. Smash it.

It varies based on the program, but at a bare minimum, almost every school is going to require Calculus and Linear Algebra. And at good programs (Top 50), you probably won't be able to get in with that little math unless you have already published in economics journals as an undergrad, or are...

This is silliness. In my experience, people who deny evolution have only ever learned biology in church. Theodosius Dobzhansky (a Christian, for what it's worth) got it right when he wrote that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

I am indifferent to privatization in the form of governments subcontracting out tyranny. Abolition of government and subsequent private provision of necessary services though... I'm a big fan.