Politics is the process of creating and using institutions to issue orders, codified as laws, to commit organized violence to coerce others to alter their behavior, and to separate them …
No, the effort today has changed from arguing in favor of labor, to arguing in favor of the poor and minorities. And from arguing for rents, to arguing for direct …
The Muslim countries were part of the Ottoman empire. The Ottomans could not modernize for complex reasons, and could not compete with western expansion. When the empire fell, the westerners …
Um.. This is one of those problems that’s really nonsense. All employees should be compensated at market rates. Otherwise if you are lower, they won’t stay, if they are over, …
There are plenty of treatments of the subject that discuss the decline of the ‘civic society’ and decline of ‘civic participation’ in society, because the state has destroyed the motivation …
They don’t. While it costs nothing to abstain from theft, fraud and violence, it costs something to administer defense and disputes. The libertarian argument is that these things can be …
I agree with Dave, despite being an advocate of Scrum in most circumstances. A controversial argument: Scrum was developed for: 1) Small teams of talented people.2) Strong buy in from …
There are a series of possible stimuli available from the short term to the long term.1) Spending – Fiscal Policy: the government borrows money, then spends it on any number …
Go visit Intrade.com. Monitor it there. It’s quite accurate. The electorate is polarized with only about 12-15% of people uncommitted to one party or the other. Elections are determined by …
OWS and The tea party are both likely to be long term phenomena caused by structural changes in the USA, and in the world economy. OWS still exists as a …
When I read Hayek, Schumpeter and Hoppe I became a libertarian. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/When-has-a-fact-any-fact-caused-you-to-radically-change-your-politics
They represent different sets of alliances. Mostly those that want to expand the state and those who want to contract it. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-differences-between-the-political-parties-in-the-USA
You would need to understand the term “Socialism”1) Original meaning: central control of the means of production.2) Current meaning: redistributive democracy -central ownership of the profits from individual actions. The …
It would violate the principle of free speech.It would increase corruption at the cost of decreasing an annoyance.It would very likely decrease voter participation https://www.quora.com/Should-political-advertisements-be-banned-from-television
From Karl Smith by way of Noah Smith While you don’t want to get trapped into people thinking that cyclical concerns are liberal concerns … I don’t think it actually …
