Archive for August, 2008

Unrealistic hope among libertarians to save the climate by waiting for the market

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Why Karl Rove should call himself a libertarian is a mystery, given that the Bush Administration, which he served as a central adviser to, has greatly expanded, not reduced, the goverment impact on American citizens. In Art Diamonds Blog, another example is given for Mr. Rove's hypocricy: Rove criticizes McCain ...

Economics of Sex at the Olympic Games

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Matthew Syed, a former British Table-Tennis Player, has written a wonderfully amusing article called "Sex and the Olympic City" about the sex life in the Athletes' Village during the Olympic Games. He makes two interesting observations, probably suspected by the casual onlooker, but in its sincerity most fascinating: first of all, ...

Slaughter - A New World Order

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Anne Marie Slaughters Book on A New World Order deals with transgovernmental networks. She focuses on the classic governmental networks, but also on regulators, judges and parlamentarians establishing their own network. The description of Regulatory networks are particular interesting. According to Slaughter, regulatory networks emerged because of shared responsibility for transnational ...