October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
This is an excellent essay! However, in referring to the Protestant impact on economic development, I wish Harrison had referred to The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Philip S. Gorski. I think Gorski does a better job of explaining Protestantism's impact better than Weber, but I think he gives credit to the wrong group of Protestants. I believe Israel, in his histories of the Dutch Republic, demonstrates that the Calvinists would have retarded development, as they did in Scotland and in Switzerland under Calvin. In the Dutch Republic, it was the Erasmian Protestants, such as Grotius, who were later called Remonstrants, who created the institutions that powered the Dutch economic "miracle".
Sounds to me like this might be relevant to immigration policy.