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The Top Political Contributors
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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
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BRYAN CAPLAN
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
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Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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And here's how to become a famous philosopher:
Come up with powerfully clever arguments using premises accepted by most all academic philosophers for an obviously untrue, daft, or just plain crazy conclusion. David Lewis is a modern example. Bishop Berkeley perhaps the ultimate champion of the genre.
Don't try this unless you've come out of a top 5 philosophy department and have yourself an appointment at another top 5 school. The ability to propose this sort of argument is, actually, a good even more scarce than the one you mention.
I'll agree these goods are scares and are rationed as you say. The question is how high is their price? That is, among the many rewards offered to "top" people, how large does this good loom in their overall compensation package?