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
Notice Ron Paul's tragic performance?
Yes, yes, his supporters keep telling me that he REALLY wants free trade, and only votes against these half measures because he wants more PURE free trade.
His strategy, to say the least, is very confusing. Not only to me, but also to the xenophobes. Is that why someone recently sent me a protectionist screed about losing jobs to foreigners under a Ron Paul fan club title....
Paul Geddes, Vancouver CANADA
(location should indicate why I'm particular senstivie about border gestapo supporters)
Nice, but the application is irritating in its incompleteness. I can immediately think of a lot of ways I'd like to dissect the data that aren't presented:
* By party.
* By region or state.
* Who are the most/least anti-trade.
I'm sure there are many more ways of looking at it.
I thought we had reached the point where everyone is rational by definition and any inadequacy is in our understanding of it, or have I missed something?
Dear Lord,
You have missed Bryan's latest book, apparently...
I have to side with Paul and Kevin Carson on those "free trade agreements". Simple public choice theory leads me to believe most bills produced by our legislature are exercises in rent-seeking. Bills as bloated as those agreements especially so. Who cares if they call it "free trade"? What it is in practice is just more statism.
Pedant,
Hear Hear!
Given that people who visit the Cato site are highly likely to be in favour of free trade, you've probably identified a nonproblem.
Protectionists are less intelligent on average and unlikely to find Cato's rankings.
I'd be one of the first to point out McCain's shortcomings, his record on free trade is fantastic. That has to be a good sign, right?