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Raționalitate
http://rationalitate.blogspot.com
A current events blog from a market anarchist's perspective, with commentary on politics, economics, history, science, and technology.
- Added on: Mar 15th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Stephen
- Listed in: Libertarian Economic
- Tags: politics libertarian free market Current Events economics austrian economics
Recent Posts
Kabul\'s wedding singer district
Apparently, in Kabul, there's a "wedding singer district" – or at least a part of a street – where you can insist on a live demonstration before hiring someone to sing at your wedding. Jan Chipchase's blog is always pretty interesting – he's a...
The economics and political economy of Gazan smuggling tunnels
I've written a lot in the past about the smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, but the London Review of Books has what has got to be the best article I've ever seen. As the article says, data's hard to find, but the anecdotes are prett...
Is Russia liberalizing its economy?
The Russian government has recently announced that a new round of privatizations of state firms will occur next year, and Stratfor seems to think that this is a potentially monumental step for the Russian state. According to Stratfor (the first two ...
Aspirin and the 1918 flu
The New York Times has an interesting article on a new paper that claims that some of the 50 million deaths worldwide attributed to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic may have actually been caused by aspirin overdoses, a common (but sometimes deadly) trea...
Russian natural gas market = capitalism?
In an article about natural gas pipelines to Europe, the New York Times makes the egregious error of implying that Russia's natural gas industry is anything other than an arm of the Russian government:It is a free-market capitalism that post-Communis...
With his Nobel, Obama will slay the communists and the godless
Here's Thorbjørn Jagland, head of the committee that issued the award, comparing what Obama's about to do to the fall of the Berlin wall, which liberated (to various extents) the 300 million people of the Eastern Bloc:He compared the selection of Mr...
