Leonard Liggio (1933-2014)
A personal obit in Forbes. (I met Leonard in Portsmouth, NH) Leonard LiggioLiberty
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Silent Risk
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has freely made available a collection of his lectures. asymmetric exposuresDecision makingfat tailsfragilityNassim Nicholas Talebprobabilitysilent risk
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
Russ Roberts’ latest getting some high-profile press, and endorsed by some top-notch names including the redoubtable Nassim Taleb. Here is an extended interview with Reason. On this general approach to Smith see this forthcoming collection. Adam Smith, didn’t think the pursuit of wealth was a very good idea, thought it was corrosive, thought it was bad…
Can Government Be Self-Organized?
A new co-authored paper by the very versatile Tom Froese. The model is in agreement with the traditional assumption that collective action is faced by serious problems without centralized hierarchical control, but it also clearly shows that spontaneous cooperation is feasible without it. At least in principle, there is no necessity to assume the existence…
The Moviegoer – quotes and extracts – 6
“I no longer pretend to understand the world.” She is shaking her head yet still smiling her sweet menacing smile. “The world I knew has come crashing down around my ears. The things we hold dear are reviled and spat upon.” She nods toward Prytania Street. “It’s an interesting age you will live in—though I…
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 74
Unaware that he was being trailed, Ignatius pushed his cart against the traffic down St. Charles toward the Quarter. He had stayed up so late the night before working on his lecture for the kickoff rally that he hadn’t been able to move from his yellowed sheets until almost noon, and then it had only…
Classic Mint Julep Recipe
After the first long swallow — really a slow and noiseless suck, because the thick crushed ice comes against your teeth and the ice must be kept out and the liquor let in — Cap Mac would say: “Very fine, Camille, you make the best julep in the world.” She probably did. Certainly her juleps…
New C+T Free Symposia
Check out the latest (and last) raft of papers from the soon to be defunct SIEO now hosted under auspices of C+T: Symposium on Luigino Bruni’s The Genesis and Ethos of the Market Symposium on Gary Chartier’s Anarchy and Legal Order Symposium on Deborah Stevenson’s The City Austrian Economicscomplexitycosmos & taxisplanningrationalismsocial epistemology
Tacit Knowledge Meets Analytic Kantianism
The very excellent Stephen Turner on tacit knowledge in the latest issue of Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical. EpistemologyGilbert RyleHubert DreyfusJason StanleyJohn McDowellJohn Searleknowing-that knowing-howMichael PolanyinormativismPittsburgh Schoolsocial epistemologyStephen TurnerTacit knowledge
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 73
Dear Reader, Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of man’s own making. — Addison As I was wearing the soles of my desert boots down to a mere sliver of crepe rubber on the old flagstone banquettes of the French Quarter in my fevered attempt to wrest a living from…
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