Moved to MT- July 20, 2004 The Fly Bottle is no longer published with Blogger. You can find the old site, and the old archives, complete with old comments from this page. For the current MT-generated site, with recent posts, and so forth, go to the main page: willwilkinson.netflybottlehttp://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/moved-to-mt.html For Aggregators Newsreaders- July 13, 2004 If you're reading The Flybottle through an aggregator, I've updated my site and my syndication address has changed. Try: http:www.willwilkinson.netflybottleindex.rdf or http:www.willwilkinson.netflybottleindex.xml Thanks!http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/for-aggregators-newsreaders.html Fetters and Fairness- July 8, 2004 -- When will the left stop saying dumb things like this The U.S. economic-policy debate is in fact dominated by the assumption that unfettered markets work best, a view that's applied to our domestic economy and to that of other countries through international financial institutions that the United States controls. John Kerry's recent statement that he is "not a redistributionist" indicates how dominant this view has become. That's Lawrence Mishel in TAP. If the economic-policy debate is...http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/fetters-and-fairness.html GPI Field Dispatches- July 7, 2004 -- I mentioned the Mercatus Center Global Prosperity Initiative Journalism Fellows a while back. GPI has now posted dispatches from the field from the intrepid fellows. Matt Welch in Romania. Melinda Ammann in Botswana. Mark Hemingway in Philippines. These aren't formal articles. They're dispatches. So they're breezy and chatty, which to my mind makes them even better reading.http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/gpi-field-dispatches.html Tragedy of the Bunnies- July 7, 2004 -- Try this cute little gameeconomics lesson from IHS.http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/tragedy-of-bunnies.html Negative and Positive Rights- July 6, 2004 -- I started this long post a month or so ago when there was a bunch of talk about positive and negative liberty, etc. I found much of the discussion confused. I never finished this post, which ended up getting me confused, but I thought I would share what I had in any case. Comments welcome. ----- First, I don't think there are natural rights of any kind. Rights are conventional. If they are justified it is because they enable or otherwise contribute to a general system of mutually...http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/negative-and-positive-rights.html Self-Promo- July 6, 2004 -- My review essay on Brookhiser's and Adams's recent biographies of Gouverneur Morris are now online at Reason.http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/self-promo.html An Incredulous Stare- July 1, 2004 -- Matt Yglesias says: "It strikes me as a tautology to say that coercion in the pursuit of the common good is justified, and, indeed, necessary, though as I say people disagree and I don't know how one could possibly resolve such a disagreement." Resolution might be forthcoming (some day, not soon) if Matt would take care to start making sense. It's strikes me as a tautology that a tautology just says the same thing twice. "X is coercion in the pursuit of the common good" and "X is...http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2004/07/incredulous-stare.html |