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FEE Summer Seminars 2009
FEE is pleased to announce our 47th consecutive summer of student seminars. We have altered a few things in the program, and it promises to be a rewarding seminar season.One of the exciting changes on the agenda is our expansion to include different seminar locations. In addition to our home in Irvington, New York, we [...]
22Jan2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | ContinuedSurreptitious Serendipity
Though I’m almost hesitant to draw an economic conclusion from the recent airplane crash on the Hudson, I’m only almost hesitant. Examples of spontaneous order are always, by their nature, unplanned. Jeff Kolodjay (a passenger on the plane), perhaps unknowingly, articulated his encounter with spontaneous order. When asked to describe his experience, he said that [...]
22Jan2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | Continued“The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution” (Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos, p. 28).
I have to confess that I really do want to like the Sarkozy’s. I find President Sarkozy endlessly entertaining, though sometimes more for gaffes that would be simply unheard of in U.S. politics than for his policy (take, for instance, his recent insult sans apology episode). And Carla Bruni, though her past may not speak [...]
21Jan2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | Continued-
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Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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