Archive for Sandy Ikeda
Sandy Ikeda is an associate professor of economics at Purchase College, SUNY, and the author of The Dynamics of the Mixed Economy:Toward a Theory of Interventionism.
Super Bowl versus Education?
It appears that spending on government education in one year was 324 times the amount companies spent on Super Bowl advertising over 20 years.
7Feb2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 16 comments | ContinuedTwo Kinds of Government Failure
One emphasizes incentive problems, the other knowledge problems.
24Jan2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 2 comments | ContinuedCommerce and Artistic Freedom
The dynamic merchant class gave birth to artistic freedom a thousand years ago, and today commerce continues to open new opportunities for creative expression to budding artists.
10Jan2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedHayek and the Presumption of Goodwill
In a world of heated ideological differences and partisan political conflict, it’s tempting to paint our opponents as stupid and evil. We need to get past that. We need to keep learning.
13Dec2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 13 comments | ContinuedFacebook and Familiar Strangers
The genesis and development of early cities, the foundation of the Great Society, depended as much on the freedom to break old, strong ties as on the freedom to form of new, weak ones.
29Nov2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 29 comments | ContinuedLeaking Left and Right
When what you’re seeking through politics is simply “more,” there’s no principled way to say when enough is enough.
15Nov2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 11 comments | ContinuedDon’t Tread On Others
I realize there’s an historical reason for “Don’t Tread On Me.” But many today, both defenders and detractors of libertarianism, believe it captures the essence of the philosophy.
1Nov2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 12 comments | ContinuedNo Bad Apple?
It’s a little surprising that Occupy Wall Street protesters haven’t condemned Steve Jobs, one of the leading members of the “1 percent.”
18Oct2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 16 comments | ContinuedKnow Thine Enemy, Know Thyself
I think Jane Jacobs might have been there amongst the Wall Street protesters, but I believe she would have known exactly what the source of the problem is.
4Oct2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 7 comments | ContinuedMacroeconomics Needs SMUT
The value of anything, including labor and what it produces, is never disembodied: It is must be valuable to someone for something.
20Sep2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 19 comments | ContinuedWhere To Begin?
Choosing the right unit of analysis is more than an academic exercise. It’s a matter of poverty and prosperity, even of death and life.
6Sep2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment, So Five Years Ago!
It’s not reasonable to expect government programs to be efficient or innovative.
23Aug2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 11 comments | ContinuedWhy Caveat Emptor?
The beauty of the free market is that it lets us choose, not perfectly but better than any of the alternatives, how much we expose ourselves to uncertainty.
9Aug2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Breezes of Creative Destruction
As dramatic as the news of Borders’s closing has been, in the larger scheme of things economic change happens fairly slowly, at least compared to changes caused by governments.
26Jul2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Market: This Time It’s Personal
Freedom of movement, in physical and social space, is the essence of the free society.
12Jul2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Virtue of Market Inefficiency
A living economy needs to create inefficiencies, and lots of them, to set the stage for greater efficiency and ongoing innovation.
28Jun2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 5 comments | ContinuedPreservation at the Expense of Liberty
Using political power to preserve any cherished way of life — trying to stay the uncertain dynamic that washes through social institutions, norms, and conventions — is not only futile but ultimately destructive of liberty.
14Jun2011 | Sandy Ikeda | 2 comments | Continued-
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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
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