Archive for Todd Zywicki
Todd Zywicki is a professor at George Mason University School of Law and the author of Bankruptcy and Personal Responsibility: Bankruptcy Law and Policy in the Twenty-First Century.
America’s Debt Paranoia
The headlines are alarming. The New York Times panicked that Americans are “Running in Debt” and just a few years later warned that Americans were “Borrowing Trouble.” Business Week asked, “Is the Country Swamped with Debt?” and U.S. News and World Report worried that “Never Have So Many Owed So Much.” Harper’s even expressed fear [...]
23Sep2009 | Todd Zywicki | 3 comments | ContinuedNonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
Vintage Books • 2001 • 448 pages • $15.00 paperback In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright argues that gains from trade, or “nonzero” transactions, is the motivating force driving human history. Because of the advantages of engaging in nonzero-sum transactions, it was virtually inevitable that living organisms would evolve whose primary function [...]
1Apr2001 | Todd Zywicki | 0 comments | Continued-
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Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
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The Snow Plowers’ Petition
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Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
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