Well u gotta do what u gotta do
11.03.2026 23:00
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Well u gotta do what u gotta do
Wait wait wait, I have never been anti markets!
On Adam Smith's Machiavellian (and Humean) functional criticism of Burkean style explanations
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15th century peasants were not subjected to the emotional toll of posting and thinking about what to post all day
If anything the soft-budget constraint subsidizing loss-making SOEs probably biased the improvements of private enterprises downwards
As standard price theory predicts, marketized firms usually vastly outperformed state enterprises over the long-run.
Chinese reform is like the perfect natural experiment. Provincial policy autonomy means large sample space. Interregional economic profiles exactly the same so de facto randomized assignment of treatment. Dual track system to compare state and private industries.
CCP guy who's reading Milton Friedman to build communism
We are smarter, true. But there's a vast difference between past generations being stupid and them being less smart.
Mighty Avengers from Al Ewing issue #2
bro who invited u
Also Talarico is a Presbyterian! A denomination that's theologically Reformed!
@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social
but yet (from Calvin's Sermons on the Galatians)
Guy with roomba: I have less leisure time than peasants
L doesn't care about justice, the game's the motivation for him.
Our ancestors were not stupid
Thank you to ALL our soldiers in the fight against climate change:
Battery designers
Solar panel designers
The Chinese Communist Party
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Joe Biden
The Islamic Republic of Iran
Open the strait. Stop letting it be closed.
Oh so Spurs are like...actually going down, huh?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/b...
Abolishing the Export-Import Bank used to be one of the nerdiest and most obscure of libertarian causes.
Objectively really funny if the market falls for mission accomplished
At the eve of reform, the Chinese central government controlled the production and pricing of only 791 products. The Soviet Gosplan, on the other hand, controlled 12 million....a story about differential institutional histories leading to differential outcomes...
At the age of 58, I’ve bought my first drill. Can it make me a new man? | Adrian Chiles
From 1776 to 2026: Adam Smith's lessons for the global economy reut.rs/3OXMQ8X
In his acceptance of the Islamic elements of Indian history and culture, Rajaji recognised that Muslims too have a right to contribute and belong to India’s national imagination, something that is vehemently denied by Hindutva politics, writes Niveditha K Prasad.
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The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.
A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.
Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.
Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
I have never really heard a good argument why this sort of grand theorization is good and why people can't just, like, moved to the quant and comp work that the rest of polisci does.
I do actually think it's a bad thing to cause a bunch of death and destruction for no clear reason and in the process bring about a global economic shock. I realise the Israeli and American governments feel differently, but this is my opinion.
Yes but French Reformed protestantism is closer to the UCC and the PCUSA than anything evangelical.