1. Virginia Postrel has lots of great new posts.
2. Robin Hanson on which beliefs are heritable.
3. David Horowitz’s disastrous academic "Bill of Rights" fails in Pennsylvania.
4. The Democratic Congress-to-be is already rejecting two free trade deals.
5. Talk of congestion road pricing for Manhattan.
Seattle just finished an experiment in road usage pricing, and the results were like a textbook description of incentives influencing behavior. People drove less, especially during rush hour
I’d like to hear more about Mr. Cowen’s opinion on the academic Bill of Rights. My state, Ohio, recently (relatively) defeated the bill during my last year at university. There was a quiet debate on campus about what should or shouldn’t be done in response to it.
4. Appears to be all good from my perspective, although in theory I consider myself to be somewhat of a free trader (it seems necessary to point out that free-trade != free-trade deal, although that should be obvious).
I could go on and explain my reasoning poorly, but MY in http://www.matthewyglesias.com/archives/2006/11/bothand_not_eitheror/ tgets the basics of my argument better than I would.
Although theoretically free trade can lift all boats, there is no incentive for those that most directly benefit to share those benefits unless they have to.
I would probably also just implement a unilateral free trade agreement with the world.
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