>An Introduction to the Modern School Movement

>Peruse this excellent website, Friends of the Modern School, to learn of the revolutionary educational doctrines being promoted in the early twentieth century. Spanish anarchist Franscisco Ferrer provided the intellectual foundations, with Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger, among many others, getting involved. Irony Central informs us that the most radical rejecters of the state schooling […]

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>A Pic to Ponder

>The figure on top is the infamous British art critic and thinker John Ruskin impaling a money grubbing darkie, the very embodiment of what the “dismal science” – economics – meant to Ruskin. The tag “dismal science” actually refers to the threat that economics posed to the old order – hierarchy, natural slaves and masters […]

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>Russell Roberts’ "Treasure Island: The Hidden Elegance of Comparative Advantage"

>Over at EconLog, Russ Roberts introduces the concept of Comparative Advantage by telling the fictional story of two married couples who shipwreck upon the same island. Each couple, together, encompass differing skill levels for the same sets of activities. In this case two: Fishing and collecting water. The second couple to land upon the Island, […]

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