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...anizing Principle XXVII. Narcissism in the Boardroom XXVIII. Is Education a Public Good? XXIX. The Demise of the Work Ethic XXX. Foreign Direct In... ...t to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sense and direct experimentation would have yielded far b... ...se it is aesthetic and mathematically convenient. So, what are economic "theories" good for? Economic "theories" and narratives offer an organizin... ...uthor of "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Equally, it is true that manufactured goods, agricultural produce, money, and services are scarce. The... ...ofit and loss centers. Competition used to be extraneous to the firm - now it is commonly an internal affair among autonomous units within a loos... ...r assets as well. They end up charging borrowers the wrong interest rates or, more common, financing risky projects. Badly managed banks pay highe... ...red no more than hospitality, or an expression of gratitude, in another (France, or Italy). Corruption is discussed freely and forgivingly in one p...
...If a mother uses contraceptives in a manner intended to prevent pregnancy, it is as good as saying: " I do not want to sign this contract, I am doin... ...es who wish to die – do we have the right to terminate their miserable lives? The good part of life (and, therefore, the differential and meaningf... ... UNCERTAIN value- filled future life of the embryo. Always, preferring an uncertain good to a certain evil is morally wrong. But surely this is a q... ...s to provide goods and services (always at a personal cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software ... ...poses numerous and insurmountable philosophical problems. No one disputes the now common view that the main crime committed in aborting a pregnanc... ..., the quantity, quality, or functions are wrong, lacking, altogether missing". The common error - that we criticize the absent - is the outcome of ... ...itly state so in the preamble to the law. Other, mightier, countries have done so. Italy, for instance, modelled its Law number 287 dated 10/10/90... .... This, too, is a confabulation. The Weimar Republic gave birth to Adolf Hitler and Italy had almost 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest ... ...stria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contraceptives f...