James' notepad

Advantages Minimal marginal cost Minimal financial risk - you can't print too many Lightweight. You can carry a thousand books in yo...

We have long had circumstantial evidence that racial differences in intelligence are partly genetic. We know that the races differ in averag...

The "Multiplier Effect" story goes like this: The state increases spending by £100. The person they pay this to saves 10% and spen...

Much of "social justice warrior" discourse is just rhetoric with the aim of getting the other person to shut up. The content is no...

Immigration is sometimes portrayed as solely a matter for the immigrant and his employer, or his landlord. Why should anyone else have the r...

Kin selection is not a special case of evolution, it is the main case. Genes are types not tokens, and if you can benefit more than two brot...

Natural rents cannot be eliminated; they must always accrue to someone. From the point of view of economics, it does not matter who. If th...