Muitos conservadores radicais usam e abusam de hipérboles linguísticas — Assassínio, para designar o suicídio assistido; eutanásia decidida pelo Estado, para designar a eutanásia a pedido de um paciente terminal. Assassínio de recém-nascido, para designar aborto de um embrião, ou ivg. Chamo-lhes conservadores radicais porque reduzem tudo a postulados absolutos, ignorando que, na vida real,… Read More »
Daniel Kahneman. An exceptional interview from this great scientist in psychology. By Tyler Cowan for the Mercatus Center. Kahneman gave us the Slow and Fast decision systems framework. Now he is studying Bias and Noise in decision making and trying to clarify the difference between them with the same rigour. Here he talks about bias,… Read More »
A top-level climate scientist shows why the predictions of climate models are not reliable for dictating public action and energy policy despite being useful for weather and climate research. This is a remarkable book that describes the major features of climate models and their limitations to reflect the termodynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere.… Read More »
As we face the UN climate circus where hysteria prevails it is important to reflect on the policies that the World needs. Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and former director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute, is a leading expert on climate and environmental policies. Lomborg does not question whether climate change… Read More »
We live in strange times when sensationalism prevails over reasoning. False memes spread faster than forest fires not only on social media but also on the maisntream media. Sometimes situations that can raise emotions are exploited for political ends and social media users innocently help them spread like a virus outbreak. In the last couple… Read More »
Critique of a FT article: Old economists can teach us new tricks by Rana Foroohar In her column of June 3 Mrs. Foroohar defends the ideas of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith that governments should have interventionist policies to correct market failures It is a pity to watch the FT, a historic supporter of… Read More »
Holcombe is Professor of Economics at Florida State University, past President of the Public Choice Society, and past President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. This an important and timely book. Political Capitalism is a distinct economic system and it is displacing Market Capitalism. It… Read More »
Alguns liberais vêm um eventual aprofundamento da integração europeia como contrário aos ideais liberais. Ora, eu acho que uma coisa não tem nada a ver com a outra. Mais, para Portugal, o facto de participar na construção europeia facilita o liberalismo, ou, melhor dizendo, coloca travões ao intervencionismo estatal. A Europa tanto pode ser liberal,… Read More »
Alguns liberais vêm um eventual aprofundamento da integração europeia como contrário aos ideais liberais. Ora, eu acho que uma coisa não tem nada a ver com a outra. Mais, para Portugal, o facto de participar na construção europeia facilita o liberalismo, ou, melhor dizendo, coloca travões ao intervencionismo estatal. A Europa tanto pode ser liberal,… Read More »
Part I here Recovering these vineyards is a long process that takes years. Several plots in this property have been recovered and replanted in the past 4 years (2016–2019). In the first part I documented the major works performed on the Southern slope. There are other areas that have been recovered besides that one. Mainly on… Read More »