Copyright 2013 The Future of Capitalism Fri, 17 May 2013 11:41:56 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Future of Capitalism :: Writings http://www.futureofcapitalism.com webmaster@futureofcapitalism.com (The Future of Capitalism) webmaster@futureofcapitalism.com en-us http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/jeb-bush-on-growth Fri, 17 May 2013 11:41:56 EST An essay by the former governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, about focusing the conservative movement on growth and opportunity is now up online: We have, for too long, been the party of "slow down." Today, we must be the party of "hurry up." We must stand for http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/5021/disability-nation Fri, 17 May 2013 07:16:00 EST NPR takes an extended, skeptical, and very well done look at the disability benefits system: The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined…. In Hale http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/richard-epstein-on-obamacare-3 Tue, 14 May 2013 08:46:08 EST Libertarian law professor Richard Epstein's column this week is about the difficulties in implementing ObamaCare. He writes: In this sorry state of the world, the only short-term mechanism that could stop the general blood-letting is a much-needed http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/commencement-advice-for-the-class-of-2013 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:09:45 EST The commencement speech members of the Class of 2013 probably won't hear, but that I wish had been given when I graduated, is the topic of my column this week. Please check it out at Reason here and at Newsmax here. http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/ryan-kristol-lecture Mon, 13 May 2013 15:11:00 EST The chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, gave the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute May 8. AEI has now posted Mr. Ryan's remarks as prepared for delivery, and they are worth a look for those interested in the http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/overpaid-college-presidents Mon, 13 May 2013 13:26:54 EST An economist at Ohio State University, Richard Vedder, has an article up at Bloomberg View about how to tell if a college president is overpaid. The New York Times has some numbers, including the $984,647 that the president of Ball State University http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/a-lemon-of-a-bill Fri, 10 May 2013 13:29:53 EST Sometimes what drives legislation in Washington is not partisanship or principle but just constituent service. An example appears to be the Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2013. The New York Times has a glancing mention of it in http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/irs-apologizes-for-targeting-conservative-groups Fri, 10 May 2013 12:45:13 EST How's this for an Associated Press/Washington Post headline: "IRS apologizes for inappropriately targeting conservative political groups in 2012 election." Well, at least they apologized. It will be interesting to see if they will reimburse the groups http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/they-came-for-crook Thu, 9 May 2013 12:43:05 EST Clive Crook's Bloomberg view column criticizing Paul Krugman, which we excerpted and linked earlier here, has elicited a ferocious response, including one from a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, Brad DeLong, who, as Mr. http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/smoking-at-the-met Thu, 9 May 2013 12:32:00 EST A New York Times dispatch on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual costume gala reports: Don't take this as approval, but you can tell it's a wild party when people who normally sneak away to smoke in the bathrooms are now smoking openly inside the http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/imagine-that Wed, 8 May 2013 10:27:23 EST From a New York Times article about the fall-off in recent performance by the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers: Kleiner has held a series of status-report meetings with its outside investors this year, acknowledging that recent fund http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/langone-barbour-talk-education Tue, 7 May 2013 14:51:57 EST "No matter how hard they try to intimidate us," the chairman of the Manhattan Institute, Paul Singer, said last night, "we will not back down." The event was the Institute's annual Alexander Hamilton Dinner in Midtown Manhattan. Those attempting the http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/richard-epstein-versus-the-pope Tue, 7 May 2013 08:23:33 EST Libertarian law professor Richard Epstein's latest column is up at the Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas website. In it, he writes about the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh in which hundreds of workers were killed: Bangladesh does not need http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2013/05/the-plausibility-plague Mon, 6 May 2013 17:17:10 EST The Plausibility Plague — the problem of pundits assuring readers that some outcome is impossible — is the topic of my column this week: Anyone who has ever suggested a bold policy adjustment, whether it is a change in monetary policy or the elimination http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/5008/big-hot-cheap-and-right Fri, 3 May 2013 17:08:00 EST The recent opening ceremonies for the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas were a reminder of, among other things, the outsize influence the Lone Star State has had on the rest of America. Texas gave the United States not only George W. Bush and