Notes On Liberty:
(see all my posts here)I had a splendid month on Notes (especially April), where 3 of my 4 articles were the most read for the months; my Mr. Darcy piece even hit a #7 (and climbing!) over the last year.
- [1] 'The Nonsensical Meaning of Sustainability', where I argue against the environmentalist notion of processes necessarily being "Sustainable" is pretty silly.
- This piece was re-printed at The Federalist Forum.
- Echoed at Rational Review News Digest.
- [2] 'Let's Find Out – or the Power of Reference', espousing the virtue of measuring, of dearing to have a look, of always comparing numbers.
- This was featured and recommended on the Financial Times blog Alphaville.
- [3] 'Mr. Darcy's Ten Thousand a Year', one of my favourite pieces of all time – illustrating the 18th and 19th century use of financial planning as seen through Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
- This was recently translated for the Mexican literary magazine Letras Libres and published with the amazing title: 'Las diez mil libras al año del señor Darcy: una lecture económica de Orgullo y Prejucio'.
- Mentioned and discussed in the Mexican newspaper Milenio.
- It was also featured on economist Brad DeLong's blog just a week ago.
- and discussed on the blog The Monevator.
- [4] 'Two Financial Instruments that made the Modern World', a kind of follow-up to my Mr. Darcy piece where I illustrated exactly how Bills of Exchange worked and how money was moved from London to Amsterdam via netting of outstanding merchant credits. The piece hasn't been picked up anywhere (as far as I know...?), but at least I received tons of praise on Twitter
- [5] 'A Short Note on Fraudulent Banking', a little entry into the FRB=Fraud debate where I responded to erroneous counter-arguments to what I (mistakenly) thought were pretty original points of my own.
American Institute for Economic Research
(all my pieces here)- [6] 'Safe Banks Are Probably Not What You Want', another Joakim-classic: teaching economics (oh, well - finance) through the use of popculture: this time through the movie Margin Call. One of the most read articles on AIER that week.
- [7] 'Yes, You Can Sell What You Do Not Own', preceeding the 'Short Note' piece above, I laid out two well-established phenomena (insurance + airline overbooking) that effectively functions as fractional reserve banking in the real economy.
Mises Institute
(all my posts here)- [8] 'What if Climate Warriors Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are?', where I laid out how so-called Cat bonds (Catastrophe bonds) work and how environmental activists could pool their money and in true effective altruism-manner, actually contribute to limit the damage from climate change.
- Reprinted in TheLead.com
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