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17 Nov 2023, 5:01 am
Thanks to Virginia Postrel for the pointer.The post "NUMBER: Wisdom Above All Other" appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 6:03 am
Yes, there is such a risk (cf. my article on slippery slopes); indeed, as Virginia Postrel notes, Barring a new backlash, the long-term trajectory seems certain. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 11:06 am
This also reminded me that my longtime friend and recent guest-blogger, Virginia Postrel, had donated a kidney 15 years ago to her friend Sally Satel (who as it happens was cited in a post here last week). [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm
I much enjoyed Virginia's posts last week, and hope you did, too; in case you're interested, here are three videos Virginia has put together on the subject: [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 7:44 am
[Many textile merchants wound up as bankers. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
[Somebody had to invent those techniques you learned in elementary school.] [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
[Before industrial production, textiles could make excellent currency.] [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
[When there's business to be done over long distances, you don't want to depend on a scribe.] [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 5:01 am
[But any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.] [read post]
29 Nov 2020, 6:12 pm
Virginia Postrel has an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject but she imparts it with a touch as light as Penelope's at the loom. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 2:58 am
.'” [Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News via Virginia Postrel; earlier here, here, and here] Tags: hospitals, overwarning, safety [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
A new California anti-gig-economy law sponsored by a labor-organizer-turned-lawmaker is shaping up as a disaster for freelancers — exactly as Virginia Postrel and others predicted it would. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 2:59 am
Event barns booming as wedding venues, but some owners of traditional banquet halls want them to be subject to heavier regulation, as by requiring use of licensed bartenders [Stephanie Morse, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel] Protectionism and smuggling in ancien regime France: “Before Drug Prohibition, There Was the War on Calico” [Virginia Postrel] Thread unpacks “Big Ag bad, family farms good” platitudes [Sarah Taber] “An Oklahoma judge has… [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 2:52 am
Federal break regulations, electronic monitoring, artificial constraints on parking among factors [Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg] Antitrust debates cut across political spectrum [Daniel A. [read post]
3 Mar 2018, 7:00 am
” [Josh Barro] While, to paraphrase Trotsky, you may not be interested in trade war, trade war is interested in you [Axios on prospects for retaliation and economic damage] On the aluminum angle, Virginia Postrel in November. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 9:05 pm
” [AFP; France Culture interview with Sarah Chiche (in French); Le Monde open letter reprint (in French)] Tags: France, harassment law, hostile environment, workplace Virginia Postrel (and Catherine Deneuve) on harassment law is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 6:12 am
"There's More Than One Kind of Workplace Civility; The sexual harassment scandal is changing social norms; Let the new ones respect human variety": Online at Bloomberg View, Virginia Postrel has an essay that begins, "The #MeToo cascade has now claimed a federal judge. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 5:04 pm
Thank goodness, an angel, or as some readers know her, Virginia Postrel, heard about my predicament and gave me a kidney. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 10:17 am
There’s hope for stopping some of the regulations that the Obama administration began dropping in its last months before heading out the door, including the arguably worst of all, overtime for mid-level workers, now blocked by a federal judge in Texas [Kathy Hoekstra/Watchdog, McClatchy, Brittany Hunter/FEE; Virginia Postrel (“Not every workplace is, or aspires to be, the civil service. [read post]
17 Jul 2016, 9:05 pm
” [Steve Simpson] And speaking of fraud in policy advocacy (whatever that may mean) some varieties of it are plainly going to have no legal consequences whatsoever [Matt Welch channeling Virginia Postrel on California political class and high-speed rail] Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette says 40 anti-pipeline activists gathered and beat on the front door of his home for 30 minutes with his wife alone there [Detroit News] Pro-nuclear demonstrators blockade… [read post]
