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16 Nov 2006, 1:26 pm
Virginia Postrel: "He was a great social scientist, a brilliant popularizer and polemicist, and a mensch. [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 6:12 am
More: Second Hand Conjecture channels Virginia Postrel (via InstaPundit). [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]
14 Nov 2006, 6:20 pm
And recently, one of the most enthusiastic exponents of laissez-faire here has been Virginia Postrel. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 8:28 pm
His latest book, The Laws of Disruption, was a rare bright spot in a decade of terrible books about technology and revived a venerable tradition of dynamist classics, including his previous book as well as Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail and Virginia Postrel’s 1999 The Future and its Enemies. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 1:52 pm
Update: Delighted to have Virginia Postrel, of whom I am a big fan, join the comments and point us to her article at the Atlantic business channel. [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]
14 Sep 2011, 12:02 pm
H/T Virginia Postrel via Facebook. [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]
3 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
[Somebody had to invent those techniques you learned in elementary school.] [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]
23 Jan 2014, 8:15 pm
And don’t forget that next Wednesday I’ll be moderating a luncheon talk at Cato by another favorite author, Virginia Postrel, with powerhouse commenters Tyler Cowen and Sam Tanenhaus. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 12:31 pm
" And, from Virginia Postrel: "I will also note that private equity funds and hedge funds, which aren't subject to all this wonderful regulation, appear to be doing better than the rest of the financial world. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:17 am
.” ANOTHER UPDATE: Virginia Postrel thinks I’m unfairly influened by the NYT’s spin: “It’s actually about young, aspiring literary intellectuals DOING THEIR OWN THING, using the web to write and publish the kind of work they want to do. [read post]
24 Aug 2014, 9:05 pm
Times via Virginia Postrel] Tweet Tags: colleges and universities, Fifth Circuit, NYC, schools, trademarksBack to school roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 9:00 pm
It's extraordinarily disappointing to see Reason, once the magazine of Virginia Postrel and Walter Olson, turn into a defender of the worst elements of paleo-libertarianism. [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]
30 Aug 2010, 3:23 pm
I borrow the term dynamism from Virginia Postrel, who contrasted the conflicting worldviews of dynamism and stasis so eloquently in her 1998 masterpiece, The Future and Its Enemies. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 7:44 am
[Many textile merchants wound up as bankers. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 2:48 pm
But Daniels’ references to Mancur Olson’s Rise and Decline of Nations and Virginia Postrel’s The Future and Its Enemies show that his interest in libertarianism and political economy is genuine and serious. [read post]
