Publications
“Exact science … is not an exact science. The machine simply does not operate as expected,” David Bowie said as Nikola Tesla in the movie The Prestige. While this quote referenced one of…
The past few years have been trying times for America’s farmers and ranchers. As President Trump’s trade war with China drags on with no end in sight, the outlook for the American agricultural…
Whether central banks are or should be or could be “independent” of the rest of the government is a key question in political economics and political finance. Given the great power of the…
Judges are less partisan than you’ve heard.
The party identification of a member of Congress might be a helpful heuristic for understanding his or her leaning on any given issue, but the same does…
SACRAMENTO – There was a saying, which sprung from the French Revolution and was used during the Russian Revolution: “No enemies on the Left.” It was the idea that left-wing revolutionaries…
Of course Vaclav Smil is correct that Moore’s Law-type growth rates of 35 per cent per year will not go on forever, however astonishing the record so far (“Infinite growth is a pipe dream”,…
“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” seems like a straightforward equation made for simpler times. Indeed, the phrase was made popular by the 1970s cop show “Baretta” and even…
July’s Democratic presidential debates highlighted a number of important national issues. From health care to economic inequality, candidates offered many purported solutions. The vast majority of…
Few governors request state agencies to revise and reduce their budgets when the economy is humming, but Brian Kemp isn’t your average governor. He recently sent instructions to his agency chiefs…
As the cliché goes, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I’m a gun-rights supporter and own some legally purchased and properly stored firearms, and they are no threat to anything…