Links

In conversation about various issues, I find myself saying often, “There’s a good article/website/podcast you should check out on this subject.  I’ll e-mail it to you if you’re interested.”  Sometimes I remember, sometimes I don’t.

This page is a repository of those links, grouped by subject.  I will do my best to keep it updated, but please let me know about any broken links.  Thanks!

Paying for Organs

• Working paper by Richard Epstein on organ shortages
• Podcast with Epstein on organ donation
• Stories by the Cato Institute and NPR about Iran’s system of compensation for organ donors

Grammar

• Walter Williams on The Cowardly Use of the Reflexive Pronoun ‘Myself’ in Place of ‘Me’ or ‘I’

Education

• Two Buses by Gary North

Fair Trade

• 2008 academic article on Fair Trade by M. Sidwell
• M.A. Clemens, “Smart Samaritans,” Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct 2007)
• A. Chambers, “Not So Fair Trade,” guardian.co.uk (12 Dec 2009)
• EconTalk podcast with Mike Munger (Duke University) on Fair Trade coffee (2007)

To Vote or Not to Vote

• Essay by Don Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
• Majorities against utility: Implications of the failure of the miracle of aggregation by Bryan Caplan

Recycling

• Mike Munger: “Think Globally, Act Irrationally”
• John Tierney: “Recycling is Garbage” (New York Times, June 30, 1996)

Outsourcing/Trade

• Benjamin Powell: In Defense of Sweatshops
• Radley Balko: Third-World Workers Need Western Jobs