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Buchanan, not to be confused with the 15th US President, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on public choice theory, particularly the notion that people everywhere, including those in government and not just those in the private sector, act in accordance with individual incentives more than they do in some idealized "public interest".
Ideas worth spreading indeed.

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Religious conversion amounts to a commitment to a belief system which purports to answer all questions with authority and finality. Whatever the attraction might be, such a commitment constitutes an abdication and betrayal of one's intellectual faculty. Better for all concerned to maintain an open mind, and to keep all commitments tentative and provisional.

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Earthlings can move in the direction of a better future for all by adopting the notion that secularism should be seen as neutral common ground for all, rather than as just another competing religion.

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The marginal revolution represented a tremendous advance in the science of Economics. It led to the subjective theory of value, the theory that put the final nail in the coffin of the labor theory of value due to its explanatory power.

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Blockchain is the technology that makes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies possible. Blockchain technology functions without a central authority, and the implications on account of this are profound.

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The Biodome project was an attempt to create a closed self-sustaining ecological system, with the goal of replicating the ecological system that had evolved on Planet Earth. The experiment began to fail quickly and it was terminated after just three years. What are the lessons?

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A look at the development and influence of Marxism on Planet Earth, from the Vulcan's-eye view.

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In modern times on Planet Earth, the practice of slavery has come to be regarded as morally abhorrent, and unjust to the victims of slavery; but there is an asterisk.