denis bider

The subprime mortgage collapse for dummies

IQ and Global Inequality

What's wrong with this picture?

The doghouse: Seattle Women's Clinic

Nonexistent internet "sexual predator" threat

Learning a subject by catching the lie

Kosovo and thoughts on self-determination

Women overestimate inflation more than men

Poverty: it is an attitude

Wealth, income, consumption, or happiness?

Awful, awful progress

Low-end jobs in St. Kitts vs. Europe

The problem with reducing inequality

Fascist traffic fines in Finland

The law of unintended consequences

France to track "happines" instead of economic progress

Iceland reduces taxes to collect more

Illegality is what makes prostitution harmful

Programming needs Real Men

Taxation in pictures: Why FairTax makes sense

The world's cheapest car: growth in purchasing power

Big government as the law of the strongest

Private law in early Iceland

Art = entertainment

My predictions for the U.S. presidential election 2008

Doofuses against Ron Paul

Non-conformity and groups

The ethics of patent trolling

The free market at work: outsourcing surgery

Totally not like a corrupt, tyrannical empire

The truth about giving

What men are really looking for

Victims on Trial: The Everyday Business of Courts

The "liberal" (= socialist) worldview

The doghouse: Opera files antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Amazon strikes with low prices; the French strike back!

The cost of secure software

A small first step to WikiLaws?

Justly acquired endowments

How big should a minimal state be?

Taxing investment to spend it on consumption

WTC: the controlled demolition hypothesis

Ticket scalpers

The Economist misrepresents, butchers FairTax

Ekonomija po slovensko

The four anti-economic biases

Boycott Santa! Free the elves! Support your local toy store

Passive-aggressive economics

Amazon's "Kindle" book reading device

All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

The pitfalls of harnessing evolution

Idiot politicians - how the U.S. trade deficit is no catastrophe

Photos from a helicopter tour of St. Kitts

The weak versus the strong: the law of the strongest

Is curbing population growth necessary?

A cap-and-trade system to curb population growth

Libertarians claim victory in elections

Heterosis may explain Flynn effect, height paradox

"Journal of Geoclimatic Studies"

How evolution ignores our fanciful wishes

The well-adjusted occasionally smoke pot

Oil peaked, but uranium can last us 'tens of thousands of years'

Thoughts on development in St. Kitts, and some photos

The Russians

Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

Karl Dahlke and food additives

The fallacy of stagnating middle-class income

Cool stuff: skrbl

The Economist's blog on Newsweek happiness

Technical: OctAlloc improved

New photos since May

The curse of Europe

Technical: Heap allocation on multi-core systems

Lower taxes - higher growth

Who the U.S. is standing behind

My experience with religion

Women thinkers

Storm

You have to dress up to pay a parking ticket in St. Kitts

New York, the world's greatest socialist place

Inventive use of technology: CAPTCHAs used to digitise old books

Radiohead and flexible pricing for zero-marginal-cost goods

U.S. federal government violating people's liberties, as usual

Poor hungry children in Africa don't want your help

"The Truth About The Drug Companies"

How Bolsheviks ran the economy

The Forgotten Man: A new history of the great depression

U.S. withholding Iraq chlorine in cholera outbreak

Democracy, the tale of the slave

Deceased parrot had IQ of bushmen?

Studies find teaching abstinence ineffective

UK study finds: Internet has not increased problem gambling

EU court quashes Microsoft appeal

The doghouse: Hindu believers protest canal between India and Sri Lanka

The doghouse: Italian consumer associations protest pasta prices

TIME Magazine champions communist youth programme

Robert J. Barro's Democracy & Growth

Chavez bulldozing over Venezuelan economy

U.S. media fails to report Iran nuclear news?

Teen cracks AU$84 million porn filter in 30 minutes