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My take on our first(#31) pick:
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A Little Love?
The Suns have a multitude of options this offseason. They have three first round picks, a second round pick, a lot of cap space to sign a free agent or two, and young moveable assets. Before we get into the bulk of this article let's address what is on everybody's mind these days, Kevin Love. Kevin Love is a great fit on paper for PHX, he is a star power forward who can stretch the floor and rebound in bunches, two things the Suns need. Watching his outlet passes to Dragic, Green and Bledsoe would be a dream come true. The best case scenario for the Suns this offseason would to trade a couple draft picks and a player or two for Kevin Love without having to trade the Slash Brothers. The biggest problem is getting Kevin Love to sign a max extension. So for the sake of this article we are going to assume Kevin Love is unwilling to sign an extension with the Suns, forcing the Suns to look in another direction.
Curent Roster and Salaries
Before looking elsewhere the Suns need to evaluate what they have. Take a look at who is on contract and who has team/player options.
Guaranteed Contracts:
Goran Dragic $7.50m
Alex Len $3.65m
Gerald Green $3.50m
Markieff Morris $2.99m
Marcus Morris $2.94m
Miles Plumlee $1.17m
Archie Goodwin $1.11m
Michael Beasley $0.78m (Not on Active Roster)
Total: $23.54m
Free Agents:
Channing Frye $6.80m (Player Option)
Shavlik Randolph $1.23m (Non Guaranteed)
Ish Smith $0.99m (Non Guaranteed)
Dionte Christmas $0.81m (Non Guaranteed)
Eric Bledsoe (Restricted Free Agent)
P.J. Tucker (Restricted Free Agent)
Now let's assume the Suns don't pick the contracts of Randolph, Smith, and Christmas to make room for other players.
Cap Holds:
Eric Bledsoe $6.57m
Draft Picks $3.70m
P.J. Tucker $1.15m
Total: $11.42m
The projected Salary Cap for the 2014-2015 season is $63.2m.
If Frye accepts his player option the Suns cap space is: $21.44m.
If Frye declines his player option, which he would do if he wants a longer guaranteed contract, the Suns cap space is: $28.24m.
Now that is a lot of money the Suns can spend. Obviously a good chunk of it will go to Bledsoe. But if the Suns can sign a free agent before they have to match an offer for Bledsoe then they can still re-sign Bledsoe even if it goes over the salary cap.
A max contract for Bledsoe would be app. $14.2m a year.
A reasonable salary for PJ Tucker would be app. $4.15m a year, any more and I think we should let him walk and try to sign a different free agent.
If Frye declines and wants a long term contract with the Suns, he should be willing to take a pay cut, if the Suns want to retain Frye they should look at a deal close to 3yrs $9m. If someone else offers him something higher I don't believe we should follow suit. His play has been too inconsistent.
Now let us move on to one of the most exciting times of the year for a lottery team, the draft.
Draft Prospects for the Suns:
via threepointlayup.files.wordpress.com Nik Stauskas
The Suns have a total of four draft picks in the upcoming 2014 NBA Draft. They have the 14th, 17th, 27th, and 50th pick. For the purpose of this analysis, we are going to assume the Suns do not trade any of their picks. Although that is a very viable option for the Suns. The Suns could upgrade at almost any position besides PG. Even with PG being their strongest position they will need a good backup for when Dragic and Bledsoe rest. Archie Goodwin is more of a shooting guard, than a point guard.
Prospects for 14th and 18th Pick:
Zach LaVine 6'5 UCLA
If I could use one word to describe LaVine it would be "Athlete." LaVine's max vertical of 41.5" isn't the only thing to get hyped about though. LaVine is a very young player who has plenty of room to grow, he is only 19 yrs old and boiling with potential. I have been high on this guy ever since the end of the season for the Suns. LaVine has all the makings of becoming a star in the league. He stood out at the NBA Combine, even though the top prospects did not go or compete in the drills. He only averaged 9.4 ppg, 2.5 rpg, and 1.8 apg last season for UCLA, but he played limited minutes as a third string guard. He would thrive in the Suns uptempo game and could be a very good player in the future. If he is still on the board at 14 the Suns should choose him. If they pass on him at 14 and he slides to 18 the Suns would be out of their mind at the point not to take someone with his kind of potential. He may be raw and a bit of a project, but it will be hard for the suns to pass up on his potential.
Nik Stauskas 6'6 Michigan
There's going to be a lot of fans putting their hands up in the shape of a three if Stauskas comes to Phoenix. This man can shoot the ball. He is most likely the best shooter in the draft. He has also improved his overall game showing he can get to the free-throw line and finish at the rim. He is also an undervalued athlete with a 35.5" max vertical. He averaged 17.5 ppg while shooting 50% from two point range and an incredible 44% from three. The Suns could always use the extra shooting. Stauskas could put up 15 ppg his rookie year, just on threes alone from kick outs from Bledsoe and Dragic. His weakness however is defense. If the Suns staff can instill a team defensive mentality in him, he should be fine. But don't expect him to be a great one on one defender. If both LaVine and Stauskas are on the board at 14 I'd go with Stauskas and hope LaVine dropped to 18.
Adreian Payne 6'10 Michigan State
Payne is one of the most NBA ready players in the draft, however it seems he is already close to his ceiling, with him being 23 yrs old. Payne is a fantastic athlete who can electrify the rim and stretch the floor with his shooting ability. He averaged 16.4 ppg on 53.5% shooting from two and 42.3% from three. He also has good size for an NBA PF, 6'10 with a 7'4 wingspan and a 9'1 standing reach. Expect to see him block a fair amount of shots with that type of length. He would fit well in Hornacek's system. Payne can run the floor for transition buckets and be a stretch four while running the pick and pop with Dragic. He could possibly replace Frye and should be an upgrade from Frye with better rebounding, defense, and athleticism. It does however, take Payne a little longer to get his shot off, which could pose as an issue. Another weakness which, he cannot help is his learning disorder. It takes him longer to learn things than most people but he is a hard worker and will hopefully be able to pick up NBA offensive and defensive schemes. The Suns can hope to draft Payne with the 18th pick. But no one would blame the Suns for drafting him with the 14th.
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Dario Saric 6'10 Croatia
Saric is a risk, as are all international players. Without being able to see him play against top competition in the States brings some questions but his upside and what we've seen from him so far are enough to draft him in the lottery. Chances are Dario will not drop to 14 but if he does the Suns should draft him. He is a 6'10 point forward who can score, pass, and shoot. Although, his shooting isn't always consistent it could improve in the NBA. The Suns could draft Saric and keep him overseas a year as a draft and stash type pick, so that they don't have too many young players on the roster to develop. Saric works hard on defense and has good instincts which, should cover up his wingspan of only 6'10 and limited athletic ability. He will need to bulk up if he is expected to guard fours in the league. He would fit well in the Suns system and would add some needed assists for the 29th worst rated assists per game Suns.
Honorable Mentions:
Gary Harris 6'3 Michigan State - Great defender, good shooter. Limited size as a two guard and will probably be taken before 14.
Rodney Hood 6'8 Duke - Great shooter, NBA ready body, average athlete, weak defender. Draft range 12-20.
James Young 6'6 Kentucky - Good shooter, large wingspan of 7'0, decent jumping ability, lacks quickness, weak off the dribble, young. Draft range 12-24.
Doug McDermott aka McBuckets 6'8 Creighton - Great shooter, underrated leaper, limited athletic ability, tweener, weak defender, oh and he gets buckets. Will probably be drafted before 14.
Tyler Ennis 6'2 Syracuse - Pure point guard, great passer, killer instinct, decent shooter, below average athlete, weak finisher. Draft projection 12-20. Suns could draft him at 18 if available to be a backup point guard.
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Prospects for 27th Pick
Kyle Anderson 6'9 UCLA
Anderson is a point forward who would help the Suns with their assist problem they had last year. Anderson has good size at 6'9 and crazy length 7'3 wingspan, a good feel for the game, is a good rebounder, and has improved his shooting. He averaged 14.6 ppg while shooting 48% from both two and three point range. He also averaged 8.8 rpg and 6.5 apg, showing he is a constant triple double threat every night. He however lacks athleticism and came into the combine with 13.4% body fat. He tends to be turnover prone and is a weak defender. The main question for any NBA team is what role he would play. If he drops all the way to 27 because of these questions, the Suns would be happy to pick him up as the best player available. A good coach such as Hornacek would be able to fit him into his system. Even if it's in the D-league for a year.
Shabazz Napier 6'1 UCONN
The Suns would be looking for Napier to run the backup PG position and be a spark plug off the bench. Napier is a great scorer and leader. He led his Huskies to the National championship his senior year. He is a very good jump shooter, 40.5% last season from deep. He will need to become a better passer if he wants to thrive in the league. His biggest weakness is his size with a lack of explosiveness. I'd be surprised if the Heat don't take him at 26 right before the Suns at 27.
Clint Capela 6'11 Switzerland
Draft and Stash.... Draft and Stash is the answer here if the Suns pick Capela with their 27th pick. He has a great size and athleticism. He is a good rebounder and his length, 7'4 wingspan helps with that. He has huge potential defensively and offensively as a finisher around the rim. He has a weak jump shot however and takes way to many of them. He also tends to have a bad attitude and body language. Leave him overseas for a year to clear up a roster space and let him mature physically and mentally. Suns could use the size on the inside and defensive presence that Capela would bring.
Honorable Mentions:
T.J. Warren 6'8 NC State - Gets buckets from anywhere on the floor, needs to improve jumper, decent defender, bad passer. Draft Projection 15-30.
P.J. Hairston 6'4 Texas Legends (D-League) - Excellent scorer, good shooter, NBA ready, defensive potential, work ethic in question. Will probably be drafted before 27th.
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Prospects for 50th Pick
Jahii Carson 5'11 Arizona State
Would have been a first round pick in 2013, but the draft is a lot deeper in 2014 and he will probably drop to the second round for his lack of size. He is the shortest player in the 2014 draft. He also has one of the highest verticals, 43.5", to try to make up for his size. He improved his shooting last year bringing it up to 39.1% from three. He will be one of the fastest guards in the league and will be tough to guard because of his quickness. He will be at a disadvantage defensively because of his height. He also needs to work on his passing skills. If the Suns get a chance to insert Jahii as their backup point guard with the 50th pick, it would be a dream come true for Jahii who grew up in Phoenix. The Suns also stated Jahii had a good workout with them and they were impressed with his shooting. Fast is his game, and so is the Suns.
Isaiah Austin 7'1 Baylor
I may be bias because I saw him play in the same tournament I was in, in Utah while he was still in high school, but I think Austin is one of the best players to draft in the second round. He is a stretch big who can knock down the three and defend the rim, averaging 3.2 blocks per game last season. Austin needs to bulk up to compete with the bangers down low in the NBA and needs to become more active on the boards, averaging only 5.6 rpg for a seven footer isn't good. He does have good handles and touch for a big man. Austin is blind in one eye, but it hasn't seen to effect him so far. He is a bit of project as are most big men going into the NBA but if he can bulk up he should be a solid center for years to come.
Thanasis Antetokounmpo 6'6 Delware (D-League)
His brother is the Greek Freak Giannis Antetokounmpo. Although he doesn't have the same height as Giannis he shares the same length, Thanasis has a 7'0 wingspan. He also is good leaper with a 39.5" max vertical. Thanasis is good defender with a lot of potential, although he loses focus at times. He is the hardest working man on the court at all times and that was evident at the combine, where he also showed some shooting potential. He is raw offensively but should improve in time. Thanasis would thrive in transition with the Suns. He could also be the steal of the second round for whoever drafts him.
I would be happy with any of the three I mentioned at the 50th pick as they all could be valuable assets to the Suns Organization.
Now it's about time we get to free agency.
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Free Agents the Suns Should Go After
Gordon Hayward 6'8 SF RA
He is the offensive SF the Suns could really use. He can create his own shot and attack the basket while shooting a high percentage from the line and three. Although his percentage took a dip last year they should go back up when he doesn't have to be primary option offensively. Hayward averaged 16.2 ppg, 5.1 rpg, and 5.2 apg, very solid numbers for a small forward. He should fit into the Suns uptempo offense nicely. The only problem is that he is a restricted free agent. The Suns would have to offer him a big enough contract that the Utah Jazz would not match, without overpaying for him. Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek used to coach Hayward in Utah as well, and seems to love his game. Seeing Hayward in purple and orange next year isn't very far fetched. I think $12m to $14m a year would be fair deal for Hayward.
Lance Stephenson 6'5 SG UR
Yes, Lance's antics can get on people's nerves and there is a possibility of him being a locker room problem, but his play on the court is too good to overlook. He had the most triple doubles in the league this year and improved in practically every asset of his game. Lance is a great defender, and very pesky, just ask Lebron James. I know I wouldn't want someone blowing in my ear while playing basketball. If Lance matures over the offseason a bit the Suns should take a good hard look at his 13.8 ppg, 7.2 rpg, and 4.6 apg. Projected $8m to $10m a year.
Trevor Ariza 6'8 SF UR
Three and D is Ariza's game. He would be a step up from P.J. Tucker. If we can get Ariza I say we let Tucker go. Ariza can do everything Tucker can but is taller, more athletic, a better shooter, and better overall offensively. We will have to pry him away from the Wizards who have openly talked about re-signing Ariza. Ariza would fit perfectly in the Suns uptempo system while locking down on defense. Projected $10m a year.
Honorable Mentions:
Carmelo Anthony 6'8 SF UR (Early Termination) - If the Suns want a superstar who can fill up the stat sheet with points and rebounds, this is their guy. The only question is if he can gel with the Suns system of two ball dominate guards. If he can the suns are an instant title contender upon signing him. Expect a max deal.
Greg Monroe 6'11 C RA - Great rebounder and low post presence. However, he is not much of a defensive asset. Monroe is a great player, the only reason he is not on the top of the list is the question of if he fits with the system. The Suns would also have to pay a lot to get him away from the Pistons.
Luol Deng 6'8 SF UR - Deng is a great defender, shooter, and teammate. He is an all-star type player, but he is getting older. The Suns should absolutely sign him if they cannot get Hayward, Ariza, or Lance. The biggest issue with Deng I have is that he will demand too much money. If the Suns can somehow sign him for $10m a year, do it. They need a defensive SF who can score as well.
Jordan Hill 6'10 PF/C UR - If you can ignore the off court issues, Hill could be a valuable backup big who can rebound in bunches.
Anthony Morrow 6'5 SG UR/Player Option - He shoots lights out. Cheap contract.
The Suns have so many options this offseason and with General manager Ryan McDonough at the helm of the decision making the Suns are sure to find a diamond either in free agency, the draft, or a trade....Kevin Love? No matter what the choice the Phoenix Suns future is looking bright.
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Take-Two has renewed its trademark for Agent, a Rockstar-developed game that was announced back in 2007 as a PS3-exclusive and still has yet to see the light of day.
The publisher filed for a renewal on July 18th, and it appears the style of the logo will remain unchanged. "The mark consists of the word "AGENT" with the shape of a handgun comprising the internal section of the letter "G"," according to the filing. It is an awfully cool logo.
Are you still holding out hope that Agent will one day be released? Who knows, maybe it will end up being a PlayStation 4-exclusive.
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Archived from the live broadcast, this Mises University lecture was presented at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.
Archived from the live broadcast, this Mises University lecture was presented at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.
Archived from the live broadcast, this Mises University lecture was presented at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Insofar as mainstream economics may be said to make moral-philosophical assumptions, it rests overwhelmingly on a consequentialist-utilitarian foundation. When mainstream economists say that an action is worthwhile, they mean that it is expected to give rise to benefits whose total value exceeds its total cost (that is, the most valued benefit necessarily forgone by virtue of this particular action's being taken). But nearly always the economists make no attempt to evaluate as part of their benefit-cost calculus any costs that might be incurred as a result of how and by whom the action is taken.
Often they verge on the assumption that benefits and costs exist apart from those who take the action, even though this assumption clashes with the foundational principles of their science. Thus, in benefit-cost calculations, economists often attach a value to certain expected benefits (e.g., the dollar value of lives saved as a result of a safety regulation) and compare this value to the dollar outlays by the government that imposes and enforces the regulation and by the private parties who are compelled to comply with it, often at great private expense.
I cannot recall, however, ever seeing a benefit-cost computation that attaches any cost valuation to the loss of freedom by the regulated parties. It is as if it matters not at all that an action is mandated, as opposed to freely chosen. Freedom itself is, in effect, considered worthless, and hence its loss entails no sacrifice regarded as worthy of receiving weight in the calculation.
On the basis of such procedures, at least in a pro forma sense, countless regulations and laws have been imposed on the public willy-nilly. Apart from the many questions that might be raised even in the context of the usual benefit-cost study, one who values freedom cannot help but be struck by how entire societies have been overwhelmed by suffocating regulations and by how drastically people's freedoms have been curtailed, all under the presumption that each drop of this deluge constituted a net improvement in social well-being. Insofar as the trampled freedom is concerned, the motto seems to have been: nothing valued, nothing lost.
The Liberty and Ethics Center at Lindenwood University is headed by Prof. Rachel Douchant, a former Mises Fellow and Mises U alumnus. This year, the Center welcomed Robert Higgs for its keynote address:
Higgs was also interviewed for the Center's video series, Free Exchange:
Although the statement is commonly attributed to Mark Twain, his friend Charles Dudley Warner was the one who said, "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Regardless of who said it, the statement was and remains fairly accurate.
In contrast, we might observe, "Everybody complains about the economy, and a great many unfortunately try to do something about it." Economic policy is the name given to such attempts by government officials, their consultants, and their contractors. For the general public, economic policy is a tragic matter because regardless of what the man in the street may think, the government's actions almost invariably make economic life worse than it would have been had the policy makers kept their hands off of it.
Despite a gigantic outpouring of talking, writing, and studying, at least 90 percent of this yammering is worthless, and much of it is positively harmful. Look, I'm not going to lie to you: I'm an economist. I'm not bragging about this professional status; it's simply a fact. If I were a plumber or a carpenter, I'd admit being one just as readily. Now, tens of thousands of other people also say that they are economists, but scarcely any of them is so in more than a nominal sense. They may have a Ph.D. in economics, yet it remains the case that their ideas about economics are no better than your average crackpot's. The overwhelming part of what people learn in graduate school in economics is mathematical mumbo-jumbo whose substance boils down—if it boils down to anything, rather than simply evaporating—to what F. A. Hayek called the pretense of knowledge. In short, these "experts" are ill-educated fakers. My best guess is that no more than a couple thousand real economists exist in the entire world, and I would not be surprised if my estimate were too high by a thousand.
Many of my friends think of the state as stupid, and therefore an easy foe for determined dissidents to defeat. I have a different view.
For one thing, the state has always had ready resort to those with cutting-edge expertise in the private sector, from the days when it hired Eli Whitney to manufacture muskets with interchangeable parts to our own time, when it hires Oracle, Microsoft, and a host of other high-tech companies to help it spy on us. History has shown that no task is so revolting and criminal that the state cannot attract private contractors to carry it out.
Moreover, even if the private-sector geniuses refuse to sign up, the state can, whenever push comes to shove, simply send its goons to smash your door and haul you off to one of its dungeons. Such actions, especially if taken on a wide scale, have a marvelously educational effect on dissidents and would-be dissidents.
Because the state has the capacity to raise enormous amounts of money and to bamboozle the great mass of the public, it can employ these two tactics — outsourcing of operations and use of raw force — pretty much as it finds optimal. It is a mistake to underestimate the state simply because its visible face consists of seemingly idiotic politicians.
Anarchists are constantly tempted to respond to their critics in a way that verges on the tu quoque fallacy — in children's playground lingo, "it takes one to know one" — because often a critic's claim about the horrors that anarchy would bring is essentially a claim that it would bring about a condition that already exists under the rule of states. Why the warlords would take over, the critic claims. But what are states but warlord organizations in their most developed expression? Why we'd have no protection against thieves and marauders, the critic claims. But today's police provide no such protection. They are either marauders themselves or, at their best, worthless note takers who show up long after a private crime has been committed and pretend to go about bringing the wrongdoer to justice. But there would be no justice under anarchy, the critic declares. Such claims ignore the absence of real justice today in the state's so-called criminal justice system, a machine for punishing people who have violated no one's natural rights and dishing out arbitrary and senseless punishments through plea bargains extracted from hapless victims caught in the state's unjust web of lies and arrogant pretense.
Of course, no sensible anarchist expects that the abolition of the state will create heaven on earth. Such an anarchist understands full well that even the best feasible form of human social organization will be vulnerable to any number of crimes and other wrongs — after all, we're dealing with real flesh-and-blood human beings here. But under anarchy, voluntary cooperation, peace, and justice have, so to speak, at least a fighting chance, which is one helluva lot more than we can say about social life under state domination.
Thanks to Contrpoints for the French translation of Robert Higgs's article that appeared here.
See: Les bases de la domination étatique et de la soumission populaire
Do you remember the Sixties? I do, vividly. The latter half of that decade was the worst time of my life so far as the enveloping social and political conditions were concerned: endless, horrifying war; unraveling civil rights movement; urban riots and violence; political assassinations and mass protests; university upheavals and bombings; police brutality at every turn; political leaders—the cosmically offensive LBJ above all, with Nixon a close second—so foul that one had to avert his eyes from their hideous visage and pinch his nose to keep out their stench of death and moral putrefaction.
Yet amid all of this social and political horror, the time was pervaded by a bizarre hopefulness, especially among young people. Caught up with one basis or another for optimism and personal commitment—New Leftism, anti-Establishmentism, communitarianism, hippy love-harmony, anti-militarism, anti-imperialism, and so on—many of us became convinced that the future would be better, that never again would we be fooled by the "new boss," that in some fundamental way we were living through an irreversible revolution. Before long, of course, most of these youthful optimists ran off the rails into violence, drug-dazed escapism, abandonment of social engagement for more personal goal-seeking, and a thousand other forms of personal accommodation to the defeat of all attempts at sweeping societal transformation.
Thus, the new world we anticipated and worked to create never arrived, and so we went on to make our separate ways through a world that in its essentials remained the same as the old: war after war; political corruption that stinks to heaven's heights; spiritual anxiety and rootlessness; fascination with culturally superficial and ephemeral foolishness.
We now have, of course, some things that we lacked then—personal computers, the Internet, the Web, and an abundance of electronic gizmos—and some of us fancy that these things will allow people to congeal in the creation of a truly better world. I have my doubts. The Establishment is stronger than ever: more pervasive and inescapable in its surveillance; more lethal and invasive in its police presence; more lavishly funded; stronger in its ability to lock hundreds of millions in helpless dependency; and no less ruthless than it was then. Against these immense forces of the Establishment, we can only send, at most, a few million mostly youthful optimists, unorganized and mutually quarrelsome, easily distracted by the vibrations of the latest tweet or twerk. This scenario is not a promising portent of genuine revolution. What I saw and experienced and participated in during the Sixties had much greater promise and, for a decade or so, much wider participation, yet it fizzled out, leaving only marginal changes for the better (the major exception being the elimination of the draft, which was truly important). The idea that today's dissidents will have more success strikes me as the sheerest wishful thinking.
Also posted at The Beacon.
In recent years, many people, at least in certain circles, have become familiar with Bastiat's broken-window fallacy and have come to recognize that Keynesian macroeconomic policy amounts to little more than this fallacy writ large.
Perhaps even more important is what we might call the unbroken-leg fallacy. This is the presumption, which underlies all sorts of state intervention, both macroeconomic and microeconomic, in the market system, that the participants in markets are perfectly capable of acting more productively but, owing to various "market failures," are not doing so on their own and require state action to repair the situation. The fallacy is that this reasoning completely ignores the countless ways in which the state's own intrusions and engagements in the economic system in effect "break the legs" of private-sector actors by distorting prices (including interest rates), penalizing productive actions, and subsidizing destructive actions. Having invaded the economic order like the proverbial bull in a China shop, the state's kingpins, functionaries, and intellectual bootlickers then have the chutzpah to blame "market failures" for the wreckage they themselves have created — an ever-changing hodgepodge of bad incentives, misdirected state efforts, and ominous fears about further unsettling state actions to come.
Owing to the built-in feedback that occurs in a genuinely free, profit-and-loss-based market system, people do not systematically err and fail in their multifaceted efforts to coordinate their own economic activities — unless, that is, the state runs amok, breaking their legs willy-nilly and crippling the operation of the price system. Economic analysis and policy-making that disregard this reality rest on a fallacious foundation.
Familiarity may indeed, as the saying goes, breed contempt, but it also breeds a sort of somnolence. People who have never known anything other than a certain state of affairs—even an extraordinarily problematic state of affairs—have a tendency not to notice it at all, to relate it, so to speak, as if they were sleepwalking through it. Such is the situation of modern people in relation to the state. They have always known it, and they take it completely for granted, regarding it as one might regard the weather: whether it brings rain or sunshine, lightning bolts or soothing spring breezes, it is always there, an aspect of nature itself. Even when it proves destructive, its destruction still qualifies as something akin to "acts of God."
I've just finished reading Leo Tolstoy's remarkable book The Kingdom of God Is Within You. This was written in Russian and completed in 1893, but the Russian censors forbade its publication. It circulated in unpublished form in Russia, however, and was soon translated into other languages and published abroad. It had substantial influence on the course of history, perhaps most of all because of its influence on Gandhi.
The book is odd in several respects. In a purely literary sense, it is by no means a masterpiece, as Tolstoy's great novels, written earlier in his life, were. In places it reads more like a set of notes for a book than as a polished work. For example, it contains many very long block quotations and much unnecessary repetition. However, Tolstoy's mastery as a writer still shines in the brilliance of some of his formulations, especially in the second half of the book.
Odd, too, is Tolstoy's own curiously uneven command of different aspects of his subject. In regard to the nature and operation of the state and the sociology of human interrelations in the socio-political order, Tolstoy's clear-eyed insights cut to the quick. He makes even an analyst such as James Buchanan, who complained about people's "romantic" views of politics and the state, seem utterly romantic. In contrast, Tolstoy's understanding of economics was abysmal and leads him into foolish notions of the equivalence between state acts and capitalist acts. He seems also to have given no thought to what the consequences would be if his communistic preferences about the distribution of property were adopted in practice. Although he had excellent insights into the role of (what I call) ideology in the maintenance of the state-dominated social order, he entertained a view of how the dominant ideology was changing and would continue to change that seems to me completely lacking in contemporary evidence and utterly at variance with everything we now know about how ideology did change during the past century or so. He greatly overestimated the hold that Christian morality had on the souls of people in the West at the time he was writing, not to speak of later, even less Christian times.
Tolstoy is one of the most important Christian anarchists in history, yet his views on Christianity were anything but typical. For example, he regarded the various Christian churches as totally corrupt and as the propagators of false and spurious doctrines that only helped the dominant elites to retain their hold on political, social, and political power while oppressing the great mass of the people. Self-serving members of the upper crust were, in his eyes, willing to avert their eyes from the truth, especially the Truth of Christianity as expressed above all by the Sermon on the Mount. This sermon, indeed, seems to have amounted to not only the heart of Tolstoy's Christianity, but to the bulk of it, as well. For him, Christianity was above all a commitment to love others as one's self and to abstain from the use of force and violence, even in resistance to evil or in self-defense. Thus, as a Christian anarchist, he comes close to occupying a class of his own (though not quite all his own).
I plan to write at greater length about Tolstoy's fascinating book for a future "Etceteras" feature in The Independent Review. Aside from its interest as a manifesto for Christian pacifism and anarchism, the book contains many anticipations of ideas later developed in economics and public choice, and it deserves much greater attention in these regards than it has previously received.
[Also posted at The Beacon.]
In her latest hit piece on the Mises Institute, WaPo's Jennifer Rubin quotes a David Weigel hit piece on the Mises Institute in which Weigel attacks David Gordon and Ralph Raico for daring to criticize Winston Churchill. The occasion for these remarks is a comment made by Rand Paul about American policy before 1941:
"There are times when sanctions have made it worse," Paul said. "Leading up to World War II, we cut off trade with Japan. That probably caused Japan to react angrily. We also had a blockade on Germany after World War I that probably encouraged some of their anger."
It's not my job to defend Rand Paul, but as Weigel notes, these ideas are likely influenced by this article, and this article.
Rubin's purpose in mentioning it is to imply that merely mentioning established facts about the pro-war behavior of the American regime prior to world War II somehow constitutes sympathy for the Axis powers. Such an assertion is nonsense, of course, since the Japanese and Nazi states are responsible for the actions of the Japanese and Nazi states. Pointing out that Roosevelt's regime was doing everything it could to provoke a war with the Japanese, on the other hand, simply highlights the barbarity of the American state in putting its own citizens in danger and seeking a conflict that led to the placing of Japanese Americans in concentration camps, and the enslavement of millions of Americans through conscription. Reducing every conflict to a comic-book-like battle between good guys and bad guys, on the other hand, is just the sort of thing that people like Rubin live for.
For those who actually seek a more complete and detailed view of the lead-up to the Second World War, see Robert Higgs's article based on this video:
Robert Higgs discusses his book 'Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government'. Purchase online.
Robert Higgs, in spite of his reservations about writing op-eds, has written a great one for the McClatchy-Tribune wire:
One of the main reasons for containing our joy is that the rate fell from 7 percent in November despite the addition of just 74,000 net new jobs, a weak performance by any measure – and far below the 2013 monthly average of 182,000 new jobs. Another reason for caution is that the standard unemployment measure (U-3) provides a distorted picture of what's taking place in the job market.
A better measure of the health of the job market is total employment: how many people have jobs. After all, it is employment that contributes to our well-being. Jobs, not unemployment, produce the goods, services and earnings that our families rely on. And on this front the picture is grim by historical standards, with 2 million fewer civilians working at the end of 2013 than at the end of 2007, when the economy began to tank.
But even this doesn't tell the full story, because while the economy and job market have been struggling, the population has been growing. This means that a smaller percentage of the job-eligible civilian population – that is, non-institutionalized individuals age 16 and older – has jobs.
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Not only can a prostate biopsy create what most men consider an uncomfortable situation — there is nothing pleasant about having a thin needle inserted through the rectum, urethra or perineum to poke your prostate gland any number of times — but the tests oftentimes can result in a false negative. That means the patient has cancer; it's just undetected.
"The technique has been used for a long time," says Dr. Jeremy Laborde, a radiologist at Our Lady of Lourdes. "There are some problems with this technique. For one, you can't see the prostate cancer. It's a random sampling so you can have false negatives."
Between 10 and 25 percent of prostate biopsies come back with a false negative, says Laborde, which is one of the reasons prostate cancer continues to be a leading cause of death in men.
The outcome of the biopsy essentially depends on the location of the cancer.
"Whenever they place the needles in they can only go 17 millimeters deep, but if the cancer is further in, they're not going to sample it," explains Laborde. "You can get cancer anywhere in the gland, but for patients that have those cancers they're just out of luck. They'll go get screened, get a biopsy, and then they'll say they have no cancer, but their labs keep going up abnormally, and the patient gets anxious."
This creates an even bigger problem: late diagnosis, which gives the cancer time to spread and become more aggressive, where it begins to attack the lymph nodes, bones and other areas of the body, ultimately becoming untreatable.
This is where magnetic resonance imaging comes into play through a new technique developed over the last five to six years called multiparametric MRI, which allows specialized radiologists with the right equipment to create a visualization of the tumor physiology.
Laborde introduced the technique to Louisiana after undergoing intense training that included a fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago.
He calls it "revolutionary," saying, "We're no longer just using MRI to look at anatomy."
"This is allowing prostate cancer to be managed similarly to breast cancer," explains Laborde. "We're starting to get in that direction where we can actually see the prostate cancer. Before, that wasn't possible."
For Lafayette attorney Shannon Hardy, Laborde's MRI technique proved a lifesaver.
The 48-year-old Hardy says after undergoing blood work in 2010, his results came back with elevated PSA levels, meaning he was at risk for prostate cancer. Yet a biopsy screening indicated no cancer.
Over the next few years, however, Hardy's PSA levels continued to rise, prompting a friend, Dr. Rodney Burns — Laborde's partner — to suggest an MRI.
"He told me about the benefits of MRI and how it helps with detection 100 percent," recalls Hardy. "I went in for the MRI, and it showed a growth on the anterior portion of my prostate — a difficult spot to get to with biopsy."
MRI Prostate Imaging is now offered at three hospitals in Louisiana, but Our Lady of Lourdes, says Laborde, was the first — which is why it has been attracting patients from Baton Rouge, New Orleans and other parts of the state. In fact, Lourdes officials say more than half of the program's business is coming from outside of the market.
The reason for the limited availability is largely a result of the cost associated with the MRI machine, which averages about $1.3 million.
"We started offering this in late 2011, and you need a cutting-edge computer to be able to do these techniques," says Laborde. "These machines are not widespread. Throughout the state, the average computer age is between eight and 10 years. It'll be a while before machines like this are common."
AUG 29 Everyone who cares about Louisiana should take time to peruse this story about coastal loss from Bob Marshall of The Lens. It's not enough to call it a story; it's an interactive experience packed with data and amazing graphics, timelines, history, photos and excellent writing. Set aside some time, because you can't go through this one in a few minutes.
JUN 29 This bizarre story from the Advocate on the shooting of a Baton Rouge television personality reads like the script of a soap opera - but not a good one. The allegations against him include sexual abuse of children, including the alleged shooter, and a sham immigration marriage involving his own daughter. The other side? He was a chaplin for the Sheriff's Office in Baton Rouge and preached in a local church.
AUG 29 Here's a story from CBS News about a killer amoeba found in the water system of St. John the Baptist Parish. The story made all three networks (CBS, ABC, NBC) as well as Fox "News," although they have not yet found out how it is Obama's fault. Seriously, the good news is that so far officials know of no one sickened by the water.
AUG 29 Huffington Post has a blog called Love Letters, which is grandly described as "an anthology of reflections on places the world over." This entry is from LSU Football Coach Les Miles, who, it appears, loves Baton Rouge. (Of course he does; he's a rich straight white man.) And certainly Baton Rouge loves him - unless he loses (ask Curley "Golden Flake" Hallman about that) or leaves (ask Nick Saban).
AUG 29 Blogger Bob Mann comments here upon Governor Bobby Jindal's federal lawsuit about Common Core. Mann calls it a "thinly veiled campaign document" and that might be the nicest thing he says in this post. Most troubling for Jindal and his aspirations, Mann has unearthed what Bobby said just a few years ago when he first decided to shove Common Core down our throats.
AUG 29 Blogger Tom Aswell has several developments here related to the so-called Edmonson amendment. The most entertaining one is possibly Tom's acknowledgement that a State Police official is (allegedly) calling the bloggers covering the story some colorful names. Listen up, cowboy: You really think two veterans like Tom Aswell and CB Forgotston care if you call them idiots?
AUG 29 Gotta love those journalists who write something with the enthusiasm that implies they're the first one to figure something out. Mostly, they're not. This is one of those times; the post on Slate Magazine says that Bobby Jindal's Common Core lawsuit is a political stunt. Well - Duh.
AUG 29 This story by WVLA tells us about a guy who got busted for speeding in Baton Rouge. Who cares? This guy took that infraction to new heights by going 129 miles per hour on Nicholson Drive. Poor fella - he probably has spent so much time sitting in Baton Rouge traffic he just had to cut lose.
AUG 28 As the controversy surrounding the Office of Group Benefits intensifies, blogger Tom Aswell gives us some background on the current problems. The OGB, which handles health insurance for current and retired state employees, is deep in the red since it was privatized by Jindal, and Aswell gives us the skinny: this great plan was designed by ALEC. The company handling it? Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana - a longtime member of ALEC.
AUG 28 Blogger CB Forgotston has a concept for a new reality show: the wives of the "Dork Dynasty." That's the name that some troopers have given to State Police Commander Mike Edmonson and his inner circle. The ladies CB has picked for his cast are not just housewives, however, and the connections here are pretty interesting.
AUG 28 Blogger Ian McGibboney is writing about the strife in Ferguson in this post, and articulating what many people down south are saying. There's a fairy tale about how there's tons of racism in the South, but it's all hunky dory up North. (Really? Look again.)


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The Milwaukee Brewers signed free agent relief pitcher Francisco Rodriguez to a one-year contract on Friday, according to Chris Cotillo of SB Nation. The deal is worth $3.25 million with another $550,000 in incentives, reports Mike Axisa of CBS Sports.
Rodriguez, 32, will return to the team for whom he pitched for parts of the last three seasons. He was acquired by the Brewers from the New York Mets in July of 2011 and was re-signed to one-year deals in 2012 and 2013. In July of 2013, the team dealt him to the Baltimore Orioles, but the right-hander will serve another stint in Milwaukee in 2014.
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In 2013, "K-Rod" had varying levels of success for his two teams. As a Brewer, he posted a 1.09 ERA and 10 saves in 24⅔ innings over 25 appearances; as an Oriole, his ERA jumped to 4.50 in 22 innings and he didn't record a save while serving as a set-up man to closer Jim Johnson. Overall, his 2.70 ERA and 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings signal that there is a lot left in the tank for the right-hander, who debuted as a 20-year-old in 2002 and holds the all-time single-season saves record.
Although Rodriguez spent some time closing games for the Brewers in 2013, he will likely slot in as a set-up man in 2014. After his departure in July, Jim Henderson settled in as the team's closer and finished with 28 saves in 32 chances. Other top relief options for Milwaukee include Brandon Kintzler (2.69 ERA in 2013), Tom Gorzelanny (3.90), Rob Wooten (3.90), Donovan Hand (3.69) and Alfredo Figaro (4.14).
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Six Red Line Metro stations closed for track workComment
Metro will shut down six stations entirely on the Red Line starting on Friday night at 10 p.m. as WMATA makes upgrades, installs new rail and inspects bridges.
Frustrated commuters in RosslynComment
A train malfunction is causing headaches on the Blue and Orange lines.
Blue Line Metro stations closed in advance of Thanksgiving holidayComment
The weekend before one of the busiest travel holidays of the year will see Metro shut down the station at one of the region's busiest airports.
Waterfront, Navy Yard, Anacostia, Congress Heights stations closedComment
WMATA says that the Waterfront, Navy Yard, Anacostia and Congress Heights stations will be closed through the system's closing on Sunday. The system will also run on a Saturday schedule on Friday.
Five Red Line Metro stations closed this weekendComment
The Takoma, Silver Spring, Forest Glen, Wheaton and Glenmont stations will be closed through the weekend while crews rebuild track and do other major work the five stations.
Why is Metro losing riders?Comment
Metro ridership has been dropping steadily over the last four years. Since 2008 the number of passenger trips has dropped by more than 5 million.
Orange Line power problems mean no 8-car trains Thursday morningComment
Ongoing power problems on the eastern side of the Orange Line will continue to cause issues Thursday morning.
Orange and Blue line delays possible this morningComment
A problem with two power substations in Northeast D.C. is caused delays throughout the Orange and Blue Lines of Metro during the Wednesday morning rush hour.
Brookland, Rhode Island Avenue Metro stations closed this weekendComment
Track work shuts down two stations on the Red Line in Northeast D.C. this weekend as crews do bridge work near the New York Avenue station.
Metro board approves split of Blue LineComment
The chaos that ensued after a person was struck by a train Tuesday was not on the board's agenda.
Rosslyn Metro delays: Angry riders take to Twitter to vent frustrationComment
A switch problem stymied Metro traffic near Rosslyn again on Wednesday. Here's what social media-savvy WMATA riders had to say during yet another delay.
Columbus Day weekend Metro delays impact Green, Orange, Yellow LinesComment
The Green, Orange and Yellow Lines will all see buses replace trains in several places in D.C. and Northern Virginia throughout the Columbus Day weekend.
Weekend Metro delays: Yellow Line to route into Arlington due to bridge workComment
The weekend in Metro delays, which start once again Friday night at 10 p.m., include the rerouting of Yellow Line trains on Blue Line tracks to accommodate the inspection of the rail bridge over the Potomac.
Metro delays to affect Red, Blue, Orange and Green linesComment
Track work on the Red, Blue, Orange and Green lines will cause delays of up to 30 minutes throughout the Metro system this weekend.
Labor Day weekend Metro delays will affect Orange, Blue linesComment
Major track work on the Orange and Blue lines will cause delays and station closures lasting through the long Labor Day weekend.
Red Line shut down between Rockville and BethesdaComment
The Twinbrook, White Flint, Grosvenor-Strathmore and Medical Center stations will all be closed through the end of the day on Sunday.
Man rescued from under train; delays during rush hourComment
A man was rescued after getting trapped under a Metro train at Friendship Heights Monday.
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MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Local health sector leaders want more focus on the development of green space for exercise and wellness to complement initiatives for economic revival following the collapse of the bauxite/alumina sector.
At a recent town hall meeting hosted by the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), head of the Brooks Park Sports and Recreational Complex, Dr Clifton Reid and Regional Technical Director of SRHA Dr Michael Coombs drew attention to the issue.
Brooks Park, close to the centre of Mandeville, is the main green space and open air recreational area in the fast-growing capital of Manchester. It has been the subject of much debate down the years as to how it should be developed.
Reid told the health forum at Cecil Charlton Hall that while the economic discourse is useful, creating avenues for people to take care of their physical and mental well-being should also be given serious consideration.
He spoke of a recent business forum in Mandeville which explored avenues for economic growth but gave short thrift to his intervention on the need for green spaces.
"I tried to engage the leaders (of the discussion) on the importance of.... investing in green space for the very employees (expected) to drive this (economic) growth. I managed to get the question in, but I was (sidestepped) very quickly by somebody who had more important things to discuss," Reid told his audience.
The physician noted that in countries where the benefits of green space are appreciated there is a park every few miles.
Coombs lamented that treating the growing number of non-communicable diseases was very costly for the health sector. He said there was need to encourage prevention strategies, including exercise and healthy recreation.
"It is obviously much more affordable to deal with (the) risk factors... rather than deal with the diseases themselves," he said.
Coombs said that conditions such as obesity, diabetes, some cancers and certain chronic respiratory diseases can be prevented through lifestyle choices including proper nutrition, physical activity and reduction in alcohol and tobacco use.
"We have to provide the environments that facilitate physical activity.... (and) social interaction...," he said.
Coombs said that there was a non-communicable disease strategic plan covering the period 2013-2018 and prevention and health promotion are areas of focus.
He said that while Government has a responsibility to provide health centres and hospitals, individuals had a primary responsibility to take care of their health. Children should be guided on the path of a healthy lifestyle from early,
he said.
Business and community leaders in Manchester and the wider south central Jamaica have been advocating new and diversified investments following the 2009 closure of the Alpart bauxite/alumina plant in Nain, St Elizabeth and Windalco in Manchester.
Bauxite mining supported the economy in Central Jamaica for over 50 years.
Among the more popular ideas being mooted for Mandeville and its environs is development of an information technology and knowledge hub.
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Hyrule Warriors, the Dynasty Warriors-esque action game set in The Legend of Zelda universe, is coming to Wii U this year. And developer Tecmo Koei hopes the game is a big hit, obviously.
Speaking in interview with Nikkei Trendy regarding the company's goals for the upcoming fiscal year, Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa revealed selling a million copies of the upcoming Wii U game was among them.
"In addition to our Warriors series fan base, Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda is also a very popular series with a large fan base, and I think it will become a great new market," said Erikawa. "Because of The Legend of Zelda's legion of fans overseas, we are aiming to sell more than one million copies worldwide."
As Erikawa pointed out, given the immense popularity of both franchises, one million sales doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. This project seems like a good opportunity for cross-pollination, pulling in folks from both sides of the aisle to experience something new. Maybe they'll even sell a few consoles in the process.
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NAMA: A Tool of Development or De-industrialization?
AbstractAbstract The author argues that although the collapse of the Doha "Development" Round in early summer of 2006 was triggered by the refusal of the United States to agree to the reduction of the ceiling on the amount of domestic subsidies paid to the US farmers, there were some fundamental reasons behind the failure of the talk related to the contradictions in design and implementation of WTO rules to detrimental interests of developing countries. He uses the example of NAMA to highlight the inconsistencies between the objectives and spirit of the agreed Doha Text and the subsequent proposals made by developed countries during the process of negotiations. He shows that these inconsistencies are, in fact, a reflection of the inherent double standards in GATT/WTO rules. On the basis of experience of successful industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization prescribed by neoliberals, he proposes the necessary changes in WTO rules in order to make them conducive to industrialization and development. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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