While watching the Colbert Report last night I was struck by a comment by Governor Mike Huckabee. He said, and I unfortunately paraphrase, that when you are in debt, you spend less. His phrasing seemed to imply that this was common sense, and indeed, it is. But I worry that it is the same common [...]

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ne frequent debate amongst western scholars and economists is the distribution of talent in the public and private arenas, as ludicrous bank bonuses are justified as being required to ‘retain talent.’A frequent lament is the question why our mot talented college graduates do not heed any kind of call to public service, leading to an [...]

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I just heard the scariest quote I’ve ever heard from an NPR broadcast about the incoming class of freshmen congresspersons: “If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” to justify his position that we need to go back to how we did things before the current administration’s reforms.
This [...]

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After the May 2009 publication of Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, and with other China projects in development, we’re welcoming authors who want to share their work to write about it here at BAO Blogs. This group welcomes new voices, and at Berkshire we’re looking forward to finding ways to create fresh interchange of ideas, and [...]

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