その名はほとんど知られていない。アメリカのホテル経営者で、料理店の主で、非営利のシンク・タンク国立政策分析センター役員である。その名が殆ど知られていないのは多分、その肩書きのせいだ。「自由経済」という概念が、実に概念にすぎないことを理解している人がほとんどいないからだ。そう、自由経済は現実的には、もはや存在していない。 自由経済は１...

2011年09月08日

New PM Noda chose inexperienced lawmaker Jun Azumi as Finance Minister in his new Cabinet.  This comes after veteran lawmaker and former DPJ secretary general Katsuya Okada turned ...

2011年09月02日

Daniel Hannan is a British representative of the EU Parliament.  He has drawn controversy for actually being against European integration.  Unknown to most of the world, he achieve...

2011年08月09日

The two initial March 11 disasters to hit the Tohoku region, devastating as they were, are recoverable events for most of the survivors.  Over time, the living mourn their dear los...

2011年08月31日

For all of those who wonder whence the origin of the current climate change debate, we bring you the first reference to it, not from scientists using computer models, but a group o...

2011年08月29日

We feature Twain again in our quotes because the man had a way with words, but also because we have a little girl playing Huck Finn in a school play today.  In her honor, we select...

2011年08月26日

Milton Friedman was many things.  Among them, he was an instructor of Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa while the latter was a student at the University of Chicago.  Unfortu...

2011年08月24日

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899 - 1992) was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collec...

2011年08月22日

Russian writer and psychologist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) understood the value of freedom.  He was exiled to Siberia for 4 years at hard labor followed by a forced 5 ye...

2011年08月19日

Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer known most famously for the classic tragedy "Faust" about making a deal with the the devil in return for worldly desires, a common theme of...

2011年08月15日