Comments on: Economic Neanderthals

By: Mike Linksvayer » Don’t let (potential) rioters set policy

Mike Linksvayer » Don’t let (potential) rioters set policy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:25:33 +0000

[...] Which should be enough to win over any modern human (non-neanderthal) to open borders. The ethical argument for open borders is even better. Policymakers must take account of the many voters who disagree with Legrain, even if this is based on ignorance and prejudice. It is surely better to admit 500,000 immigrants annually and have social peace than 1m and riots. [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » More economic neanderthals

Mike Linksvayer » More economic neanderthals — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:45:54 +0000

[...] Trade may have been one point on which modern humans outcompeted neanderthals (the latter didn’t tade over long distances). [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Blog Archive » Autonomous Liberalization

Mike Linksvayer » Blog Archive » Autonomous Liberalization — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:57:09 +0000

[...] ellectual protectionism. Still, I find it hard to not root for CAFTA, if only because the economic neanderthals on the other side are so ugly. (CAFTA is doubtless a very u [...]

By: Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:35:52 +0000

When I allow trackbacks (in WordPress), I get only spam.

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:36:04 +0000

Thanks. Trackback only works about half the time for me, sending and receiving. I suppose I should upgrade to a non-alpha and non-ancient version of WordPress and hope that solves the problem.

By: Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:13:07 +0000

Interesting post. I tried to trackback with my related post, fwiw.