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The Triumph of South Park Economics? (part 2)

By on July 13, 2012 in Economics in Media, Miscellaneous

As the title indicates, this post is the follow up to a previous post. I recommend reading it before jumping into this one.
Enter Stan Marsh, just trying to return his family’s margarita maker. If there is any redemptive part of “Margaritaville” it is here.
First Stan attempts to return it to the retailer. The…

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The Failure of South Park Economics (part 1)

By on July 9, 2012 in Economics in Media, Miscellaneous

In a previous post, I lauded the economic lessons of South Park’s “Cash for Gold” episode. In this post, I must reverse my praise for the economics in an earlier episode, “Margaritaville.” The episode originally aired in early 2009 amid intense public debates over the global financial crisis.
The episode took on the cornucopia of …

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The Economic Kindness of In-Kind Donations

By on July 4, 2012 in All Posts, Economic Theory, Miscellaneous

The popular humor website “Cracked.com” recently published a thought provoking article entitled “5 Popular Forms of Charity (That Aren’t Helping).”  The five charitable activities mentioned were (1) awareness campaigns, (2) donating clothing, (3) choosing your charity based on its overhead, (4) earmarking donations, (5) volunteering after disasters.  The author’s arguments for why each of these…

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Introducing Liberty Classroom!

By on June 21, 2012 in All Posts, Miscellaneous

With the introduction of Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom, you now have the opportunity to learn the history and economics that you never learned in school.
Since the “intellectual battle for the free society is on,” Liberty Classroom‘s “goal is to equip as many ambassadors for liberty as possible with the knowledge that they need to…

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