Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Is Not A Solution: Providing An Alternative To Paul Krugman. I want to make Karl

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/21/karl-smith-is-a-better-public-intellectual-than-paul-krugman/Criticism Is Not A Solution: Providing An Alternative To Paul Krugman.

    I want to make Karl Smith the person on the left-of-center that conservatives engage with, and get Karl a major media outlet. We cannot develop compromise policies with ideologues. So the other side needs a better voice. And to do that, we have to protect the other side’s public intellectuals from our own ideologues.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-21 09:09:00 UTC

  • Getting To Denmark

    Getting To Denmark http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/17/getting-to-denmark/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-17 19:49:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/170595862634958848

  • should save this article for one of the conservative magazines — but I’m too bu

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/17/a-reply-to-paul-craig-roberts-were-not-exporting-democracy-were-exporting-consumer-capitalism/I should save this article for one of the conservative magazines — but I’m too busy to engage in self promotion right now. Please forward to your conservative networks. My Libertarian friends, please forgive me. I’m doing good works the old fashioned way. One step at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-17 14:56:00 UTC

  • To Denmark” is the progressive utopian fantasy. Here is how to accomplish it

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/17/getting-to-denmark/”Getting To Denmark” is the progressive utopian fantasy. Here is how to accomplish it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-17 14:49:00 UTC

  • GOOGLE STATUS INDEX Ok, my name only returns .015M Google listings. Stephan Kins

    GOOGLE STATUS INDEX

    Ok, my name only returns .015M Google listings. Stephan Kinsella gets .16M, Hoppe has .3M, Salerno has .4M, Walter Block .6M, Lew Rockwell 1M, Karl Smith >2.5M. Joseph Stiglitz >4M, Paul Krugman >8M. Just to make us all feel inadequate, Nancy Pelosi returns 11M, and Superbowl champ Eli Manning? He returns 18M. I’ve got to make it over 250k somehow. Everyone needs a goal. I’m not going to get there by winning the superbowl, that’s for sure. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-15 13:04:00 UTC

  • EDUCATION DOESN’T TEACH YOU ANYTHING – IT’S JUST SIGNALING THAT YOU’RE DISCIPLIN

    EDUCATION DOESN’T TEACH YOU ANYTHING – IT’S JUST SIGNALING THAT YOU’RE DISCIPLINED. http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/10/bryan-caplans-current-work-on-the-limited-benefits-of-education/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-10 13:35:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/167965031609270272

  • APPLE IS ALREADY ROTTING I didn’t want to stick my neck out last month and say t

    APPLE IS ALREADY ROTTING

    I didn’t want to stick my neck out last month and say that Apple’s brand is decaying. I thought the Steve Jobs worship was overdone. But, just as kings and queens tend to keep a populace holding positive sentiments, so does a heroic and visionary leader. Apple isn’t actually a very nice company. It pushes ethics to the limit and often beyond. When we saw the company anthropomorphized as a heroic Steve Jobs trying to fight for us by creating simple interfaces against the careless and mechanistic IBM/WIN-TEL behemoths, we forgave Apple its indiscretions. But if you follow the sentiments expressed online by pundits and average consumers it’s clear that they still want their iphones and ipads and macbooks. But it’s also clear that company that we see as Apple, is attracting negative sentiments rapidly. It’s a magnet for criticism.

    I’ve been toying with how to create a replacement identity for Apple – a persona that isn’t so much of a replacement for Jobs, but at least would allow the public human image that they believed was still fighting for them on their behalf. Anything I’d find attractive would be too obscure. Someone else might have more populist instincts. I’ve always felt that TMobile selected good representatives. Geico does a good job as well. But Apple needs something special. A person that they can trust – and I don’t see that person on the management team at apple. So it’s got to be an actor capable of engendering nerdy-artist consumer trust. I do NOT think creating a set of identities will work. Or that a populist brand will work.

    There are better people than I working on it. I’m more interested in simply recording that the problem exists and that it needs to be solved.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-10 10:59:00 UTC

  • EXPANSION MATCHES THE HAJNAL LINE WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? Because the relationship

    http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/medieval-manoralism-and-the-hajnal-line/MANORIAL EXPANSION MATCHES THE HAJNAL LINE

    WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? Because the relationship between the protestant ethic, the inclusion of women in the work force, the relative equality of women, late marriage, consanguineous marriage. ie: The lower classes had a harder time breeding. People got smarter. Unlike now, where people are getting marginally smarter but on average the world is getting ‘dumber’.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-10 10:15:00 UTC

  • SHOULD HAVE PICKED THE NEO-CLASSICALS AND AUSTRIANS INSTEAD OF THE KEYNESIANS. P

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/10/to-scott-sumner-a-the-economic-spectrum-includes-neoclassicals-and-austrians-and-b-monetarists-picked-the-wrong-allies-in-keynesians/MONETARISTS SHOULD HAVE PICKED THE NEO-CLASSICALS AND AUSTRIANS INSTEAD OF THE KEYNESIANS.

    People don’t trust the government with their money. They won’t ever do so again, either.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-10 08:38:00 UTC

  • EDUCATION DOESN”T TEACH YOU ANYTHING – IT”S JUST SIGNALING THAT YOU”RE DISCIPLIN

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/02/10/bryan-caplans-current-work-on-the-limited-benefits-of-education/NO, EDUCATION DOESN”T TEACH YOU ANYTHING – IT”S JUST SIGNALING THAT YOU”RE DISCIPLINED.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-02-10 08:34:00 UTC