I’m hoping to showcase a lot of stories around economics on big and small things in this blog, so I thought it might be worthwhile to outline my personal philosophy briefly since it will guide the content that gets selected. It’s possible that my thinking will change through further discussions and evidence, but in the meantime I consider myself to be a “Randian with a Conscience” since I love Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and until recently was a Paul Krugman fan (more on why my interest is waning in another blog entry).

I fell in love with Ayn Rand after reading ...read more