EconStories.tv is the offspring of award winning video director John Papola and Russ Roberts professor of economics at George Mason University. I remember being skeptical when I saw a link to their first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust” an economic rap battle between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, but after bopping through the […]

Asperger’s (colloq. Ass Burgers) An ill-fated, early competitor to the McDonald’s fast-food chain started by Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger in 1944, staffed entirely by autistic employees. Although the business filed for bankruptcy shortly after opening, Hans Asperger looked on the bright side, referring to it as a “learning experience”.

Before we are once more drawn into the warm wet embrace of faith in the economy, I wanted to make note of my recently evolved commonsense skepticism of economic systems. At some point in my life, I unfortunately lost my endless curiosity in subjects that lay just outside the confines of my current knowledge. One […]