Posts, February 2005:

NUPI's dubious incentives: Aftenposten is concerned about NRK's credibility: The danger is that professional journalistic criteria for news programs are being sacrificed in favor of public appeal. In the long term, credibility - NRK's foremost capital - may suffer. What brought this on? [...]

Hayek: The Common Sense of Progress: [This is part of a series of posts on Friedrich A. Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty. Here's the full list.] Inequality is so strongly associated with poverty that the words are interchangable. When people say that inequality is a bad [...]

Bjørn Vassnes and evolutionary biology: Science writer Bjørn Vassnes has made waves in Norway with some odd ideas: Evolution has made men and women biologically different; gender studies have more in common with occultism than with science; real science is not just the postulates of [...]

Oslo winter killed by global warming: The head of WWF Norway, Jørgen Randers, warns in Dagbladet that the Oslo winter has been cut in half by global warming, from four months twenty years ago to only two months today. The average winter temperature in Oslo has, [...]

Hayek: The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization: [This is part of a series of posts on Friedrich A. Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty. Here's the full list.] What is the greatest flaw of socialism? There are plenty of candidates. Lack of incentives is one: Compare the level [...]