MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'atlas shrugged'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5077651&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fk-GVclYFIbo%2F By Daniel J. MitchellIn a perverse way, I’m glad that there are places such as Greece and Illinois. These profligate jurisdictions are useful examples of the dangers of bloated government and reckless statism. There also are some cities that serve as reverse role models. Detroit is a miserable case study of big government run amok, so I enjoyed a moment or two of guilty pleasure as I read this CNBC story about the ongoing decay of the Motor City. Here are some excerpts: Detroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may pit them against each other for scarce resources. …[T]he boundaries of the 139-square-mile city aren’t ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5077651 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:12:19 +0100 5077651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050521&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJA4uHq64LKQ%2F El Universo, the newspaper with the largest circulation and the paper that publishes my weekly column, ran a mostly blank front page today that features only this quote from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. This quote is from Francisco D’Anconia’s speec... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050521 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:12:09 +0100 5050521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4758741&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fer8WI4V0fNA%2F By David BoazOn NPR, Mara Liasson tells Melissa Block that we’re in a “libertarian moment” in politics: BLOCK: And Ron Paul appears to be running. Again, he got a lot of devoted followers on the Internet last time during the 2008 bid, not so many votes in the primary. So this time around, is he a significant addition to the Republican field or more of an asterisk? LIASSON: Well, I don’t think he’s a huge factor in terms of the nomination. In the 2008 GOP primary, he got only about 6 percent of the Republican vote. However, as you said, he does have a devoted following, lots of libertarian-leaning young people. He can raise millions of dollars online in a single day in one of his famous money bombs. So he brings energy to the party, and the Republican Party bas... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4758741 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:02:33 +0100 4758741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684263&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQPvbHPrpY8g%2F By George Scoville DON'T FORGET: Our fiscal policy conference, "The Economic Impact of Government Spending," featuring Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), Representative Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), and other distinguished guests, begins at 2:00 p.m. Eastern today. Please join us on the web--you can watch the conference LIVE here. Atlas Shrugged Motors presents the Chevy Volt. The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us about the moral value of voluntary charity toward the needy--it says nothing about using coercive government programs of the modern welfare state. It is not the role of the Court to rewrite laws for Congress. The failed "war on drugs" has reshaped our budgets, politics, laws, and society--and for what? Thursday Links is a pos... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684263 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:50:14 +0100 4684263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670095&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FesbVSDUr5i4%2F By George Scoville They passed the bill, and now we're finding out what's in it. We're finding out that the war in Libya could really be about protecting European interests. In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described a world in which government both partly produced and partly subsidized goods; we're finding out she wasn't far off the mark. We're finding out that "American exceptionalism" is a cloak for military adventurism. The longer America fights a war on drugs, the more we find out about how detrimental it is to our fiscal outlook: Friday Links is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670095 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:45:22 +0100 4670095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331276&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPF4QysQiVgg%2F By Daniel J. MitchellFiscal crises have a predictable pattern. Step 1 occurs when the economy is prospering and tax revenues are growing faster than forecast. Step 2 is when politicians use the additional money to increase government spending. Step 3 is that politicians do not treat the extra tax revenue like a temporary windfall and budget accordingly.Instead, they adopt policies – more entitlements, more bureaucrats – that permanently expand the burden of the public sector. Step 4 occurs when the economy stumbles (in part because more resources are being diverted from the productive sector to the government) and tax revenues stagnate. If the resulting fiscal gap is large enough, as it is in places such as Greece and California, a crisis atmosphere is created. Step 5 takes pla... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331276 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:53:29 +0100 3331276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3059715&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQK8uAGrFCoc%2F The Wall Street Journal has an interesting column that asks whether Ayn Rand, the famous libertarian novelist and philosopher, is a net plus for the free-market movement. This seems like an odd question. After all, her books (especially Atlas Shrugged) have been hugely influential, exposing countless people to a libertarian message. But the column’s author, Heather Wilhelm of the free-market Illinois Policy Institute, has a good point. Rand’s emphasis on individual freedom is laudable, but she makes herself an easy target by asserting that this requires über-individualism and leaves no room for altruism. Indeed, I’ll always remember being somewhat put off by the scene in Atlas Shrugged where one of protagonists rents, rather than lends, his car to a friend. And even tho... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3059715 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:22:14 +0100 3059715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2621753&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsCMpV_2jsXo%2F Cato’s new staff writer, Aaron Powell, told me he had recently seen two people on the Washington Metro reading The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. That prompted me to check the sales figures for Road to Serfdom at Nielsen’s Bookscan. And whattaya know? Sales have increased this year at an even faster pace than sales of Atlas Shrugged. (Atlas sells 10 times as many copies, but the percentage increase over last year is less.) So far this year the most popular edition of Road to Serfdom has sold 11,366 copies. That compares with 3,131 copies at the same point last year. That’s a 263 percent increase for those of you keeping score at home. Why? Well, no doubt huge new government spending programs and attempts to massively expand the welfare state send people looking for class... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2621753 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:20:56 +0100 2621753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416801&cid=t_158858_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FT59DO-gId_w%2F Sales of Atlas Shrugged have risen sharply this year, and various observers from the Ayn Rand Institute to the Economist have attributed the jump to “uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day,” in the words of ARI’s Yaron Brook. The Economist writes, Whenever governments intervene in the market, in short, readers rush to buy Rand’s book. Why? The reason is explained by the name of a recently formed group on Facebook, the world’s biggest social-networking site: “Read the news today? It’s like ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is happening in real life”. Brook told CNN: “So many people see the parallels with actually what’s going on, with the government taking over the banks, with the government kind of taking over the autom... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416801 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:51 +0100 2416801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1433968&cid=t_158858_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fian-rand-and-the-situation-of-ideas%2F Last week Clark Davis had a piece titled “Ayn Rand Studies on Campus,” on NPR’s Morning Edition, May 6, 2008. The story illustrates one of the many ways in which dispositionism is promoted (and, by implication, situationism is undermined). To listen to the story (roughly 4 minutes), click here. We have excerpted portions of the transcript below and added two videos (the first and second parts) of a remarkable Dan Rather interview of Ayn Rand. * * * John Allison, CEO of banking giant BB&T, calls Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged “the best defense of capitalism ever written.” He says that Rand changed his life, and he’s working to ensure that the deceased author isn’t left out of the nation’s college curricula. Since 2005, the BB&amp... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1433968 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:42 +0100 1433968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1112061&cid=t_158858_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F204263616%2F A relatively new and anonymous web site devoted to defending pharma is generating some curiosity. Known as BigPharmaRealPeople, the site portrays itself as home to the ordinary pharma employee, unabashedly defends the pharmaceutical industry and gleefully attacks individuals and groups branded as enemies for programs and legislation that are seen as encroaching on the industry’s mission - saving lives. Among those on the Nixon-like enemies list: Washington DC council member David Catania, who wants to license sales reps, and New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram, who recently convened a task force to probe interactions between docs and pharma. Another enemy: the National Physicians Alliance, which eschews ties to drugmakers. Government intervention, for instance, is blamed for tho... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1112061 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:35 +0100 1112061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1063588&cid=t_158858_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2007%2F12%2F01%2Fatlas-shrugged-and-environmentalism%2F I just wish to share this press advisory I received via email, since I’m subscribed to ARI’s mailing list. Atlas Shrugged and Environmentalism Who: Dr. Keith Lockitch, resident fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute What: A talk and Q&A on Atlas Shrugged and the application of Ayn Rand’s ideas to environmentalism When: Saturday, December 8, 2007, at 3 pm Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, 1623 N. Ivar Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028; Phone: (323) 856-8260 Sponsored by: Los Angeles Public Library and the Ayn Rand Institute Admission is FREE Description: Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, about a decade before the rise of the modern environmentalist movement.  Yet the ideas in Atlas Shrugged are indispensable to understanding and ev... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1063588 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:38:23 +0100 1063588