Which Countries Border The Czech Republic?

Posted on July 30, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Which are the Swiss cantons that define the Swiss national border? Does Italy have states within its national border? Which US States overlap with the Ogallala Aquifer? After roughly 60 posts, this is my first with a more technical nature. I did promise to keep things accessible to as many readers as possible. Therefore, I’ll [...]

On The Privilege Of Having Nothing

Posted on July 26, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Granted, perhaps, … not having much, at least compared to some which is, however, still a lot compared to others, most others. With the spirit of Laura María Agustín, author of “Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry,” Immigrants are human beings with the courage to leave the comforts of home, [...]

09/01 – The Nowhere District

Posted on July 20, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

La capitale di questa nazione si presenta immacolata, ordinata, raggiante e contrastante. I suoi Monuments e Memorials ricordano gloria quanto miseria umana. Abraham Lincoln, il grande presidente, primo ad alzare la voce contro la schiavitù, celebrato a Washington DC con un Memorial dalle colonne maestose. All’interno la statua gigante, lui seduto tiene nella mano sinistra [...]

To Consider Or Not To Consider Foreign Law

Posted on July 11, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Today, I read the following answer given by Peter V. Kunz — professor for Business and Comparative Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland — to a question in an interview with NZZ (translated from German,) Yes, American courts can ignore Swiss law — currently, there is a pronounced tendency in the USA to deliberately [...]

Who Gets The Price Right?

Posted on July 10, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

The plot: The entrance to a small sized open-air concert. The actors: Two coordinated ticket buyer-and-sellers, individual buyers, individual sellers, the official box-office and, of course, tickets. The box-office ticket price for the event: 88 CHF. Availability of tickets at the box-office: Yes. This might be somewhat a post on “Economics 101,” a short — [...]

On The Swiss Army

Posted on July 4, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

For the records. I’m Swiss and, overall, I did spend roughly one year in the Swiss Army, which functions according to a militia principle. I was 19 and at that time I did agree with their (not negotiable) suggestion to have me signed into corporal school. I did regret my (not negotiable) signature from the [...]

Does The Environment Have Intrinsic Value?

Posted on July 1, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

In their book “Free Market Environmentalism,” the authors Anderson and Leal emphasize an assumption that is fundamental to the way of thinking underlying the book’s arguments, namely, that the environment itself has no intrinsic value. I wonder if the assumption may lead at best to an incomplete and at worst to a wrong analysis of [...]

 

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