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Holiday joy: roasting "watermelons" on an open pyre!

[snark on] One of Sean Corrigan's threads brings us not only more information on handy Misesean definitions, but a path towards Yuletide joy. (For those of you who have not been reading them, Sean's columns and comment threads are truly gifts...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Dec 16 2007

Filed under: Reisman, AGW, watermelons, Corrigan, Reisman Rule, Corrigan Creed, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

"Pay Your Air Share" - Libertarian think tank advocates carbon taxes!

1. Check out the San Diego-based The Prometheus Institute , http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/ , which has just launched a new website calling for carbon taxes: http://www.payyourairshare.org/ . They propose that: A tax be levied on all major emitters...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 13 2008

Filed under: climate, carbon pricing, Dolan, libertarian, Prometheus Institute

On Human Nature

It is common for humans to be presented as being separate from and even antagonistic with nature. In particular, some radical environmentalists portray human beings as inherently waging war on mother nature, that our existance is intrinsically destructive...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 2 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Determinism, Philosophy, Human Nature, Praxeology, Thomas Hobbes

"Climate Change, Evidence and Ideology"

Libertarian law prof. Jonathan Adler has a brief but interesting post up at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, explaining something of the internal conflict he faces in favoring limited government but acknowledging that it is likely that man is pushing the climate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 6 2008

Filed under: climate, commons, adler, cognition

The Road Not Taken II: Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change, the greatest commons problem / rent-seeking game of our age

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 30 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, science, religion, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, limited liability, Kinsella: climate change

Jim Hansen warns of slow-motion disaster and welcomes future public trials of fossil fuel CEOs for buying government delay

Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 26 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, James Hansen, adler, Callahan, fossil fuels, George Will, Peter Barnes

Why top demagogues (Jim Hansen, Florida Power, RAND, Exxon, AEI, Margo Thorning, major economists, George Will) prefer rebated carbon taxes

[Note to first-time readers: the title is tongue-in-cheek.] I have previously blogged on libertarian, non-state approaches to climate change ; allow me to use this post to pull together for diligent readers various recent sources of opinion and information...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 27 2008

Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, GAO, George Will, Mankiw, Peter Barnes, rebated tax, OMB, RAND, Hayward, Thoring, Ken Green, Exxon, Pizer, Shapiro, AEI, Royce, Lakoff, Lewis Hay, Riddle

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases

Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 25 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Block, Hayek, Richman, Callahan, confirmation bias, freedom

Transcending Anarcho-Semantics

There is a reoccuring problem that occurs within internal libertarian and anarchist discourse that I like to call the anarcho-semantics problem. The anarcho-semantics problem most often occurs in discussions and debates between socialist oriented anarchists...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Sep 6 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Capitalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Vulgar Libertarianism, Anarcho-Capitalism

Economics in a job interview

My month-plus-long search for job stability turned onto the final 100m today. For over the past month I have been seeking a full-time position. Finding nothing, I turned to temporary work at a local staffing agency and easily found temp. work. The work...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Sep 10 2008

Filed under: taxes, john mccain, ludwig von mises, job creation, henry hazlitt, unions, unemployment, minimum wage, capital reinvestment, barack obama

ferrochrome

Sometimes I think what commodity to specialize on. There are the opportunities with precious metals and stones. There is certainly money to be made. But then there are use metals and there will be always a sustainable demand for those. So I am considering...

Posted to Torsten by Torsten on Mon, Nov 24 2008

Filed under: ferroalloys, ferrochrome, metals

George Will on why a carbon tax is much preferable to cap and trade

The Warner-Lieberman bill has been withdrawn for consideration by Congress this year - and thank goodness. Why do I say that? A few weeks ago George Will published a column that explains very clearly why we are fortunate that this bill has been put on...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jun 24 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, George Will

The Myth of "The Rule of Law"

The theory of a republic is essentially that, in contrast to democracy in which there is tyranny of the majority and in contrast to monarchy in which there is the rule of a single man or oligarchy, the law itself is what rules rather than men. In essence...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Mon, Apr 28 2008

Filed under: Determinism, The Calculation Problem, Democracy, Constitution, Social Contract, Human Nature, Prohibition, Crime and Punishment

Do Churches Have Copyright?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are claiming that their copyright on the religious handbooks they give out to their bishops have been violated by Wikimedia Foundation's Wikileaks that published pages of the aforementioned material...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Wed, May 14 2008

Filed under: copyright

Murphy vs. Schiff

Back in September 2007 Robert Murphy posted an article concerning one of the analogies that Peter Schiff makes in his book Crash Proof . Schiff's argument is essentially that persistent trade deficits are unsustainable and Murphy's article attempts...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Sat, Dec 13 2008