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Fighting over the wheel of government

[update below] Fundamentalist states on an interesting thread : "Most Americans are outright socialists; the rest are socialist sympathizers. They believe that only the government can save them from capitalists." In response, I raised the following...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Oct 16 2007

Filed under: rent-seeking, enviros, government, corporations, socialists, limited liability

Towards a productive libertarian approach on climate, energy and environmental issues

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 10 2010

Filed under: property, rent-seeking, energy, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, power, climate change

A Left-Rothbardian Approach To "Privatization"

What exactly does it mean to "privatize" a service or industry? As I have argued before , there is a lot of confusion over the precise meaning of the terms "public" and "private" to begin with. The fact that state-controled...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Apr 4 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Taxation, Patronage, Libertarianism, Corporatism, Labor

Bob Murphy, the Heritage Foundation and "green jobs" - ignore coal! We only pay attention to rent-seeking from greens/the left

Bob Murphy has recently noted that he is busy at work, doing yeoman`s work in fighting the good battle against stupid "green" or "clean" jobs that the Obama administration and some enviros are pushing. This is fine as far as it goes...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 8 2009

Filed under: obama, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, climate change, exxon capture, carbon

Explorations in teleocentric forms of ethics

Recently, I’ve taken up reading again in my free time. Currently, I am half-way through the excellent Norms of Liberty by Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas den Uyl. I’m not going to review the book here or engage in a full summary of their views...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sat, Aug 2 2008

Filed under: Aristotle Den Uyl Rasmussen Virtue Ethics Property Liberalism

Property of Mind, Right of Access, and Trespass

I own my life. I own my body. I own my mind. I own the product of my own work. If I use my body to create physical property, the product of my work is my property. If I use my mind to create a work, the product of that work is also my property. If I have...

Posted to Panpiper by Peter Cohen on Sat, May 2 2009

Filed under: Trespass, IP socialists, Right of Access, IP, Property of Mind, Intelectual Property

The Disabled Car Because of Missing or Broken Essential Parts Problem

Sparsely scattered over Austrian and other economic literature are treatments of both the valuation and the factor pricing (separately) of essential parts of an automobile whose absence or malfunction prevent the automobile from serving its intended end...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Tue, Feb 3 2009

MasterResource/Tom Tanton: another muddle-headed "free-marketer" who thinks it's fine that coal gets to shift pollution costs to others

Sadly, so-called "free-marketers" are often so busy smacking down bad arguments from greens that they fail to note, much less acknowledge, that they're fairly frequently making bad arguments themselves or ignoring gaping inconsistencies...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Mar 6 2009

Filed under: Coal, MasterResource, externalities, Bradley, Stanton

How To Fix The U.S. Financial Problem

The reasons behind the collapse of the banking industry and its subsequent bailout by the government are going to be argued by pundits and experts for the next hundred years. There will be books written on it. It will be the subject of countless Ph.D...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: Bail out, Bailout, science, engineering, physics, business, Finance

Man & religion: Is there is an objective moral reality? In which I hazard a few thoughts

I make no pretense of having any formal training in philosophy, but it strikes me that the answer is no. I post here a few thoughts I penned in an exchange with Gene Callahan at his blog, Crash Landing on May 18 and 19, in connection with conversation...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, May 26 2009

Filed under: Callahan, objective moral order, humans, Shahar

Transcript of Bernanke's answer to Terry Easton on the Austrian school.

X : Yes, one right at the back, red tie, just underneath the cabinet rack. Terry Easton : Thank you, that's an Adam Smith tie, eh, at the Adam Smith Foundation. Thank you Dr. Bernanke. I really appreciate as we all do your challenge in dealing with...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Tue, Jan 13 2009

Filed under: transcripts

The Validity of End User License Agreements

Wendy Grossman explains the legal gray area that surrounds End-User License Agreements (EULA) that Microsoft et al slaps on every piece of software it sells to consumers: If you did read the terms, you might be surprised. Eulas typically specify that...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Sun, May 4 2008

Filed under: eula

A few thoughts from Japan on unowned/common resources, governments and whale PR wars

I left this comment on a post at Andy Revkin' s Dot Earth/NYT blog about the January run-in between the Sea Shepherd organization and the Japanese whaling fleet (emphasis added): TokyoTom Tokyo January 11th, 2010 3:50 pm Andy, this dispute is in some...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jul 23 2010

The Danger of Political Centrism

It is often assumed that centrists are good because they are not "extreme". Centrists are generally viewed as being preferable to the so-called "far left" and "far right". However, it is my contention that centrists are the...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jun 4 2008

Filed under: Democracy, Voting

The Rational and Individualist Case Against Racism

I'd like to state upfront that I am not an egalitarian, which is to say that I am fully aware of the fact that people are inherently unequal with respect to their mental and physical capabilities as individuals, and I despise the politically correct...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 1 2007

Filed under: Racism, Determinism, Polylogism, Collectivism, Discrimination, Separatism, Philosophy