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The Money Problem by Alex Merced While people like me definitely see the virtue of a gold standard, even a gold standard in any of it's historical incarnations still have one fundamental problem, they are a monopoly. I can discuss how the gold standard restrains government which promotes peace and...
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) One of the roles of government, debated even among those of a libertarian or small government perspective, is that of regulating monopolies and ensuring competition. On a larger political scale, the debate may focus on how free or how socialized should a market...
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Filed under: capitalism, corporatism, corporate welfare, libertarian, free market, license, natural monopoly, public utility, privatization, patent, monopoly, competition
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I copy below an interesting press release with the title noted above , regarding the "smart metering" of power consumption. I have blogged previously on Google`s efforts to speed the introduction of Smart Meters . Perhaps we will also see a little more focus on the negative role that our widespread...
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Joe Romm of Climate Progress has a new post up that lambasts a recent WaPo op-ed by "environmental ethicist" David Henderson . Romm provides useful information on the relative efficacy of government technology forcing efforts, but comes down like a ton of bricks on Henderson, all while ignoring...
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Gustave De Molinari was a radical classical liberal associated with Frederic Bastiat and the French liberal school of economics. In his work "The Production of Security", Molinari was the first economist to propose the possibility of free competition for the production of security, which had...
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Fri, Jan 30 2009
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Filed under: Anarchism, Minarchism, Competition, Monopoly, Libertarianism, Economics, Free Trade, History, Anarcho-Capitalism, Murray Rothbard, Frederic Bastiat, Gustave De Molinari
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In the economic sense of the term, competition refers to the incentive to better appease a multiplicity of demands, and cooperation refers to the most efficient and ethical means of meeting such demands. An individual's demands are better met through cooperation and production than through isolation...
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Brainpolice
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Wed, Nov 19 2008
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Filed under: Coercive Monopoly, Competition, Decentralization, Centralization, Monopoly, Checks and Balances, Means and Ends, Social Contract, Consent, Economics, Free Association
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The concept of individual liberty, consistantly applied, would seem to have pluralistic implications. For it leaves room for anyone to act as they please within the context of voluntary interpersonal relations, and by its very nature a society consists of a plurality of different types of people with...
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Free association and competition resolves conflict while politics, especially democratic politics, enables and ultimately depends on conflict. All disagreements between people about how to organize can theoretically be resolved through free association, as they have the choice to either disassociate...
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In the discussion and debate that goes on among libertarians, it is disputed as to wether or not libertarians should vote and participate in party politics. Some see voting as the only practical option, some think that there should be a multi-pronged approach that includes voting, some are die-hard supporters...
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Sat, Apr 5 2008
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Filed under: Anarchism, Coercive Monopoly, Competition, Collusion, Monopoly, Checks and Balances, The Calculation Problem, Democracy, Representation, Voting, Means and Ends, Agorism, Propaganda, Consent, Libertarianism
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Checks and balances should be a fairly familiar concept to Americans. The standard definition of checks and balances is that the state must be broken up into multiple segments that function as checks against eachother's power and perform different functions, while these segments still remain within...
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Newsflash: Government monopoly fails. Again. As usual. On September 6 I ordered an item of apparel (a Ron Paul t-shirt) online. On the ninth it was shipped via UPS from Ohio to a warehouse in New York City, arriving on the twealth. It has not moved since. Need we really speculate about why? USPS is not...