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Further to my preceding posts regarding John Quiggin`s post on " Libertarians and delusionism ", I copy below a few of the comments that I left there: TokyoTom November 4th, 2009 at 08:13 | #3 John, thanks for raising the topic more widely. However, I think you`ve wandered a bit astray yourself...
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In my initial post, on how Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change , I copied my chief comment to Stephan Kinsella . I copy below my other posts and some of the remarks I was responding to on Stephan`s thread , including the one that I was unable to post - for some reason...
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[Note: Stephan Kinsella tells me he has NOT put my posts on his thread on moderation. I believe him, and so (even as I fail to understand why I was unable to post a particular comment after a number of attempts), as noted I would in my original post, I withdraw my charge that he put my comments on moderation...
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[Update: Readers may wish to note the latest developments, as I note in these follow-up posts .] Stephan Kinsella - whom I have engaged before on the ramifications of the decidedly non-libertarian state grant of limited liabiility to corporations - has a new post up on the Mises Blog on global warming...
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[Update: I copy at bottom a follow-up exchange I had on Bob`s thread with another reader - radio silence from Bob.] Bob Murphy has a new post up at his blog, " CBO Testimony Misleads on Cost of Cap-and-Trade ", that draws attention to a new blog post at the Institute of Energy Research that...
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My recent post, " Bob Murphy on climate change at Antiwar Radio; a puppet for the "King Coal" hand that feeds him? ", attracted a bit of attention, including some hostile comments from some LvMI community members who thought my comments regarding the motivations of Bob Murphy `s funders...
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The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer has quit the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple`s...
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Anti-enviro gadfly Steven Milloy has a new blog post up that rightly skewers the green mandates that are providing a taxpayer-funded stream of business and profits to GE. Notes Milloy: GE announced today that utility giant American Electric Power (AEP) will purchase 110,000 smart meters from GE. And...
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I haven`t seen Michael Moore`s latest film, " Capitalism: A Love Story " - it premiered in New York last week, but who knows when it will make it to Tokyo? - but I`ve been reading some of his interviews and reviews of his film. While Moore is confused in identifying the existing U.S. statist...
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A reader of Bob Murphy` s recent post on climate science - " TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts? " - queried my views on whether perceptions of climate change problems themselves justified a need to establish government. I copy below my response (with a few typo and editorial changes): "Do...
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Lord knows I`ve got better things to do, but I can`t resist. Rob Bradley has written extensively on energy regulation from a libertarian viewpoint and spent a number of years as an adviser to Ken Lay inside Enron - apparently seeing up-close (while conscientiously fighting a losing battle to steer Enron...
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I left the following comment at a recent Mises Blog post by Stephan Kinsella , but the number of links included apparently triggered the spam filter and held up the comment. According, I post it here, so I can re-comment with a cross-link here. Stephan, we have extensively discussed this matter previously...
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Further to my preceding post, on " Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest science "scoop (Linzen-Choi) ", I note that Bob Murphy has kindly put up a new blog post that notes and responds to my comments to him . Since it`s late here, interested readers might want...
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I copy below (with minor changes for clarity) a further comment I made on the piece by Bob Murphy ( "I'm Starting With the Man in the Mirror" ) to which I referred in my prior post . The comment on which I remarking is addressed by one commenter to Silas Barta: cotterdan: I think the error...
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Robert Murphy , Austrian school economist and blogger , is in my book a remarkably thoughtful and insightful commentator on current economic issues, even as I find some of his arguments on climate policy and energy to be shallow . Bob`s balance and relatively rare introspection are on display in his...