"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" Block - TT's Lost in Tokyo

Block/Huebert/Kinsella revisit corporations, beg Qs of grant of limited liability towards persons involuntarily injured and resulting fight to influence state action by TokyoTom

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...

Question at Bob Murphy`s: can ending a tragedy of the commons create jobs / enhance wealth? by TokyoTom

Check out the comments to Bob Murphy`s post that rightly but shallowly criticizes the "green jobs" mantra, EDF Summarizes Bastiat in One Picture . I refer to Rockwell and Block.

More stupid from Tierney; this time on "Kuznets curve" and the dynamics of "wealthier and greener" by TokyoTom

 

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Rot at the core: When will Tom Woods and other "Free Market intellectuals" have second thoughts about the state grant of limited liability to shareholders? by TokyoTom

Tom Woods , in his recent "Another "Free Market" Intellectual Has Second Thoughts" post at the Mises Economics Blog, notes with great disappointment that Richard Posner is about to publish a book that will apparently abandon the free...

Note to William Anderson: Limited liability is a key to understanding the Great American Ponzi scheme by TokyoTom

William Anderson (an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and economics prof. at Frostburg State University) has a thoughtful New Year's Day post , pointing out how Paul Krugman fails to understand the causes of ouir economic stagnation and financial...
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Limited liability produces both pollution and political meddling: Block on Environmentalism by TokyoTom

 

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[Revised] Corporations, the state, limited liability and rent-seeking: Some criticisms of Huebert and Block's criticisms of Long by TokyoTom

[Update: Items 2 & 3 revised and an item 4 added.] J.H. Huebert and Walter Block have posted a critique of Roderick Long 's recent Cato essay . Allow me to make a few comments: 1. Huebert and Long argue that "There Is No Such Thing as Corporate...
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UK jury approves damage to power plant in defense of a commons/ other private property; libertarians and conservatives freak out by TokyoTom

See this surprising decision in the UK , letting climate-change protesters/trespassers off the hook for damages resulting from spray-painting a coal plant smokestack, on the grounds that a UK law "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent...
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Antarctic cooling? Or WHY "The Antarctic Ain't Cooperating" [Updated] by TokyoTom

[Significant update at bottom] I've decided to put up this little post in connection with Walter Block's recent post, http://blog.mises.org/archives/007828.asp , in order to avoid having my comment stuck in a spam filter (I've found that comments...
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Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases by TokyoTom

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...
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Edwin Dolan: applying the Lockean framework to climate change by TokyoTom

I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position ", from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3...
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