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In " Return to Honest Money " ( http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2011/05/return-to-honest-money.html ), blogger FOFOA discusses the idea of Freegold in the context of some writings from prominet Austrian School economists, focusing on Mises, Menger, Hayek, and in particular Mises' ideas regression...
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I am discussing with some hard-core proprietarians on the Polish Libertarian’s Forum . Currently our discussions revolve around Rothbard’s idea of proportional response to initiated aggression against victim’s property (let’s say a land). They claim that a victim, when his property...
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If an American State, subsidized by Foreign Gov't and Foreign Fed Bankers, violate an American individuals rights to self-rule (trampling Rothbard's non-aggression principal) would the Central US Gov't have an obligation to step in? Or do State Rights and Sovereignty precede the individuals...
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Hi everyone! I've been lurking here for about 6 months now and I’ve enjoyed the discussions. I now come to you for some advice. I am writing a senior thesis on the political theories behind healthcare. I am using Mises to represent the free market school Human Action with some help from Rothbard...
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Please tell me I'm missing something. I've gotten into heated debates over this, specifically government grants for musicians. While pooping, I thumbed through the Ethics Of Liberty and stumbled up to chapter 24... THE MORAL STATUS OF RELATIONS TO THE STATE ...This means that it cannot be unjust...
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No fuckin clue.. My brain + Rothbard = How do you mix labor with a bunch of land that you, essentially, do not want to mix labor with, but conserve the current state of. I don't think this is impossible, but I was just meditating and contemplating (getting baked) and I just can't seem to think...
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I am an economic layman, but I want to know more. I recently started reading Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". I am about 50 pages in and there are two things that are confusing me. 1) In arguing that money must arise out of a free market process as opposed to...
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-You emphasize that your are not an austrian but an chicagoan Correct. - You didn't like Rothbard, at least when its about the history of economic thought I've never been a fan of Rothbard. My basic objection to him is that I think he was willing to use arguments he had to know were bad when...
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Deflation has exactly the same harmful, economy-distorting effects inflation does, except in reverse. Every single reason you could cite for inflation being bad has a matching reason why deflation is. (a) For example, inflation does not happen evenly. You don't simply get paid more exactly the same...
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Does anyone know what Mises thought of Rothbard's Man, Economy and State? In particular about Rothbard's views on monopoly, which are opposed to Mises'? Thanks