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“It seems to me that economics is a branch of logic, a way of thinking; and that you do not repel sufficiently firmly attempts à la Schultz to turn it into a pseudo-natural-science. One can make some quite worthwhile progress merely by using your axioms and maxims. But one cannot get very far except by devising new and improved models.
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Here's the problem: If we posit that Ron Paul is really a closet Voluntaryist, any disconfirming evidence can easily be explained away--and maybe it can be explained away plausibly. But in order to keep this hypothesis intact, we have to look very closely at the amount of ad-hocness involved in explaining away this. Otherwise, we get to a point
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Is it weird that I was thinking just a few days ago about how long he's been with the Mises Institute, and how much longer he was going to be around? Bizarre. It's also very unfortunate that we weren't told, considering how much work he's put in.
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Papa Rothbard? That's a new one, and it's for keeps, too!
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[quote] The Koran says that Muslim should not be extravagant with money and that men are not to wear gold. Not very Libertarian.[/quote] That doesn't even make sense. First, you don't define what 'extravagant' means, and secondly, libertarianism is not libertinism (not that wearing gold is outlandish, or anything). One can be a consistent
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[quote] And blasphemy is illegal in my own country Ireland, and is punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. What's more this law was only introduced a year or so ago. And being from a Catholic family and Christian country, I know well what Christians believe. But are people who don't follow the bible word for word actually Christian. After all
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Why strawmen and nonsense? Because you didn't even read the Ten Commandments, else you wouldn't have made that statement about swearing. Moreover, nobody would actually apply blasphemy laws today, at least from the Christian tradition, outside from some loons who exist in _every_ field. You don't at all understand the relationship between
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[quote] But all you have to know is that both religions believe in the ten commandments. If you break one of these commandments you will burn in hell for all eternity. That means you will burn in hell for all eternity for swearing.[/quote] Strawmen and nonsense. You should know better.
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Right, there's no question that it wasn't mutually beneficial. Each party suffered a detriment and gained a benefit. The child/woman acted and so swapped a set of unfavorable circumstances for a set of more favorable circumstances in order to remove unease. Now the real question is whether this is moral or just (in terms of positive law) or
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[quote]...or does the market display a degree of monopsony power over labour (in which case a minimum wage will increase employment)?[/quote] Could you describe in more detail the scenario in which these circumstances would obtain? What do you mean by the market displaying a degree of monopsony power over labor?