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I think you pretty much got it: libertarians are (or were) less likely to gravitate to such ideas -- and, when they do, they wouldn't embrace state cleansing. But I also wonder if this isn't just a war of numbers. Weren't there many more times the amount of progressive authors as there were libertarian ones? Even if the fraction of eugenic
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@Runyan Is there any videos of this lecture? You can find links to David Friedman's Mises Brazil lecture, as well as some of his other lectures, over his website: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/MyTalks/MyRecentTalks.html Patri Friedman's Mises Brazil lecture is also recommended!
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I am not certain, but I think Milton Friedman implicitly mentions his son in his famous Icelandic interview . (Apparently the socialist blond guy presided over Iceland as of the bankruptcy, a couple of years ago. eheh) He is asked why he won't defend his work against criticism from some British professor (the work in question is the monetary history
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I have been reading the stuff from the Academy. I am now finished. You pretty much get what you paid for. ;-) There are more interesting and thought provoking books on libertarian ideas. The website might be interesting for someone who has already been introduced to libertarianism, but it does a poor job at recruiting new people to those ideas: one
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nirgrahamUK , I read the initial post too quickly and I thought the point the teacher was making was something along the lines of the usual "as profits increase, workers can't buy what their own firm produces, ...". I do like stylized illustrations: so, I'd probably come up with two firms producing apples and oranges, or whatever.
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Assertion: In order to profit, it must charge more for these products than the masses are paid to produce them Reply: Then how will he profit if he charges more then what the masses are able to pay? Actually, I think this reply from DD5 is probably the best to make the point across that there's some problem with the teacher's reasoning. It's
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Smiling Dave, that much math will surely confound said teacher. ;-) Using an one-firm model of the economy should be enough to show that the teacher's reasoning is incorrect (or at least, incomplete in the way he presented it). I am a capitalist: I have 1 apple. Each apple has 5 seeds. I hire you for 2 apples. My profit is 2 apples (3 apples in
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Greetings, I have come across this libertarian "online academy" called TOLFA: www.tolfa.us -- does anyone know who is behind that project, or any other interesting information about the website? The author seems to be so convinced of the persuasiveness of his website that he thinks his ideas will spread exponentially and the American government
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My bed-time book has been P. J. O'Rourke's On the Weath of Nations . It's an entertaining summation of Adam Smith's great book, which he spices up with Smith's other writings, and what people wrote about Smith at the time. Steven Landsburg's Fair Play is on the mail, and will follow that one. Anyhow, I still got other books lying
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About this Mike Huben fellow, there is an interesting reply by David Friedman to his "Non-Libertarian FAQ": http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Libertarian.html Mike responded to that with a post by some fellow called Jonathan Andras, to whom Friedman also responds. Huben's website was the first stuff I've read critical of libertarianism