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SPOILER ALERT I haven't finished the book yet. They just discovered that the prisoner's planet has it's own economy and are about to attack. So maybe some of my comments change when I finished the entire book. Well; I felt a bit odd reading Alasdair lecturing about economics/freedom ideas; using words as 'subjective value', 'Ludwig
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I just started part two. The question in libertarian fiction stopped being 'who is John Galt', and started - or ought to start - to be 'Where is (our) Alistair Ashley?' Only a few minor details that I think where a bit wrong to implement (but are not groundbreaking and unrelated to the story) it's probably the best work I've
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Read the damn article.
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Bryan Caplan's 'why I'm not an austrian Economist' should better be termed 'why I'm an austrian economist, but why I differ on a few minor quibbles'.
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The school bully of economic cranks. :D
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[quote user="Isaac "Izzy" Marmolejo"] here is a debate on unions... good read http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block64.html [/quote] Cool; the utter denial of all economics by the opponent of Block. :D One could even make a more nuanced critique of Block - I would disagree with it, probably, but sure - but that guy is just insane
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Well, even in an anarchist world, the idea of a (big) domain that has a common (easement) aspect to it - private nor (by definition) government property - does make sense. So they could live there. The idea of a private commons (obviously) makes sense in an anarchist world (i.e. Lin's Ostrom's empirical work in this statist world), so it also
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I wasn't even talking about content, but the style and place of intellectual investigations.
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Which where, in a very meaningful way, the good old (intellectual) days.
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Although economics, properly speaking, isn't 'productive' as such, it is, just as philosophy and anything else, something that people could appreciate in knowing just for the sake of knowing. So it's true that in a free society, there would be less economists, but there would be some. (Some) people actually like knowing this stuff. It's