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"Private" and "Public" are Misleading Terms

This is a response to the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9qGxjjAP8 Hello Luke I share your frustration with the definitional chaos surrounding these words. In many ways the meanings typically attached to the terms public and private...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Mar 4 2008

Filed under: Collusion, Patronage, Propaganda, Economics, Corporatism, Central Banking

UK jury approves damage to power plant in defense of a commons/ other private property; libertarians and conservatives freak out

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...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Sep 11 2008

Filed under: cordato, AGW, Ron Bailey, adler, Dolan, Block, climate change, Iain Murray, rothbard, bratland

Is Copyright Infringement Theft?

One of the hardest things to swallow for me is the concept that every single copyright infringement is somehow akin to theft. The copyright infringer usually expends his own resources and utilizes his own labor to produce a product that is similar or...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, May 22 2008

Filed under: copyright

More useful discussion by Carson, both on BP’s fate in a free market, and on the inept, feckless and captured regulatory state

Another BP post ! Both of Kevin Carson' s most recent posts at Center for a Stateless Society are worth a read. BP’s Fate in a Free Market, Part Two How’s All That Progressive Regulatory Stuff Workin’ Out For Ya? In particular, Kevin's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jun 9 2010

Let them eat cake

Inflationary booms Imagine the average price for a house is $100. You buy a house for $100 (putting down $50 and borrowing the other $50 from the bank). Now imagine that the average price of houses rises to $300 and so you put your house on the market...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Tue, Dec 9 2008

Capitalism, the destructive exploitation of the Amazon and the tragedy of the government-owned commons

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, May 24 2009

Filed under: tragedy of commons, property rights, fisheries, Pielke, Amazon, Lahsen, Hardin, Bahner, technology, Avatar

Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments

[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Aug 18 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Nordhaus, risk, Manzi

The Lucifer Effect Writ Large

A copule years ago a book was published called The Lucifer Effect . It recorded a long-running experiment at Stanford University where some students were "prison guards" and other students were "inmates." To make a long storty short...

Posted to The Spirit of Liberty by TigerofRobare on Sat, Sep 22 2007

Filed under: government, prison-state, police, freedom

Objectivism and War

So the other day an Objectivist wrote this gem at their blog: "On this Memorial Day, I would like to honor the three men of the American Civil War who understood the terrible need for total war : President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, May 31 2008

Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Consistancy, Collectivism, Rational Egoism, Altruism, War, Libertarianism

If new Euros come only from collateral, would the Eurozone not be better off under the gold standard?

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: March 25 2012 During the past week, we think, we witnessed some interesting developments. In our previous letter, we had discussed what was the KreditAnstalt event of 1931. We saw a striking similarity...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Mar 25 2012

Thoughts on the upcoming Ron Paul Announcement

The latest press release shows that: Dr. Paul will announce his intentions for the fall presidential election and will be accompanied by several special guests. This could mean anything. However, it doesn't sound like an endorsement, since the title...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Mon, Sep 8 2008

Filed under: ron paul

Gene Callahan: public moral opprobrium is an appropriate non-statist lever against climate change

I previously noted Gene Callahan`s interesting essay , "How a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming" , in the October 2007 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty , at the website of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). While I haven...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 1 2008

Filed under: AGW, Callahan, climate change, moral pressure

The Religious Wrong and The Republican Retreat

Limbaugh was calling it, “…the end of the Democratic Party.” And so it might have seemed in 1994 to a party awash in victory and full of the hubris that comes with it. President Clinton had overreached with his gun control measures...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Mar 16 2009

Filed under: politics, Liberal, Conservative, Republican, democrat, Religion, Religious right

Taxes. Previously titled "Slavery"

Special intro for mises.org readers: This may not be the most enlightening thing for anyone who may chance across on a site such as this, and it was not written for you. It was written for the common man in the world above. who has not had his eyes opened...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Sun, Mar 23 2008

The Anarchism and Minarchism Blur

Usually if I talk about minarchism I'm going to essentially bash it and promote anarchism against it. This is to be expected, since I am an anarchist. But I would like to point out a certain sense in which I think that the conflict between anarchists...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Apr 28 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Minarchism