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Who are the misanthropes - "Malthusians" or those who hate them? Rob Bradley and others resist good faith engagement despite obvious institutional failures/absence of property rights

In a series of posts at the self-declared "free market" blog of the fossil-fuel energy industry funded Institute for Energy Research , energy expert Rob Bradley (former Ken Lay speechwriter and Enron policy wonk) explores his dark forebodings...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Mar 2 2009

Filed under: Malthus, energy, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, obama, Ehrlich, Rob Bradley, limited liability, Julian Simon

In which I try to help Bob Murphy figure out just what the heck I`m talking about (when I say he`s entangled in a partisan, rent-seeking game)

I recently posted a copy of a comment to Bob Murphy , trying to explain Roe Romm`s attack on Bob`s effort to explain some of the stupidity behind "green" or "clean" jobs, and how it is that Bob just doesn`t seem to be (and is in fact...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, May 11 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, fossil fuels, Bob Murphy, climate change, exxon capture

The Eve of Destruction: Excellent post on how Government and statist corporations like BP are stifling community responses to the unfolding Gulf disaster

Yes, another BP post ! Another Avatar post, too! Following a trail of crumbs, I have just chanced upon an insightful post at the "On ALLiance" group blog of left libertarians . The post, a reader submission on June 13 by "Keith" is...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 18 2010

Thoughts On Punishment

I think I reject the traditional concept of punishment (this is not to say that I'm opposed to measures that compensate victims though, because that isn't really punishment in the way I'm thinking of it, since the emphasis is on the victim's...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Oct 4 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Crime and Punishment

Sociopaths-R-Us? Here's someone's interesting thought experiment: "What If BP Were A Human Being?"

Further to my preceding BP posts regarding the gaps between (i) Austrian insistence that we focus on individual rights and plan formation and (ii) the penchant of some (many!) libertarians to support corporations while bashing citizens groups which are...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, May 17 2010

Social Contract My Ass

I hear people talking about a social contract all the time. Usually in the context of some authoritarian action by the government, instituted many times by the “will” of the majority (this is really a misnomer in itself, since the majority doesn’t participate...

Posted to IrishOutlaw by IrishOutlaw on Fri, Mar 14 2008

Filed under: rousseau, locke, lincoln, natural law, social contract, bakunin

Bob Murphy - fan of cost-benefit analysis (in the face of climate risks)!

Austrian-leaning economist Bob Murphy , whose efforts last year to discount the work of Yale's William Nordhaus on how cost-benefit analysis merits current action on climate change I previously examined , is back with more, this time defending Nordhaus'...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 4 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, climate change, Weizman

Economics in One Lesson编校the proofreading plan for Chinese translation

希望有一天Henry Hazlitt这本《一课经济学》，跟物理、化学并列科学教材，作为中学生的必修课。在此利用blog作一个开放的平台，欢迎有兴趣的朋友加入到这个努力中来。 Economics in One Lesson第一版于1946年面市，1948年商务印书馆就推出了中译本《经济学新论》，译者宋桂煌在1947年写的“译者弁言”介绍了相关情况。宋本有助于把我们的认识还原到那个时代。据说，Mises Institute在2008年推出的版本即以1946版为准，而不是后来的1979版...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Thu, Jul 30 2009

Filed under: Economics in One Lesson

Definitions

So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Apr 18 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Objectivism, Minarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Racism, Collectivism, Democracy, Altruism, War, Constitution, Social Contract, Religion, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, conservatism, Environmentalism

Question at Bob Murphy`s: can ending a tragedy of the commons create jobs / enhance wealth?

Check out the comments to Bob Murphy`s post that rightly but shallowly criticizes the "green jobs" mantra, EDF Summarizes Bastiat in One Picture . I refer to Rockwell and Block.

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 22 2009

Filed under: commons, Block, Bob Murphy, rockwell

Issues for a Chávez & Obama summit / Asuntos para una cumbre Chávez y Obama

Normal 0 21 false false false ES-VE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dear Barack Hussein Obama: Congratulations on your becoming the 44th President of the United States! I am writing to you as my humble contribution for a full restoration of diplomatic...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Mon, Nov 10 2008

Divination in the Iliad

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Inductive Practical Astronomy . Homer begins his Iliad as Hesiod begins his poems, by invoking a goddess, probably a Muse (although Homer, unlike Hesiod...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Wed, Jun 10 2009

Filed under: Epistemology, Homer

Would a Ban on New Gold Coins Work?

Assume a gold coin money standard. Some believe that new gold coins should not be allowed to add to the money supply. The basis for this belief is that once a commodity is established as money, society will derive no additional benefit from either more...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Tue, Feb 10 2009

In a shocking moment of honesty, ConocoPhillips CEO says offshore oil isn’t economical without government gifts of limited liability

I have a number of blog posts up discussing the BP oil well blow-out and the limited liaibility corporate structures and additional oil drilling liability caps that heighten moral hazard in offshore oil drilling. I have just run across a post by another...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Aug 18 2010

[Update- apology] The Road Not Taken III: Stephan Kinsella plugs his ears on the Austrians` obstinate, willful irrelevancy in the climate debate?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Nov 1 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, science, religion, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, climate change, limited liability, Kinsella: climate change