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The Magistrate/Mandarin Principle

This is the first of a series of posts called "Principles of Man". I will continually return to each post in this series adding more evidence for its importance from history. The state is a maleficent symbiosis of enslaving brigands (magistrates...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Aug 29 2009

Filed under: History, Political Philosophy, Principles of Man
Say hello to our Cyber Big Brother: Rockefeller and Snowe want to give the President "emergency" authority over private computer networks

Such authority would purportedly trump all laws to the contrary. Private operators of "critical" computer networks would also have to periodical nform the government of their network infrastructure and make sure their network managers have a...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Aug 29 2009

Filed under: Obam, Rockefeller, PATRIOT Act, Snowe, cybersecurity
Tragedy of the panicked enviro IV: not capitalism, but intensive use of unowned resources is the problem

This is my third follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. cyberfarer...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: commons, property rights, climate change, Amazon, Adam Sacks, Grist
Tragedy of the panicked enviro III: learning from Elinor Ostrom about cooperative action

This is the second follow-up to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: commons, climate change, Adam Sacks, Grist, Elinor Ostrom
The tragedy of the panicked enviro II; understanding the "tragedy of the commons"

This is the first of several follow-up posts to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: commons, climate change, Adam Sacks, Grist
Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro: stop and think, about whether resources are OWNED and protected

The Grist online environmental magazine lent its pages this week to a pessimistic climate change activist, Adam D. Sacks , former director of the Center for Democracy and the Constitution. Mr. Sacks, echoing a despairing piece (" Beyond the point...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: commons, climate change, Adam Sacks, Grist
Evolution, religion and our insistence on a still undefined "objective" moral order

I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: commons, religion, evolution, Callahan, Bob Murphy, Rappaport, moral order
A note to Joe Romm about big, bad, carbon-tax-supporting Exxon and the API

Joe Romm has a post up at Climate Progress that is highly critical of the U.S. oil industry, his ire no doubt triggered by the news that the American Petroleum Institute (API) is coordinating a series of "Energy Citizen" rallies by oil industry...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Exxon, Joe Romm
If you visit Japan, leave your pocketknife at home; if you bring it, certainly don`t ask the police for directions!

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: Japan, knife, police
Margo Thorning / ACCF to WVa. Conservative Foundation: we need a carbon tax and other policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Margo Thorning, Chief Economist and SVP at the influential American Council for Capital Formation (and director of research for its tax and environmental policy think tank (ACCF Center for Policy Research) and managing director of its new international...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Aug 28 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Exxon, Tillerson, ACCF, Thorning
More on self-deception, mirror positions and libertarian reticence on climate policy

I copy below (with minor changes for clarity) a further comment I made on the piece by Bob Murphy ( "I'm Starting With the Man in the Mirror" ) to which I referred in my prior post . The comment on which I remarking is addressed by one commenter...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Aug 27 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, cognition, Bob Murphy
A Mini-Manifesto of Liberty

In the following I outline, as succinctly as possible, my principles of libertarianism. Natural Morality I feel assault, plunder, and enslavement are wrong. Implicit in this feeling is a belief in property rights. I don't derive this feeling from...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Wed, Aug 26 2009

Filed under: Libertarianism
How Ends Contend

I claim that the ultimate goals of humans are products of feeling and not reason. However, Roderick Long, as a eudaimonist, claims that what the teleological philosopher usually thinks of as ultimate goals are really penultimate goals (although he doesn't...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Wed, Aug 26 2009

Filed under: Ethics, Praxeology, Eudaimonism, Philosophy of Mind
Fun with Self-Deception and Rent-Seeking: Bob Murphy's "Man in the Mirror"

Robert Murphy , Austrian school economist and blogger , is in my book a remarkably thoughtful and insightful commentator on current economic issues, even as I find some of his arguments on climate policy and energy to be shallow . Bob`s balance and relatively...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Aug 25 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, cognition, Bob Murphy, Rob Bradley, Matt Taibbi
A new central planning era

Image via Wikipedia In the end it's all about risk taking not avoiding - if you want to make a profit you have to take risks. If you hedge against all of it is a cero sum game, just think of playing always the same amount on red and black on a roulette...

Posted to kollerro by Robert Koller on Tue, Aug 25 2009

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