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Non-scarcity of intellectual property

Scarcity can be defined as the ownership of something tangible which necessarily excludes others from using it. Thus, if I own a fork, I exclude others from using it, unless I either give it away or temporarily transfer availability of it to someone else...

Posted to Solredime by Solredime on Fri, Aug 7 2009

Filed under: regulation, intervention, non-scarcity, intellectual property, monopoly rights, IP, copyright, copyleft, creative commons, scarcity

If you don't like it...

I'm reading through Thomas DiLorenzo's contribution to the recently published Hoppe Festschrifft and a thought suddenly occurs to me. It occurred as I read through the section on secession and how public choice theorists ignore secession and focus...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Wed, Aug 5 2009

Filed under: secession

A View from the Trenches, August 6th, 2009: "Not so fast!"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com/martin I am a bit more confused today than I was yesterday. I was hoping to see a bear flattening in the yield curve, indicating that implementation of an exit strategy by the Fed...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Aug 5 2009

a poem

Born of the fire, Fuelled by desire, Rises an idol forsaken by hell. This spirit of madness, the terror it wrought. None now remember, the havoc it sought. Enslaving our minds in the shackles of hate. Its emblem was blood, but its enemy fate. Yet now...

Posted to Solredime by Solredime on Wed, Aug 5 2009

Filed under: poetry, poem, idolatry, idol, desire, fire

A View from the Trenches, August 5th, 2009: An interesting day

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) Very interesting trading session yesterday… As you can see in Chart 1 below, the morning started with a very weak USD and...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Aug 4 2009

A View from the Trenches, August 4th, 2009: "Updating the forecast"

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) We are back from a relaxing time with friends, at the shores of Lake Huron, only to find that I may have now to update my views...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Aug 4 2009

Ask Not...

Oh for the days of liberals like John F. Kennedy! I recently watched Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address on YouTube. (See it --> here .) It was filled not with grandiose, government, give-away programs, but with rhetoric about how we as citizens of...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Aug 3 2009

Obama Proves Tax Cuts Stimulate Economy

All we have to do is get him to see that this is exactly what he's already doing. It goes like this. The average Joe, of which I am one, can't afford a new car. So, because the average Joe makes up the bulk of the population, Mr. Obama has created...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Aug 3 2009

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Posted to romantivist by Romantivist on Sun, Aug 2 2009

Filed under: environmentalism, goods, intrinsic value, George Reisman, Carl Menger, natural resources, consumption, global warming, useful value

More Thoughts on Categorizing Economic Schools

The School's... View of the scope of Economics: science of human action, science of objective wealth, science of scarcity and allocation, etc. Method of formalism: verbal logic, mathematical logic, acceptance of ambiguity and lack of formalism Basic...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Sat, Aug 1 2009

Entrevista 6 agosto 2009 como artista pictórico

VERSION DE EL DIARIO DE CARACAS PUBLICADA HOY: http://www.eldiariodecaracas.net/pagina%2020.htm 1) ¿Consideras que un artista está comprometido? Un artista está comprometido consigo mismo, con su arte y con lo que le quiere dejar...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sat, Aug 1 2009

Filed under: puntillismo, El Greco, cinético, Reverón, fauvismo, Dalí, Matisse, galería, Odalys, Golding, abstracto

A Teachable Moment

That's what the President called his meeting between Officer Crowley and Professor Gates. "A teachable moment." I can only interpret this, having come from his lips, as an opportunity for him to teach us . So what did he teach? From everything...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Fri, Jul 31 2009

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

The Importance of Fellow Travelers

Fellow travelers are often treated as annoying gadflies, whose only effect is to distract the hard core of a group. However, they serve in a number of underappreciated roles. In the Austrian case, they help to bridge the gap between the mainstream and...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Thu, Jul 30 2009

A View from the Trenches, July 30th, 2009: "A quick summary of main thoughts"

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) This is the last letter of the week (“A View from the Trenches” is not published on Fridays) and in Canada, next Monday...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Jul 29 2009