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Jatropha biofuel, Third World exploitation

Poor people in India are evicted from their land to make way for Jatropha biofuel crops.

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Posted to Charles Anthony by Charles Anthony on Wed, Jul 29 2009

Filed under: pignon d'inde, environmentalism, green politics, physic nut, crony capitalism, jatropha, green energy, biofuel, biodiesel, green gold

Economics in One Lesson校译之24. The Assault on Saving (4-1,2)

The Assault on Saving 第24章抨击储蓄 From time immemorial proverbial wisdom has taught the virtues of saving, and warned against the consequences of prodigality and waste. This proverbial wisdom has reflected the common ethical as well as the merely prudential...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Wed, Jul 29 2009

A View from the Trenches, July 29th, 2009: "On systemic risk and savings"

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) This is turning out to be a tedious week, with a mix of different readings on macro data about the housing market, the shape of...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Economics in One Lesson校译之 A NOTE ON BOOKS

A Note on Books 后记与参考书目 Those who desire to read further in economics should turn next to some work of intermediate length and difficulty. I know of no single volume in print today that completely meets this need, but there are several that together supply...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Ejemplos de escasez causada por el control de precios

La teoría económica predice que si un gobierno impone un techo para el precio de venta de cualquier bien o servicio, por lo común debajo del precio de mercado que resultaría de la interacción competitiva entre proveedores...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Filed under: Venezuela, excedentaria, leche, trigo, harina, huevos, pollo, azúcar, demanda, maíz, cerdo, café, arroz, Techo, escasez, precio

Ben Bernanke Was Wrong: Featured on Mises.org

My piece Ben Bernanke Was Wrong is a Daily Article today on the Mises Institute web site. Here is the article and the comments page. I've fleshed out my commentary on the transcription to make it more of an actual article. I've also updated the...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Tue, Jul 28 2009

Filed under: General, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke

A View from the Trenches, July 28th, 2009: Motion creates motion

(To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) With the relative normalization trend in place, a lot of different investment themes start to appear. These themes have a different...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 27 2009

Economics in One Lesson校译之26. The Lesson After Thirty Years (2-2)

第三篇三十年后的这堂课第26章三十年后的这堂课（接前面部分） If we go through the chapters of this book seriatim, we find practically no form of government intervention deprecated in the first edition that is not still being pursued, usually with increased obstinacy. Governments...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Mon, Jul 27 2009

Formalizing Ordinal Utility

I’ve tried to make an attempt to formalize the Austrian notion of utility. This seems to be a praxeologically sound formalization which does not imply that mathematics can be used in economic theory. This formulation does not state that utility...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Mon, Jul 27 2009

Religión y Liberalismo

por Manfred F Schieder "La verdad es que, empero, sólo existe una realidad." (de "A quién debemos creer?", por Wafa Sultan 12 de junio de 2009) http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/06/who-should-we-believe.php "Quién...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sun, Jul 26 2009

A View from the Trenches, July 27th, 2009: "This time is different"

( To subscribe to this daily market letter and receive it by email, in pdf format, please visit : www.sibileau.com/martin ) We start a week in which $236BN in bills and coupons will be supplied. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the last days has been...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Jul 26 2009

Economics in One Lesson校译之26. The Lesson After Thirty Years (2-1)

The Lesson after Thirty Years 第三篇三十年后的这堂课第26章三十年后的这堂课 The first edition of this book appeared in 1946. It is now, as I write this, thirty-two years later. How much of the lesson expounded in the previous pages has been learned in this period? 本书第一版是1946年面市的...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sun, Jul 26 2009

Examples of shortages caused by price controls

Economic theory predicts that if a government imposes a ceiling for the sales price of any good or service, usually set below the market price that would result from the interaction of competing suppliers and demanders, there will be shortages of goods...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sun, Jul 26 2009

Filed under: coffee, Venezuela, pork, chicken, flour, corn, price ceiling, excess demand, eggs, sugar, rice, milk, wheat, shortage

Economics in One Lesson校译之25. The Lesson Restated (4-3,4)

第25章课后温习（接前面部分） 3 In the course of our study, also, we have rediscovered an old friend. He is the Forgotten Man of William Graham Sumner. The reader will remember that in Sumner’s essay, which appeared in 1883: 在我们的研究过程中，我们还重新发现了一位老朋友。他就是威廉·格雷厄姆·萨姆纳...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Jul 25 2009

Economics in One Lesson校译之25. The Lesson Restated (4-1,2)

The Lesson Restated 第25章课后温习 Economics , as we have now seen again and again, is a science of recognizing secondary consequences. It is also a science of seeing general consequences. It is the science of tracing the effects of some proposed or existing...