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Frank Zappa: Slime is the tool of the Government (and of modern politics)

[I ran this originally as a "page" rather than as a "post", when I had simply put up Zappa`s lyrics. Since "posts" might be more visible to visitors I`ve decided to post this as well.] I ran across some interesting and topical...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Apr 20 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, government, bush, cognition, politics, Zappa, MSM, Rove, clinton, obama

Interview with Takashi Uesugi, truth-telling former NYT journalist now hated and frozen out by TEPCO, Japanese government and MSM

With permission from the bilingual online journal Time Out Tokyo , I bring to you in its entirety an interview by their reporter James Hadfield with Japanese freelance journalist Takahashi Uesugi , a critic of the Japanese news reporting establishment...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Apr 3 2011

Falacias de la Teoría de los Bienes Públicos y la Producción de Seguridad

Por Hans-Hermann Hoppe Reproducido de The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, Kluwer Academic Press, Norwell, Mass., 1993. Autorizaci6n otorgada por el autor para traducir y publicar en Libertas. En 1849, cuando el liberalismo clásico era...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Nov 8 2008

Checks and Balances: Two Kinds

Checks and balances should be a fairly familiar concept to Americans. The standard definition of checks and balances is that the state must be broken up into multiple segments that function as checks against eachother's power and perform different...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Nov 28 2007

Filed under: Competition, Collusion, Decentralization, Centralization, Monopoly, Checks and Balances

Montesquieu sobre el comercio

Por Gary Galles. (Publicado el 18 de enero de 2010). Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/4031 . El 18 de enero se conmemora el nacimiento de Charles Louis de Secondat, Barón de...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 19 2010

Filed under: libre mercado, Gary Galles, Montesquieu

Sir Thomas Smith: Mercantilista por una moneda fuerte

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 2 de septiembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4676 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Sep 3 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, mercantilismo, Inglaterra, Thomas Gresham, Thomas Smith, John Hale

¡Levantaos, campesinos! Los croquants del siglo XVII

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 22 de julio de 2001) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4572 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento económico...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Jul 28 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, croquants

Qué sabemos acerca de los bancos? - Parte I

Octubre de 2007 Por Sergei D. Lozovoi-Koscheev – ver su Blog Reconomics Aquellos de nosotros que estudiamos Economía conocemos la capacidad que tienen los bancos de crear dinero. Este concepto es introducido en cada curso de estudios universitarios...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Oct 6 2007

Keynes, el hombre

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 18 de noviembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3845 . [Publicado originalmente en Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Mar 13 2011

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, biografía, John Maynard Keynes

Does reality hit back?

One may start wondering. Is it time that reality hits back? That money printing is a problem and not a cure? At least it seems so. In Germany the economy encounters troubles, the export oriented firms (we do have a lot of them) see that the other countries...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Sat, Sep 1 2012

Filed under: inflation, markets, money printing, stupditiy

Bison and the Theft of the Commons

[Updated, as noted] [I now view this as my first "Avatar" post. February 15, 2010.] My attention was drawn today to a letter to the editor published by The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) , an organization of free-thinkers who...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Dec 16 2007

Filed under: markets, Indians, Bison, PERC, tragedy of the commons, property rights, P.J. Hill, theft, Jared Diamond, Avatar

The Law of the Color Red

I remember in the younger days of my still-youthfulness some clever folk talking about the rural area in which I grew up as "not even important enough to have a stoplight." These folk spoke pejoratively, as if any town small enough were not...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Tue, Dec 11 2007

Filed under: yield, stop lights, stop signs, traffic regulation, free driving, law of the color red

Early bird gets WAR CE

On a lighter note than usual, one of the games I've been looking forward to is Warhammer Online. It seems basically Warcraft, minus the small fact that Warcraft is in fact a cheap rip-off of it. I'm not much of the MMORPG enthusiast, but I'm...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sat, Aug 9 2008

Filed under: Disappointed

Speech and Sociopaths: Does it make sense to collapse, for Constitutional and legal purposes, the distinctions between human beings and corporate "persons"?

Further to my preceding posts on corporate "free speech" , let me copy here for those interested some parts of a post by legal blogger/law prof Kimberly Hauser , and excerpts of the comment thread (emphasis added). Says Hauser: Justice Kennedy...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 11 2010

Filed under: constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection

¡Libertarismo para dummies!

Por Fergus Hodgson (Publicado el 1 de febrero de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5004 . [ Libertarianism Today • Jacob H. Huebert • Praeger, 2010 • vii + 254...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Feb 2 2011

Filed under: crítica de libros, libertarismo, Jacob Huebert, Fergus Hodgson