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When did it start?

Human civilization, coordination and cooperation that is. Check out these new findings : To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Oct 27 2008

Filed under: history, civilization

Cool new visuals.

In the closing pages of Calculation and Coordination , Boettke includes the basic correlations between GDP and a variety of "real" -ly important social variables: sanitation, education, life expectancy, and infant mortality among others. The...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Mar 6 2009

Filed under: energy, maps, environment, gdp

Murphy vs. Schiff

Back in September 2007 Robert Murphy posted an article concerning one of the analogies that Peter Schiff makes in his book Crash Proof . Schiff's argument is essentially that persistent trade deficits are unsustainable and Murphy's article attempts...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Sat, Dec 13 2008

Estados Unidos, ¿se acerca la legalización de las drogas?

Dice Francisco E. Thoumi en su artículo publicado por Razón Pública del 10 de Octubre de 2010 Se piensa que Washington podría cambiar su política de drogas a raíz de la violencia. Pero los obstáculos a...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Oct 11 2010

What? Us Worry?

It is a well-known Wall Street expression that “the market dislikes uncertainty.” Yet, this has seemingly been forgotten, if it was ever known, by Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) when he said “ I'm concerned that we may end up having...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: economics, State power, Wall Street

De cómo la presidencia está invadiendo nuestro hogar

Por Ben Lieberman (Publicado el 9 de noviembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4781 . [ New York Post , 11 de octubre de 2010] La administración Obama no está...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Nov 9 2010

Filed under: electrodomésticos, Ben Lieberman

Clean-up in Aisle 7; Or, In Which I Heroically Litter Walter Block's Post on Littering

I refer to Walter Block's the July 14 Mises Blog post Defending the Litterer , an excerpt of his "Defending the Undefendable" book. In his final two paragraphs, Block concludes: In the light of the inflexibility of the government, and its...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jul 25 2010

A View from the Trenches, August 17th, 2009: Back to March levels?

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: http:www.sibileau.com/martin I thought it would be worthwhile to start the week describing how the last one ended. Today’s letter will be merely descriptive (vs. the typical analytical format...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Sun, Aug 16 2009

No Equations in Austrian Econometrics

Equality as a state of existence has been much sought after. We seek equal pay, equal protection before the law, equality of opportunity, equality between the races and equality among nations. Keynesian Economists use equations to justify under the facade...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Fri, Mar 26 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory, Quantitative Austrian Economics, Graph Theory

La nueva confusión acerca de los impuestos

Por D.W. MacKenzie. (Publicado el 9 de noviembre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/5791 . Barack Obama declaró recientemente que si un republicano gana las próximas...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Nov 9 2011

Filed under: D. W. MacKenzie, impuestos

Class warfare in America

We all know that anger is a powerful emotion. Politicians know this well and often work to deliberately fan the flames of anger in order to attain their own goals. Some, such as Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo, Mao Tse Tung, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, attain...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Sat, Oct 24 2009

A few things, just to keep some record straigt:

Well now we know it Getting killed by your government is fine In Europe and the US are the Booms not cumulating. We have near all-time heights in stock prices. That shows but one thing: Inflation at work. Here in Germany the Deutsche Bahn spends another...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Mar 5 2013

Filed under: Deutsche Bahn, lies, deledefs, burning money, Stuttgart 21

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

The Action-Axiom: A Kantian Understanding of the Action-Axiom, and Its Praxeological Conclusions

The synthetic a priori judgment can guide our comprehension of the action-axiom, and similarly can do so for our comprehension of the entire structure of praxeology, more specifically its advantages over empirical techniques. The synthetic a priori is...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Tue, Jun 9 2009

Filed under: Praxeology, Action-Axiom, Synthetic A Priori

A Breif Response to John Lott

John Lott is an empirical scholar of great talent. He does not allow moral theorizing to be bold without backup. Thus he is skeptical of Loury's characterization of the American criminal justice system as racist because the hard facts seem to tell...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Tue, Mar 17 2009

Filed under: Prisons, john lott, cato unbound, incentives, punishments