Blogs

MIT's "Technology Review" on the regulatory obstacles to a "smart grid" needed for open, competitive electricity markets

David Talbot , chief correspondent for the MIT Technology Review , has an excellent, long piece in the January/February online issue that explores some the of intra- and inter-state regulatory hurdles that frustrate both the expansion of renewable power...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 6 2009

Filed under: power, climate change, regulation

Objects Are Morally Neutral

I've always been a stickler for the notion that objects are morally neutral. This notion usually comes to play in debates about gun prohibition, to counter people essentially claiming that guns are causal determinant for violence in and of themselves...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jul 17 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Philosophy, Prohibition, Crime and Punishment, Primitivism

Marlo Lewis/CEI laughs at the ice sheets and Gore; Lloyd's and other insurers do not. Hmmm.

Andy Revkin of the NYT recently posted at his "Dot Earth" blog an update by a scientist to the effect that apparently the increasing summer melt in Greenland is not markedly lubricating glacier flow . While this doesn't alter the fact that...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 16 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, Antarctica, Greenland, Jim Hansen, Mario Lewis, Lloyds, WAIS

The Curse of Limited Liability; WSJ.com: Executives/traders of big financial corporations generate risky business, while smaller partnerships are much more risk averse

The February 25 Wall Street Journal carries an insightful piece of commentary by James K. Glassman (president of the World Growth Institute and a former undersecretary of state) and William T. Nolan (president of Devonshire Holdings and former associate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 26 2009

Filed under: limited liability, partnerships

Robert Sohn of Wood's Hole: the 1999 Arctic seafloor volcanic explosions are NOT responsible for rapid sea ice melting

In personal email correspondence with me, geophysicist Robert A. Sohn , the lead scientist on the international team that reported last week about powerful explosive volcanic activity in 1999 in the deep Arctic Ocean seafloor has strongly rejected the...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jul 2 2008

Filed under: climate change, volcanoes, Revkin, Arctic, Rob Sohn, AGQ

La cooperación humana

Por Ludwig von Mises y Bettina Bien Greaves. (Publicado el 5 de mayo de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4317 . [Extraído de Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, May 5 2010

Filed under: Ludwig von Mises, libre mercado, cooperación, Bettina Bien Greaves

Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles"

Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 14 2008

Filed under: climate, Carbon Principles, voluntary

Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums

In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Feb 23 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, enviros, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

The Difference Between Inflation and Increasing Price Levels

The Difference Between Inflation and Increasing Price Levels by Alex Merced One of the biggest debates right now is the inflation versus deflation debate, and much of this debate hinges on the events in consumer goods prices, but can inflation occur even...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Sat, Jul 17 2010

Filed under: Inflation, Central Banks, Bank Reserves, Hyperinflation, Currency, Deflation, Debate, Dollar

Ley, derechos de propiedad y contaminación del aire

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 22 de abril de 2006) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2120 . La ley como disciplina normativa La ley es una serie de órdenes; los principios...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Jan 21 2011

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, contaminación, Cato Journal, responsabilidad

Breaking the senseless impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development - a tax and rebate proposal

It's long been obvious that: (1) government policy concerning the use of public lands is highly bureaucratized, often inept and subject to behind the scenes sweet deals favoring insiders; (2) discussions about how the public lands should be used often...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 15 2008

Filed under: carbon pricing, John Baden, climate change, ANWR, William Anderson, government ownership, OCS

Ética y Economía de la Propiedad Privada

Por Hans-Hermann Hoppe Publicado en Inglés el 10/15/2004 I. El problema del orden social Sólo, en su isla, Robinsón Crusoe puede hacer cualquier cosa que desee. Para él no existen preguntas con respecto a reglas organizadas...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Apr 19 2008

El Mecanismo de Destruccion de Capitales

Antal E Fekete Universidad del Estándar del Oro Disertación ante el Comité para la Investigación y la Educación Monetaria - CMRE - Cena Anual, 16 de octubre, 2008 Ciudad de Nueva York Señora Presidente, Señor...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Oct 16 2008

Algunas nociones fundamentales sobre la naturaleza benévola del Capitalismo

Nos informan a través del Facebook de Frabixio Terán de que Juan Fernando Carpio ha traducido el artículo de Mises Daily "Some Fundamental Insights Into de Benevolent Natura of Capitalism", publicado el 24 de octubre de...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, Feb 14 2011

Filed under: capitalismo, George Reisman

Antarctic cooling? Or WHY "The Antarctic Ain't Cooperating" [Updated]

[Significant update at bottom] I've decided to put up this little post in connection with Walter Block's recent post, http://blog.mises.org/archives/007828.asp , in order to avoid having my comment stuck in a spam filter (I've found that comments...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Mar 2 2008

Filed under: James Hansen, Block, ozone, Antarctica, climate change, Pat Michaels, British Antactic Survey, fossil fuels