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Caplan on optimal restitution

So this is a bit of a delayed response: After reading my paper, Caplan recently posted that he began to think about the challenge of optimally calculating restitution. While Bryan's willing to admit that the United States is excessively punitive when...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Tue, Jun 22 2010

Quantitative Austrian Economics and its Timeless Nature

History has shown that dogma is most strident as it is on the verge of overthrow. The history of science is a prime example of this assertion. Near the end of the 19th century many physicists lamented the end of physics. A generation later Relativity...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Tue, Mar 9 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory

Sr. Rubenstein, Vd. no es Adam Smith

Por James E. Miller. (Publicado el 27 de enero de 2012) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5880 . ¿Qué es el capitalismo? Parece una pregunta sencilla, pero muchos de...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jan 31 2012

Filed under: capitalismo, James E. Miller, David Rubenstein

Averiado

Por Mark Thornton. (Publicado el 22 de agosto de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/49 . [Mises Daily, 1998] No muchos estadounidenses habrán oído hablar de Richard...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Jan 21 2012

Filed under: Mark Thornton, Lowell Gallaway, Richard Vedder

Let's talk about viability now....

Ron Paul will enter the primaries and caucuses as the most viable GOP candidate. He will have the most money on hand. The Tea Party 2007 was an enormous success, raising over $6 Million dollars in 24 hours. There are two weeks left in this quarter, and...

Posted to SaladBarBeef by SaladBarBeef on Mon, Dec 17 2007

Filed under: Ron Paul viability

Sobre pensiones de capitalización

Parece que uno de los temas más debatidos en la actual precampaña es el estado del actual sistema de pensiones. El desconocimiento general sobre el actual modelo basado en el esquema Ponzi (que tan popular hizo Madoff), y la falta de acuerdo sobre la...

Posted to Efectos secundarios - Blog escrito por Jorge Ramón Muñoz by Jorge Ramón Muñoz on Thu, Mar 22 2012

¿Economistas por Bush?

Por Mark Thornton. (Publicado el 28 de agosto de 2000) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/494 . Una parte esencial de una campaña política nacional incluye alistar economistas...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Jan 12 2012

Filed under: Mark Thornton, George W. Bush

Geoengineering: Bill Gates keeps investing his personal fortune on ways to offset man's impact on climate - this time on artificial clouds to increase albedo; libertarians cheer?

Bill Gates - who clearly must have a screw loose (because all of us smarter people are absolutely sure that puny man can't possibly affect climate, unless we're trying intentionally, of course) - continues to invest in geoengineering projects...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, May 11 2010

Can a soundbite really capture market action?

Each day, the financial news channels tell us why the markets were up, or why they were down. But do they really know why ? Can it be summed up so nicely in a simple soundbite? Let's think about it for a second: Every day there are millions of different...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Wed, Sep 3 2008

Filed under: stock market

Los rebeldes contra la economía

Por Alexander Gray. (Publicado el 15 de abril de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/4250 . [Prólogo a The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin (1946)] Es un pensamiento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Apr 16 2010

Filed under: prólogo, socialismo, Alexander Gray

A View from the Trenches, September 20th, 2010: "How the Yen intervention works, Part 1"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: september-20-2010 In our last letter, we made the point that the intervention to devalue the Yen was supportive of gold. We explicitly decided to exclude from our comments the details of the intervention...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Sep 20 2010

The Business Ethics of Incarceration

My paper entitled, "The Business Ethics of Incarceration: The Moral Implications of Treating Prisons Like Businesses," is included in the latest issue of Reason Papers . The issue is a symposium on the topic of Business Ethics and definitely...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Daniel J. D'Amico on Wed, Apr 21 2010

Saumaise: Culmen de la primera teoría moderna del interés

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 3 de marzo de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4069 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento económico...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Mar 3 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, Saumaise

ISO 9000 and Meta-Law

I need to apologize; my last post was such an obtuse mess that even I didn't understand it when I wrote it. Let me try again, now that Rob Dailey's great comment to my last post has enlightened me a little. (Thanks Rob!) Peter Pronovost's...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Dec 8 2007

Graduating Early

A common option for high school students is the ability to graduate one or even two semesters early. This enables them to get a head start on college or even work in the months leading up to college to help afford the mountainous expenses they will surely...

Posted to A Discourse on Current Events by duffmann808 on Thu, Nov 20 2008