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A kinder, gentler capitalism

It is not always easy to understand the thinking behind calls for a more 'humane' form of capitalism. These calls seem to arise mainly from the left and from corporate leaders who wish to seem compassionate. For example, recently the CEO of a...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Tue, Apr 29 2008

Ed Dolan on Other People's Money: Government, Oil Spills, Financial Crises & Limited Liaibility

Ed Dolan (Professor at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia and editor of the Austrian classic, The Foundations of Modern Austrian Economics (online here ), and author of the classic pamphlet TANSTAAFL: An Economic Strategy for the Environmental...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jun 8 2010

IP and the individual: does man act alone? Are "rights" personal or a group solution to a common problem?

I wish to make note of a brief comment thread in the blog comments to Stephan Kinsella 's October 22 Mises Daily post, Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics : Mushindo October 25, 2010 at 9:27 am Artistic aspects aside,...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Nov 7 2010

Can deflation end unions once and for all?

It is often remarked that the existence of unions is proof of the inefficiency and failure of markets to pay workers adequate wages. That workers, as a great multitude with little individual influence, must form socialistic collectives in order to provide...

Posted to Solredime by Solredime on Tue, Dec 29 2009

Filed under: regulation, intervention, sticky, unions, trade unions, deflation, inflation, competition, sticky wages, raising prices, raising wages

My two cents on Free Banking: Why Austrians fail at pitching it and how it could be fixed

I thought I would throw these thoughts to the Mises.org crowd: Canada, where I work, has only 5 big banks. These banks play a sort of "money distribution" role in the system. Money flows from the Bank of Canada to these banks, which later allocate...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Nov 18 2009

Barack Obama asegura una larga depresión

Por Benjamin Weingarten. (Publicado el 11 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3907 . El éxito político, como se refleja en las últimas elecciones...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Dec 13 2009

Filed under: crisis, Benjamin Weingarten, Barack Obama

Economics in One Lesson校译之7. The Curse of Machinery (4-1)

The Curse of Machinery 第7章机器之祸 AMONG THE MOST viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance create unemployment. Destroyed a thousand times, it has risen a thousand times out of its own ashes as hardy and vigorous as ever...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Prices, and Production: Lecture III, Part II

Once again, as done in previous lectures, we shall analyze the results of a scenario where consumers decide to save, and accordingly invest a larger portion of their income than before; however, here we shall see the effects the price of goods will have...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Thu, Jun 25 2009

Filed under: F.A. Hayek, Prices and Production, economics, theory of capital, markets

Job Creation, Job Deletion

The thought of "job creation"—you know, such as how Barack Obama or John McCain are going to create "such-and-such number of new jobs" to stimulate the economy—has been on my mind a lot recently. It's probably because...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Aug 28 2008

Filed under: Chris Morris, job deletion, FDA, job placement, Brass Eye, job creation

El mito del gran encuentro de los ferrocarriles

Por Mark A. Pribonic. (Publicado el 4 de abril de 2007) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2522 . En unas recientes vacaciones blancas en Utah, mi hija y yo nos tomamos un respiro...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 7 2011

Filed under: ferrocarril, Mark A. Pribonic

Economics in One Lesson校译之7. The Curse of Machinery (4-3,4)

第7章机器之祸（接前面部分） 3 Not all inventions and discoveries, of course, are “labor-saving” machines. Some of them, like precision instruments, like nylon, lucite, plywood and plastics of all kinds, simply improve the quality of products. Others...

Posted to dingdong by Dingdong Pu on Sat, Jun 27 2009

Fracasa el “origen” del estado

Por Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (Publicado el 1 de septiembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4663 . Hace dos años, la economía se veía gravemente arrastrada...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Sep 1 2010

Filed under: crisis, Llewellyn Rockwell

On ocean drilling, it's time for Ron Bailey, oil flack (and other libertarians), to meet Ron Bailey, "tragedy of the commons" guru and to stand up for the Oil Serfs

Yes, another BP post ! I was a bit critical in my last post of Ron Bailey's suggestion that a gross "cost-benefit" analysis was a sufficient basis for supporting risky ocean drilling activities, without regard to the institutional structure...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 18 2010

Brigands as Hunters of Men; Magistrates as Farmers

Hunting and livestock farming are both ways of coercively exploiting animals. The fundamental difference is that farming is stationary and involves the "breaking in" of the animal. Aristotle thought of brigands as basically hunters. Others support...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: Aristotle, Political Philosophy

Inseguridad Social

Por Paul Cwik. (Publicado el 13 de agosto de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4595 . ¡Alegría, alegría! ¡Por fin ha llegado! No pueden creerse lo...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Aug 15 2010

Filed under: Seguridad Social, Paul Cwik