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The Disabled Car Because of Missing or Broken Essential Parts Problem

Sparsely scattered over Austrian and other economic literature are treatments of both the valuation and the factor pricing (separately) of essential parts of an automobile whose absence or malfunction prevent the automobile from serving its intended end...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Tue, Feb 3 2009

Futbol Monograph #1

Occasionally it is good to back away from the doom and gloom of daily life, like torture, economic apocalypse, and government malfeasance, and look at something that doesn’t matter. It just so happens that these two criteria – something that...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Feb 3 2009

Filed under: futbol, Soccer, football, GOLTV, commercials, fussbol, Fox Soccer Channel, GOL TV

A Critique of Externalities

“Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to claim all the advantages which the good’s employment may generate on the one hand and would burden him with all the disadvantages resulting from its employment...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Tue, Feb 3 2009

John Law : French to English translation needed for Mises TMC footnote

From Theory of Money and Credit, pg. 106 : 1 More than two hundred years ago, John Law, far ahead of his time and with an insight amounting to genius, had seized upon this truth: 'II est raisonnable de penser que I'argent s'echangeait sur...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Mon, Feb 2 2009

Economics in One Lesson Chapter Breakdown

This is the first in a series of summaries and analyses on the landmark book Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. The book introduces a layperson to clear economic thought. No economics background is necessary to understand this timeless lesson ...

Posted to Revolutionist's Book Review by revolutionist on Mon, Feb 2 2009

Filed under: Book Review, Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

If It's Wrong, It's Wrong

America means something. America is different. It really is. As far as I know, and I don’t know everything – close, but not all – there has never been a situation where a man from a class of people imported as slaves, has risen to be...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Mon, Feb 2 2009

Filed under: America, Liberty, Freedom, Gitmo, Guantanomo, Torture, detention, Due Process

Mikhail Bakunin and Collectivist Anarchism

Mikhail Bakunin was the Russian father of the strain of anarchism known as collectivist anarchism. He was initially loosely associated with both Karl Marx and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and eventually he developed anarcho-collectivism using both of them...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Jan 31 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin

Here we go again....

The car crushing ideas are back. I knew these were coming and first learned of the proposals not too long after the election. Now they are getting more serious about it. From an LRC blog post I read about the latest ideas to crush older cars. Crushing...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Sat, Jan 31 2009

Gustave De Molinari and The Production of Security

Gustave De Molinari was a radical classical liberal associated with Frederic Bastiat and the French liberal school of economics. In his work "The Production of Security", Molinari was the first economist to propose the possibility of free competition...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Fri, Jan 30 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Minarchism, Competition, Monopoly, Libertarianism, Economics, Free Trade, History, Anarcho-Capitalism, Murray Rothbard, Frederic Bastiat, Gustave De Molinari

Benjamin Tucker: American Anarchist

Benjamin Tucker was arguably the leading figure of individualist anarchism in America in the 19th century. He was the editor and chief of the classic anarchist periodical "Liberty", which involved many key figures in early individualist anarchism...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 29 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Coercive Monopoly, Natural Rights, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Labor, Free Trade, History, Anarcho-Capitalism, Mutualism, Murray Rothbard, Egoism, Max Stirner, Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, Natural Law

Hot Links!

C and P primer from NPR. More on the name game of crime. Rural folk even those from the state like guns more. Collateral damage from the war on drugs . Crime rise amongst older Japanese. Using criminals to fight crime. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Jan 29 2009

Filed under: crime, links, punishment

Bruce Bartlett: Conservatives should accept the need for more taxes, and focus on limiting the damage

Bruce Bartlett , who worked in both the Reagan and Pappy Bush administrations and was a trenchant critic of the recent Bush administration, has a new article in the Politico that argues that conservatives should resign themselves to rising welfare costs...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jan 29 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, Bruce Bartlett, taxes, deficit

The Evolution Of Herbert Spencer

The British philosopher Herbert Spencer was a vital player in the developement of theories of evolution in the 19th century. It's important to note that Spencer was one of the first proponents of the theory of socio-cultural evolution, and social...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 28 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Utilitarianism, Social Evolution, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Human Nature, History, Marxism, Herbert Spencer

GMU recidivism study

What do researchers with over a million dollars of funding from the National Institute for Health look for first when tracking released inmates? Drum roll please..."are they paying their taxes?" Check it out. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Wed, Jan 28 2009

Filed under: recidivism, gmu

Libertarian law prof. Jonathan Adler warns of CO2 regulatory runaway train that Bush bequeathed to Obama; recommends rebated carbon taxes

Libertarian law professor Jonathan H. Adler , of Case University, The Volokk Conspiracy law blog and NRO contributing editor, has a post up at NRO explaining why conservatives ought to be pushing for a "revenue-neutral carbon tax" as the best...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jan 28 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, adler, EPA