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Lysander Spooner: Libertarian Hero

The American individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner was one of the last natural law philosophers of the 19th century, and his crowning achievement is arguably the total demolition of the myth of the social contract. Spooner applied a libertarian theory...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 28 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, Social Contract, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Murray Rothbard, Egoism, Max Stirner, Benjamin Tucker, Natural Law, Lysander Spooner

Remembering Proudhon

Many contemporary libertarians may be mystified at Proudhon being considered a libertarian, but Proudhon was undoubtably the first genuinely libertarian socialist. Proudhon's political philosophy represents a synthesis of sorts between classical liberalism...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Jan 27 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Mutualism, Communism, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin

A blinded Alan Blinder fails to see any Fed missteps in creating, anticipating or responding to the financial crisis

In the January 24 New York Times , Alan S. Blinder , professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve , argues that our worst postwar recession does not represent a fundamental failure of the American...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 26 2009

Filed under: Federal Reserve, Hank Paulson, Greenspan, Alan Blinder, LTCM

The Gap between politics and economics

For all the recent talk about a unified nation there seem to be some undeniable rifts in opinion as of lately. First a brief comment on partisanship. As I already mentioned I've been watching the stimulus package committee meetings on CSPAN and they...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Jan 26 2009

Filed under: stimulus, politics, profession

"Lemon Socialism" - liberal Obama advisor Robert Reich regrets the bailouts, but wants massive stimulus

An opinion piece at TPM Cafe by liberal economist Robert Reich - the Harvard (now Berkeley) econ. prof. who is a member of Pres. Barack Obama 's economic advisory team and was Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton - has caught my eye. In it, Reich correctly...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 26 2009

Filed under: bailouts, socialism, Robert Reich

Fisher vs Mises: La confrontación ha llegado finalmente

Carta de Gary North a Joe Salerno. Joe Salerno: Departamento de Economía - Pace University Ciudad de Nueva York Querido Joe: Me dirijo a usted porque lo considero como el hombre del momento, al menos por los próximos 18 meses. Más...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sun, Jan 25 2009

Struggling With Max Stirner

I have a great amount of respect for the near-forgotten figure Max Stirner. His ill-famed "The Ego and His Own" is probably the most radical, thought provoking and challenging writting that I have ever read. Not only did Stirner explicitly take...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Jan 25 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Self-interest, Religion, Philosophy, Marxism, Psychology, Frederich Neitzsche, Ayn Rand, Egoism, Max Stirner

BonJour, again

I'm well over half way into BonJour's excellent book, and have read his rejoinders to objections to the tenability of a moderate rationalist epistemology. I won't concern myself much with these (but I believe he's done an excellent job...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sat, Jan 24 2009

On Amoralist Anarchism

I've been a part of numerous online social networks or general social groups online that contains some amoralist anarchists, who either are former libertarian anarchists who have come to reject libertarianism or they are anarchists who rejected libertarianism...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Thu, Jan 22 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Stefan Molyneux

Stimulus committee

Last night I stopped the clicker on CSPAN for a while, it was one of the stimulus package committee meetings. Man these things are better drama then anything else that's on TV! There was some obvious tension across party lines. Democrats presented...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, Jan 22 2009

Filed under: obama, stimulus

Numerophilia

Milton Friedman did much to further the cause for political freedom during the 20th century, and helped to dispel many popular economic fallacies. However, although Friedman was mostly in favour of the free market where political policy is concerned,...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Jan 22 2009

What President Obama could have said

Newly sworn-in President Barak H. Obama could have said a lot of things during his inaugural address today. He could have said that he recognizes that the current financial crisis is a direct result of interference by the Federal government in the workings...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Tue, Jan 20 2009

Filed under: economics, liberty, Obama

A Truly Great Day

Today is a great day to be an American. For the first time in the history of the United States, a black man will become the President of this land. Today a black man becomes the most powerful individual in the world. It would be easy to become a lemming...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Jan 20 2009

Filed under: racism, America, Inauguration, Liberty, Obama, Freedom

The money of science fiction.

In science fiction it is often interesting to see how money is treated. Most movies and television series barely touch on it. Usually money is refered to as 'credits' or some other form of computer accounting. Rarely is there any sort of currency...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Mon, Jan 19 2009