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La guerra del aprendizaje

Por Jeffrey A. Tucker. (Publicado el 6 de abril de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4243 . Desde al menos el siglo XII hasta muy recientemente, la entrada en una profesión...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Apr 7 2010

Filed under: Jeffrey Tucker, mercado laboral, aprendizaje

La opción militar

Por Rob Blackstock. (Publicado el 16 de octubre de 2001) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/805 . Dije a mi madre que no apoyaba la acción militar en Afganistán y que...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Jul 3 2010

Filed under: Afganistan, Rob Blackstock, militarismo

Bin Laden dead! Now, "If Only We Could Shoot Climate Change in the Face," too!

Kate Sheppard's pithy and wistful observation at Mother Jones on May 4, If Only We Could Shoot Climate Change in the Face , seems wryly correct: Here are excerpts (emphasis added): Might the death of Osama bin Laden give President Obama a chance to...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, May 11 2011

Filed under: If Only We Could Shoot Climate Change in the Face

Faking Our Way to Sovereign Bankruptcy

As political events in Egypt play out, including likely contagion to other parts of Africa and the Middle East, attention is diverted from the real threat to our country -- government insolvency. From Jeff T. Allen, writing in American Thinker : There...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Feb 22 2011

Filed under: insolvency

Why aren't there any folk songs for Capitalism?

Pete Boettke recently asked this puzzling question along with another tough one: "why does capitalism produce yet fail to inspire, while socialism inspires, yet fails to produce?" in class and blog. I'm in the midst of reading Property and...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Feb 8 2008

Filed under: General Economics, capitalism, socialism, poverty, Richard Pipes

Fear and Loathing in the Establishment

To an outsider, the quirks of US politics are at times funny, and at times scary. The latest quirk seems to be coming from the Democratic side, where the fear of Ron Paul stealing their thunder is running rampant. And I am not surprised, as Ron Paul is...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Mon, Nov 26 2007

Prison stats make another new record

I saw this from the New York Times yesterday. Originally I wanted to put up a post that asked the following question: For how long will America continue to set new records in the realm of incarceration and punishment trends without a serious call for...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Fri, Feb 29 2008

Filed under: Prisons, statistics, incapacitation effect

No se trata del personal, sino del poder

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 16 de septiembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4716 . Los analistas del mercado han estado tratando de adivinar la elección...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Sep 17 2010

Filed under: Robert Murphy, intervencionismo, Elizabeth Warren

How To Make A Racist

I raised my children to be colorblind. I took no pride in doing so other than the pride I took in teaching them to walk and eat. In fact, you don't teach colorblindness. You teach racism. At the appropriate age, I sent my children to school. There...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Thu, Sep 17 2009

Filed under: racism, Obama, Healthcare, health care, Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, black history month

La Izquierda cae en la ciénaga climática

Por Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (Publicado el 11 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí http://mises.org/daily/3927 . Quizá tarde algo en hundirse, pero la causa del calentamiento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sat, Dec 12 2009

Filed under: Llewellyn Rockwell, calentamiento global

Universal Condition: Implications and Problems

This is a term paper I wrote for a freshman-level philosophy course entitled "Theories of Human Nature." I have since found this paper and added comments highlighting how the scholarly material available at mises.org has lifted me out of a dark relativist-positivist pit.

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Posted to Brent Mowery by Brent Mowery on Fri, Apr 9 2010

Filed under: relativism philosophy

By popular demand, more meta-thoughts on climate confusion

Yes, I'm Worried in Tokyo, as I keep running across tweets like this: Should Residents Of Tokyo Be Preparing For Massive Radiation Exposure? 12 Disturbing Facts To Cons.. http://bit.ly/ebOw6n But a rare comment to my recent, Yes-I'm-Still-Alive...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Mar 24 2011

הגרלות והימורים

בהתחשב במסורת הסוציאליסטית של ישראל, לא מפתיע לגלות מהו מצב ההגרלות וההימורים בישראל. הפוליטיקאים מאז קום המדינה דאגו ליצור מונופולים שיעשקו את האזרחים שמעוניינים להמר ויממנו מקורבים ובעלי עניין. למפעל הפיס (שהוא חברה פרטית בערבון מוגבל) יש מונופול שמחודש...

Posted to Making Economic Sense by giladr on Tue, Jun 9 2009

About Chinese Phonetics

About Chinese Phonetics Chinese is a graceful language whose four tones make speaking Chinese sound like singing songs. In standard Chinese, the pronunciation of one Chinese word is a syllable. For instance, “ 我的书 ” (my book) is written in...

Posted to sinocenter by sinocenter on Wed, Sep 16 2009

Corporations bow to Federal power

The Federal government has now grown so powerful that some in this nation are taking its slightest wish to be a command. The announcement on Monday by a group of major American corporation, including Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Tyco and others, that they...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Thu, Sep 24 2009

Filed under: politics, economics, constitution