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Anarquía en los cielos

Por Markus Bergstrom. (Publicado el 12 de mayo de 2008) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2970 . La idea de abolir toda regulación pública del sector de la aviación...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Sep 10 2010

Filed under: aviación, Markus Bergström

WSJ provides great coverage of big jump in BP lobbying focussed on Obama, Dems, but uninterested in Cheney's secret meetings

1. The Wall Street Journal published an interesting piece on May 27 by Elizabeth Williamson on BP's pro-drilling/damage control lobbying: BP Aims to Avoid Fresh Restrictions on Drilling , but it seemed to me that it too quickly skated past the eight...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Jun 20 2010

Blogging Menger

This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. This is based on a post originally written on January 25, 2009. Jeffrey Tucker , editorial vice president at the Ludwig von Mises Institute , and one of the few libertarian...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Fri, Jun 19 2009

Filed under: Carl Menger, Economics

Austrian Economic Dilettante

First blog post. I am a toddler when it comes to Austrian Economics and libertarianism. I personally considered myself aligned with the liberal (in the American sense). I was never officially part of the democrats or greens or any other party. I couldn't...

Posted to Free Markets, Free Minds, Free Me. by ViennaSausage on Thu, Jul 3 2008

Greenspan On A Possible Recession

Alan Greenspan gave an interview to NPR News' Morning Edition. Here is an excerpt ( via AP ): Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the odds the U.S. will fall into a recession are "clearly rising"... He said he felt this way...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Thu, Dec 13 2007

Filed under: business cycles, greenspan

Standing in buckets

Government taxes mean that individuals and corporations only keep a certain portion of their gains whilst at the same time they realize 100% of their losses. As Hazlitt put it in Economics in One Lesson : "When a corporation loses 100 cents of every...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Tue, Jan 6 2009

Art on crime

A brief but good comment by friend Art Carden. Prison is not the answer. In a recent set of lectures given on behalf of the Institute for Humane Studies, Georgetown University legal scholar John Hasnas argued in favor of restitution as opposed to incarceration...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Sep 8 2008

Filed under: independent institute, art carden, prison

The Motorama Dystopia, version 2

It was just another ordinary morning to set out to go to work. Joe was stepping inside his new car. It cost him a great deal but at least he still could drive. Most people were no longer allowed to drive or couldn't afford it. Those who could afford...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Sat, Dec 6 2008

Rand Paul: a caricature of libertarian views on energy

Unfortunately, on energy issues Rand Paul , Republican candidate for the US Senate from Kentucky, sounds like very much like the classic Republican statist/apologist for corporate irresponsibility. I find myself agreeing with "investigative satirist"...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 17 2010

A View from the Trenches, January 5th, 2010: "Archimedes' principle revisited"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: january-5-2009 The year started with a very straightforward session of USD weakness. To me, the trade was very simple. At 10am yesterday, with the release of the macro data of the day (ISM Manufacturing...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Jan 5 2010

a new blog on the economics of graffiti

the economics of graffiti blog at http://economicsofgraffiti.blogspot.com/ is new but very interesting. I would consider most of the content sociology or anthropology but the summary paragraph hints at some incentive and cost benefit analysis. "economists...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, May 29 2008

Filed under: graffiti

¿Es Obama realmente “el CEO de nuestra nación”?

Por Briggs Armstrong. (Publicado el 13 de octubre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4757 . La CNBC organizó recientemente una reunión general con un individuo...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Oct 14 2010

Filed under: Briggs Armstrong, política

The Economy is Like a Balance Sheet

The Economy is Like a Balance Sheet by Alex Merced Everyone Company and Person has a balance sheet. The balance sheet is made up of two sides: One side has all the assets which is all the stuff the entity has ownership (control of) this can be cash, goods...

Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Wed, Apr 14 2010

Filed under: Public Sector, Economy, Private Sector, Assets, Equity, Balance Sheet, Liabilities

Three Trends in Austrian Economics

There are at least three distinct, but overlapping, research programmes (to use Lakatos' term) in Austrian economics, at least according to Rothbard. Each of these styles of thought can rightfully claim to be based on Mengerian insight. There is the...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Sun, Jul 12 2009

El Derecho a No Obedecer - III - De cómo no tienen razón algunos críticos

Presentaremos este documento, escrito en el año 1919, por el Maestro Fernando González, conocido como el Filósofo de Otraparte, o también como el Filósofo de Envigado (Colombia). Veremos la coincidencia de sus ideas...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, Jun 27 2009