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FUNDAMENTOS de la Sociedad "Propiedad y Libertad" - Property and Freedom Society

Declaración inaugural de la reunión en Bodrum, Turquía, mayo 2006 La Sociedad "Propiedad y Libertad" (Property and Freedom Society) se manifiesta por un radicalismo intelectual sin compromisos: en defensa de la propiedad...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Fri, May 23 2008

Is Copyright Infringement Theft?

One of the hardest things to swallow for me is the concept that every single copyright infringement is somehow akin to theft. The copyright infringer usually expends his own resources and utilizes his own labor to produce a product that is similar or...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, May 22 2008

Filed under: copyright

Today, ignorance; Tomorrow, education

Many people perhaps dream of an executive position in a wealthy, well-to-do business. To manage and direct people! to be the boss. But few people are. The reason should be obvious: it takes a certain kind of skill and talent to successfully direct the...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, May 22 2008

Filed under: ron paul, government intervention, oil execs, airlines, excessive profits, Kathie Lee Gifford, skyway robbery, energy, inflation, The Today Show, foreign policy

Krugman/NYT heralds the beginning of the end for suburban sprawl

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/19/opinion/edkrugman.php?WT.mc_id=newsalert . Maybe next we'll see Krugman and others supporting an end to the gas-tax subsidized federal highway system?

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, May 21 2008

Filed under: suburban sprawl, Krugman, federal highways, New York Times

Does Social Evolution Necessitate Decentralization?

Social evolution can be thought of in terms of increased complexity . Simple forms of organization are uniliteral and homogenous, while more complexity in an organizational structure implies pluralism . Increased plurality, combined with a finite number...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, May 21 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Decentralization, Centralization, The Calculation Problem, Social Evolution, Entropy, Economics

Reflexiones sobre el Estado y la Guerra

Por Hans Hermann Hoppe Convencionalmente el estado se define como una agencia con dos características únicas. La primera, que es un monopolio territorial compulsivo de última instancia en la toma de decisiones (jurisdicción...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, May 20 2008

NBC castigated for kowtowing insufficiently to the Propagandist-in-Chief

A rather extraordinary series of public communications directed from the White House towards NBC News by Ed Gillespie - long-time lobbyist, "communications" specialist and former director of the Republican National Committee and now chief replacement...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, May 20 2008

Filed under: bush, MSM, Iraq, Olbermann, appeasement, media, NBC, Steve Capus, Ed Gillespie

La Idea de una Sociedad de Derecho Privado

Por Hans Hermann Hoppe Sólo, en su isla, Robinsón Crusoe puede hacer cualquier cosa que le plazca. Para él no existen preguntas con respecto a reglas organizadas de conducta humana, cooperación social. Simplemente no salen...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, May 20 2008

Monarquía, Democracia y Orden Natural

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Teoría e historia Quisiera mostrarles, en un plano de abstracción superior, de qué modo la teoría resulta imprescindible para interpretar correctamente la historia. La Historia -la secuencia de acontecimientos...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, May 20 2008

Porqué nos gobiernan los peores

By Hans-Hermann Hoppe Una de las tesis más extensamente aceptadas entre los economistas políticos es la siguiente: Todos los monopolios son malos desde el punto de vista de los consumidores. Por monopolio se entiende, en su sentido clásico...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, May 20 2008

Furious Citizens

Kimberley Strassel writes in the Wall St. Journal that citizens are more than a bit peeved with their government. "The state of the union is angry. Citizens are furious about gas prices and health-care costs, broken schools and property taxes. These...

Posted to Cigars, Scotch and Anarchy by libertyboom on Mon, May 19 2008

Filed under: gas prices, citizens, state of the union, Wall St. journal, Washington, government, voting, elections, election

As insects increasingly bite into rice crops, who should pay for crop research?

Keeping ahead of crop diseases and pests is a continual challenge, particularly as climate and weather patterns change. This challenge is in part compounded by the involvement of governments around the world in in subsidizing the consumption of certain...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, May 18 2008

Filed under: climate change, food, research, adaptation, famine, rice, subsidies

There is no place like home....really

Last night was a terrible night by itself, there was no escaping from what happened last night, believe nothing. Summed to the terrible conditions I had to go through yesterday are the unexistant exits to overcome or even forget for one minute what just...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Sun, May 18 2008

LA residents to drink recycled sewage, plus more on water rights "reform"

1. According to the New York Times , in the face of the difficulties and high costs of obtaining rights to more water, the mayor of LA has just announced plans for $1 billion in investments to increase municipal water supplies by capturing water from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, May 17 2008

Filed under: water rights, reform

"Worldwatch" enviro group praises moves to water rights and markets in China

Yingling Liu , manager of the China Program at the Worldwatch Institute , has praised recent steps by Chinese water authorities to clarify rights to water and to encourage water trading as a means to resolve serious issues over the use of water. Here...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, May 17 2008

Filed under: markets, China, water rights, state action

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FUNDAMENTOS de la Sociedad "Propiedad y Libertad" - Property and Freedom Society

Is Copyright Infringement Theft?

Today, ignorance; Tomorrow, education

Krugman/NYT heralds the beginning of the end for suburban sprawl

Does Social Evolution Necessitate Decentralization?

Reflexiones sobre el Estado y la Guerra

NBC castigated for kowtowing insufficiently to the Propagandist-in-Chief

La Idea de una Sociedad de Derecho Privado

Monarquía, Democracia y Orden Natural

Porqué nos gobiernan los peores

Furious Citizens

As insects increasingly bite into rice crops, who should pay for crop research?

There is no place like home....really

LA residents to drink recycled sewage, plus more on water rights "reform"

"Worldwatch" enviro group praises moves to water rights and markets in China