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The Decline of Morality in the West

I believe in objective secular morality, founded on reason and universalism. I think a common mistake is the idea that if we ditch religion, we must fall back on moral relativity. Then the religious people feed on this and get to accuse secular people...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 22 2007

Filed under: Objectivism, Ethics, Universality, Determinism, Collectivism, Altruism, Religion

Bruce Yandle on the tragedy of the commons, evolution of cooperation & property, and the struggle against government theft

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Nov 20 2009

Filed under: tragedy of commons, ostrom, yandle, evolution, cooperation, Avatar

Liberty Lost?

Liberty Lost? Or To What Extent Have the United States of America Become Collectivist To The Detriment of Individualism? This dissertation charts the changes throughout history in the balance between collectivism and individualism in United States federal...

Posted to shed by Shed on Thu, Apr 16 2009

Filed under: education, usa, essay, liberty, dissertation, history

Créanos: la Seguridad Social funciona

Por Mark R. Crovelli. (Publicado el 7 de abril de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4226 . Leo habitualmente Counterpunch.com por dos razones. Primera, visito el sitio por sus...

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

Filed under: Seguridad Social, Dave Lindorff, Mark R. Crovelli

Scott Sumner misses government role in "sh*t happens"; epitomizes discussions of BP/offshore oil development

Another BP post ! 1. Over on his The Money Illusion blog, Chicago-school economist Scott Sumner has a curiously uninsightful post up on the BP oil spill: " Stuff Happens ". Perhaps some of my friendly enviro-hater readers here might like it...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Jun 9 2010

Bringing Weber Back into Economics: Introduction

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In their attempt at aping the physical sciences, the neoclassical economists have reduced man to an automaton. His actions are entirely dependent on variables in a set of simultaneous equations. Actually...

Posted to Kaleidic Society by ziragt on Thu, Jun 4 2009

Sheldon Richman doesn't feel sorry for BP, either

As a follow-up to Lew Rockwell 's Feel Sorry for BP? and my two sets of comments on it ( Risk-shifting, BP and those nasty enviros , and Poor statists! If we close our eyes tightly enough, we can see clearly that Corporations are innocent VICTIMS...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, May 14 2010

Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall!

This week we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of one of the 20th Century's most shining moments - the Fall of the Berlin Wall. A barrier that represented far more than an edifice of concrete and steel. The Berlin Wall represented a rift across...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Tue, Nov 10 2009

Filed under: Lemmings, socialism, capitalism, Freedom, Republican, democrat, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Pelosi, Berlin Wall, Harry Reid, totalitarianism, Communist, Barack Obama, lemming, liberalty, opperssion

Futbol Monograph #2

I recently learned an interesting piece of trivia. As everyone knows, only Americans call soccer, ‘soccer’. In other countries it is variously known as football, futbol, fusball, or other variants of foot + ball. It makes sense, since soccer...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Feb 25 2009

Entertainment Industry Declares War on Australian ISP

Thirty-four of the biggest names in the entertainment industry has declared war on Australia's third-largest internet service provider (ISP) iiNet in a suit that claims that the broadband provider is partly responsible for its users' breach of...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Thu, Nov 27 2008

Filed under: copyfight

Good for me, but not for you?

Reading the comments on this article , the thing that must surely strike one as amazing: the readiness with which the words "greed" or "profit" are demonized, and, on the other hand, with which words like "non-profit" or...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Fri, May 9 2008

Filed under: Altruism greed hypocrisy double standard

An Example of the State of Higher Eduction

Among the classes that I am taking at the University of Massachusetts Amherst includes an introduction to political economy, and, ever since the first day of class, it has been not only disappointing, but consisting only in fallacies. Nevertheless, everything...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Wed, Mar 25 2009

Extrema

Human beings use action to implement a perceived extremal solution for possible outcomes. At the heart all of us want to maximize our profit and minmize the costs required for the same. Entrepeneurs, corporation and politicians all apply the same logic...

Posted to George Giles by George Giles on Mon, Apr 5 2010

Filed under: Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Austrian Economic Theory, Quantitative Austrian Economics, Graph Theory, Mathematical Analysis, Combinatorics

Ocupa Wall Street: Una historia sin héroes

Por Anthony Gregory. (Publicado el 4 de octubre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5746 . El movimiento “Ocupa Wall Street” es está extendiendo. Se han...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Oct 5 2011

Filed under: crisis, Anthony Gregory, manifestaciones

The Way Out

Yesterday's post was titled, Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall! A reader, Marty Yost, was kind enough to post a comment stating that he agreed with my assessment and was impressed with the analysis I applied to the problem. I appreciate the sentiment...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Nov 11 2009

Filed under: Obama, Conservatism, Liberalism