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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

No one cares, Everything is the same

It has been 10 years since the Bolivarian Revolution started (not Socialism, just the Revolution) and nothing has changed a bit, its like time has frozen and we are stuck in it. I wihsh it had frozen with everything going well (though it never was well...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Fri, May 9 2008

Filed under: Venezuela chavez blog venezuelan

The hierarchy of knowledge

People will often sneer dismissively when one makes mention of fields of inquiry such as epistemology. Naturally, such idle endeavours must be hopelessly abstract and disconnected from the world of fact - perhaps a mere curiosity for those stranded in...

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

Filed under: Positivism ethics

The Paradox of "State's Rights"

One of the most well known American legal traditions is state's rights. State's rights is essentially the idea that each individual state should retain its sovereignty or independance from the federal government. The idea is that each state may...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, May 7 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Decentralization, Centralization, Discrimination, Sovereignty, Libertarianism

The Immaculate state

Robert Nozick's conception of the immaculate state was more or less demolished by Murray Rothbard's Chapter regarding Nozick's book in The Ethics of Liberty. Of his most damaging critizisms is to point out that the most dominant police force...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Tue, May 6 2008

Resolving Anarchist Conflict

Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Mon, May 5 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Competition, Subjective Value, Capitalism, Socialism, Economics, Philosophy, Free Association, Labor, History

hourly wages.

what did Mises have to say about the hourly wage (in comparision to the piecemeal wage)?

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Mon, May 5 2008

Filed under: hourly rate., wages, pay

The Validity of End User License Agreements

Wendy Grossman explains the legal gray area that surrounds End-User License Agreements (EULA) that Microsoft et al slaps on every piece of software it sells to consumers: If you did read the terms, you might be surprised. Eulas typically specify that...

Posted to Copyfascism Watch by aheram on Sun, May 4 2008

Filed under: eula

Capitalism as the embodiment of reason

A popular contrast between capitalism and socialism is that the former is an anarchic, imperfect system, ruled by emotions, whereas the latter is a rational, planned system. The truth is the precise reverse of this. The market system is the expression...

Posted to Veritas Veritatum. by Jon Irenicus on Sun, May 4 2008

Filed under: Market rational capitalism socialism chaos

Another Typical Superhero Movie

It seems Hollywood may take a few years to catch up to the message of Ron Paul. Below is my gist of the newest Hollywood blockbuster, the superhero movie Iron Man, in bullets. Here's a quick synopsis: The main character, Tony Stark, heads a successful...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Sat, May 3 2008

Filed under: john mccain, ron paul, film, entertainment, middle east, u.s. military, war, iron man, afghanistan, movies, war profiteering, superhero, hilary clinton

GOTTERDÄMMERUNG

El crepúsculo de la deuda Irredimible por Antal E. Fekete - Universidad Viva del Patrón Oro 28 de abril de 2008 La ópera Gotterdämmerung de Wagner, es acerca del crepúsculo de los dioses paganos. El más potente...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Sat, May 3 2008

Letter to the Editor.

We are 6 months out from the election now. As far as I am aware this is the first time that all the candidates going into a general election have already had a book published. Mcain even has 3 or 4. If it were not for the awareness of the political goals...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Sat, May 3 2008

Is the criminal justice system racist?

Heather Mac Donald says no in an interesting piece in today's City Journal. The black incarceration rate is overwhelmingly a function of black crime. Insisting otherwise only worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Thu, May 1 2008

Filed under: racism, criminal justice, disparity

Organization and Conflict: Free Association vs. Politics

Free association and competition resolves conflict while politics, especially democratic politics, enables and ultimately depends on conflict. All disagreements between people about how to organize can theoretically be resolved through free association...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Apr 30 2008

Filed under: Competition, Decentralization, Centralization, Monopoly, Aesthetics, Democracy, Social Evolution, Consent, Free Association

Jared Diamond: Those in stateless societies "enjoy" lives that are murderous and short

Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 30 2008

Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond