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Out of Texas...

This is a little different than my usual blog posts. I just wanted to say, over the last month, I have officially escaped from Texas. It is good to be back at the Mountain (Albuquerque). I love this place. It has been 18 years since I have been here and...

Posted to IrishOutlaw by IrishOutlaw on Wed, Feb 27 2008

Chodorov explains the popular appeal of socialism.

Excerpt from Chodorov's 'Socialism By Default', from his One is a Crowd : If the run-of-the-mill American is as gullible as this literature assumes, and there is reason to believe that he is, there are nevertheless the lessons of experience...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Wed, Feb 27 2008

Nock: 'the State' is a mere perversion of 'the government'

Excerpt from Nock's Our Enemy, the State : As far back as one can follow the run of civilization, it presents two fundamentally different types of political organization. This difference is not one of degree, but of kind. It does not do to take the...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Wed, Feb 27 2008

To "turn away from good-faith discourse", first make use of pseudopsychiatry.

If pseudopsychiatry has canons, one must be Argument by Description (With Prejudicial Terms). To see this canon a'firing, read this piece by TokyoTom , wherein he observes -- with spooky language, taken as its own argument -- that Walter Block always...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Wed, Feb 27 2008

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases

Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 25 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Block, Hayek, Richman, Callahan, confirmation bias, freedom

Open Access Harvard

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Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Sun, Feb 24 2008

Filed under: harvard, internet, Technology

Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums

In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Feb 23 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, enviros, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome

A minor wish of mine

I have but one wish - reprint "The Common Sense of Political Economy" by Philip Wicksteed. Really, that book is recommended by Austrians and non-Austrians alike and I can't find it in print anywhere. I'd pay good money for a copy. Of...

Posted to Musings from an Economics Student by champthom on Thu, Feb 21 2008

Filed under: wicksteed

Free Healthcare = Shortages & Rationing

The other day my wife and I were in the supermarket. I walked over to the soup aisle to buy my favorite Campbell's soup. Unfortunately, I arrived to an empty shelf. All of the other soups were there except my favorite. Why? It was on sale. The shelf...

Posted to Love of Liberty by ChrisR on Thu, Feb 21 2008

Filed under: healthcare

¿Qué sabemos acerca de los bancos? - Parte II

Por Sergei D. Lozovoi-Koscheev – ver su Blog Reconomics Publicado en Inglés el Lunes 26 de Noviembre de 2007 11:22 AM El sistema bancario no ha sido siempre lo que es ahora. Y por supuesto no es de extrañar. Sin embargo, el hecho de...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Thu, Feb 21 2008

Mr. Lessig goes to Washington?

Wouldn't THAT be something? http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/rep-lawrence-le.html . http://boingboing.hexten.net/2008/02/18/draft-larry-lessig-f.html http://draftlessig.org/

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Feb 19 2008

Filed under: Lessig, Congress, copyright

Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment?

In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 18 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, commons, Greenwald, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Austrian, Hayek

The way in which a dealer bought a pig from a peasant.

Excerpt from Reimann's The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism : How cunning ingenuity and "private initiative" circumvent official rules in a country under totalitarian rule can be illustrated by the way in which a dealer bought...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Sat, Feb 16 2008

Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or managing/enclosing the commons?

Dave Neiwert , a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus . http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 15 2008

Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, Dave Neiwert, fisheries

Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles"

Voluntary action on climate change continues to grow. I'm not sure who noticed besides power project sponsors, financiers and regulators, but last week (on February 4) Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley , three of the world’s leading financial...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Feb 14 2008

Filed under: climate, Carbon Principles, voluntary

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Out of Texas...

Chodorov explains the popular appeal of socialism.

Nock: 'the State' is a mere perversion of 'the government'

To "turn away from good-faith discourse", first make use of pseudopsychiatry.

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases

Open Access Harvard

Thanks, Dr. Reisman; or, How I Learned to Hate Enviros and Love Tantrums

A minor wish of mine

Free Healthcare = Shortages & Rationing

¿Qué sabemos acerca de los bancos? - Parte II

Mr. Lessig goes to Washington?

Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment?

The way in which a dealer bought a pig from a peasant.

Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or managing/enclosing the commons?

Voluntary action on climate change: Wall Street's new "Carbon Principles"