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ISO 9000 and Meta-Law

I need to apologize; my last post was such an obtuse mess that even I didn't understand it when I wrote it. Let me try again, now that Rob Dailey's great comment to my last post has enlightened me a little. (Thanks Rob!) Peter Pronovost's...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Sat, Dec 8 2007

Anarchism and Democracy

As I have argued before, democracy in the sense of majoritarianism or a political system of phony oligarchal representation inherently violates liberty. I have also tried to emphasize that all states are inherently exclusive and out of the control of...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, May 11 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Democracy, Representation, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Free Association

The money of science fiction.

In science fiction it is often interesting to see how money is treated. Most movies and television series barely touch on it. Usually money is refered to as 'credits' or some other form of computer accounting. Rarely is there any sort of currency...

Posted to Bracket Bending by Brent the bracket bender on Mon, Jan 19 2009

Sorry, but I can't resist asking: Feel Sorry for Tokyo Electric Power Co?

(Note; tongue firmly in cheek: see my straight post earlier .) Well, maybe they weren't WISE to build a row of nuclear power plants on a coastline known for earthquakes and a history of prior massive tsunamis, but surely the earthquake and tsunami...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Mar 27 2011

Limited liability, Part 2: Is limited liability for torts a simple codification of what companies and their counterparties could agree to voluntarily?

The comments regarding on limited liability at Geoffrey Allan Plauche 's post, " Ecofascism in the Name of Fending Off Ecofascism " - which I've been copying to an earlier post in relevant part - have been running long, so to improve...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Sep 25 2010

ESPN "Fighting for Our Country"

I'm watching the Liberty Bowl on ESPN this afternoon and the commentator states that one of the players, and I paraphrase, was over in Iraq fighting for our country. We Austrians know that that is a ludicrous statement but there could be three reasons...

Posted to Cigars, Scotch and Anarchy by libertyboom on Sat, Dec 29 2007

Filed under: Iraq, war, ESPN

It has been a while but in socialist time all is happening really fast

From the ruins (or at least in the near future) I am trying to write something that captures what I am living and at the same time reflects what I am thinking, but none of the experiences I am about to live in this year will compare to what I have lived...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Mon, Jan 12 2009

Filed under: step by step, socialism, venezuela

More redistribution = more fairness?

Is that really what's keeping the world spinning? Let as assume that this would be true. Then there could be just one way. Every income (well what worth would it be?) must be 100 % taxed away. And then everyone get's the same amount of "money"...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Tue, Jul 13 2010

Filed under: democracy good-bye, redistribution, 100 % tax

Breaking the impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development Part II; a response to Bob Murphy

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 29 2008

Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Coal, ANWR, government ownership, OCS

Constitution? What Constitution?

The President of the United States fired the President of General Motors Corporation over the weekend. This would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. But, things have changed and, apparently, this doesn't bother most of the American people or...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Tue, Mar 31 2009

Filed under: Federal bailout, Federal government, constitution

Thinking about Thinking: Nock and Mises

The recent posting on mises.org of Nock's lecture "The Theory of Education in the United States" resonated with me because I still remember attending my high school and college classes asking "Where did the Latin go?" I felt like...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Nov 22 2007

The State, the Intellectuals, and the Role of Anti-Intellectual-Intellectuals

My first public appearance as a speaker in the United States took place more than two decades ago here in New York City, in 1986, at the first major Mises Institute conference, held to celebrate Murray Rothbard's sixtieth birthday. And so I am particularly...

Posted to ayrnieu by ayrnieu on Mon, Jul 14 2008

Filed under: transcripts, 25thNYC, hoppe

Any length to prevent deflation

There are 4 things can cause deflation: 1. The supply of money goes down. 2. The supply of other goods goes up. 3. Demand for money goes up. 4. Demand for other goods goes down. However the Fed concern themselves entirely with the money supply and with...

Posted to Money Memes by jimmy on Thu, Dec 4 2008

A View from the Trenches, August 26th, 2010: "Was the home sales figure the catalyst?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: august-26-2010 In our last letter, we suggested that the tension in the markets was going to be released, to the upside or downside, by an unknown catalyst. That catalyst came the day after, on Tuesday...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Aug 26 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