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The Vitamin Water Revolution

Everyone is familiar with gas-station drinks. There's the energy drink that claims to be filled with strange substances such as 'taurine', 'ginseng', and the bottle conveys a sense of power and energy. The energy drink is almost always...

Posted to JuliaT by JuliaT on Tue, Nov 20 2007

Filed under: market

Liberty as a Lack of Unchosen Positive Obligations

And a lack of a gaurantee of survival and flourishing There are two fundamental ways in which liberty and rights can be defined. One definition of liberty is the freedom to use one's faculties in order to persue one's rational self-interest without...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 23 2008

Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy

Introduction

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. I don't know if I'll post much on here, but anyway an introduction is never inappropriate. I'm Spanish, studying 2nd course of Economics. I'm very interested in Austrian economics, although I...

Posted to Learning: a never-ending process by martinf on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: Introduction Spanish Student Economics

Problems with gold or any common currency?

Let's say we have two economically and geographically isolated islands, each with the rough size and population of New Zealand. They are virtual clones of one another, and each has a functioning monetary economy based on a gold standard, with all...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Tue, Apr 15 2008

The Racket and the Cult

As I argued in my post The Sword and the Lie , the state is a symbiosis of violent criminals (the sword) and propagandizing intellectuals (the lie). The sword needs the lie. Rulers always outnumber the ruled, so a reign predicated on bald criminality...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: History, Political Philosophy

Happy birthday, united city of Berlín!

The fall of the Berlin Wall never escaped my memory. Later I wrote a paper about it during college and looked up at the library for every single magazine published between October and November 1989. What struck me the most is that during October Honecker...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Mon, Nov 9 2009

Jatropha biofuel, Third World exploitation

Poor people in India are evicted from their land to make way for Jatropha biofuel crops.

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Posted to Charles Anthony by Charles Anthony on Wed, Jul 29 2009

Filed under: pignon d'inde, environmentalism, green politics, physic nut, crony capitalism, jatropha, green energy, biofuel, biodiesel, green gold

A View from the Trenches, November 13th, 2009: Don't blame crude oil!

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com After the close of yesterday’s session, commentators attributed the drop in equities (S&P500 closed at 1087.24 or -1.03%) to the Crude Inventory Report. Indeed, it was after...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Nov 12 2009

Futbol, Fate, and 42

Fate isn't a popular subject these days. After all, the world has grown up. Industrialized. Science has eliminated mystery and explains the world around us. Changing our surroundings is as easy as pumping flammable hydrocarbons from the ground and...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Apr 29 2009

Filed under: futbol, Soccer, Fate, Life, luck, economic, industrial, chaos

Aftermath

So here I am, standing in the wake of election night. Since the primaries passed I found myself an injured veteran of the Ron Paul Revolution. So election day for me was neither trauma nor glory, but a sad feeling as I watched the conclusion of what seemed...

Posted to The Cochran Column by joecochran on Thu, Nov 6 2008

Filed under: Barack Obama, elections, ron paul, liberty, campaign for liberty, free talk live, downsizedc, mises institute

I Can't Stand Cant, Or, LeBron James and our Collectivist Scorn of "Collectivists"

A recent post on the Mises Economics Blog by contributor S.M. Oliva , " LeBron and the Collectivist Mentality ", which rails against "collectivism" and hypocrisy in the treatment of professional athletes, has provided an opportunity...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 13 2010

A View from the Trenches, October 29th, 2009: "What are we correcting?"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Yes, we are experiencing a correction. No news here. Yesterday too, the Norges Bank raised its benchmark rate by 25bps, signaling the beginning of the end in accommodative policies...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Oct 28 2009

Do contributions by corporations to 'progress' mean we should ignore sick dynamics set in motion by limited liability?

I post here some of my further dialogue on the comment thread to Matt Ridley 's " Nuclear crony capitalism " post that I blogged on earlier . Posted by, Robin Guenier (not verified) Tom: Yes, I agree with much you say. But, nonetheless,...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Apr 5 2011

Fisiocracia y libre comercio en la Francia del siglo XVIII

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 23 de diciembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4814 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Dec 11 2011

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, fisiócratas

Keynes, el hombre

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 18 de noviembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3845 . [Publicado originalmente en Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Mar 13 2011

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, biografía, John Maynard Keynes