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The State Is Not a Hive

It is a cliche to compare political collectivism to insect behavior or a "hive mentality." The imagery is efficively simple; that people are nothing but expendable indentityless drones slaving away for the lazy Queen. But the analogy is amazingly...

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Fri, Sep 28 2007

Filed under: hive, markets, collectivism

Atesoramiento guerrillero

Por Wendy McElroy. (Publicado el 12 de abril de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5200 . Los titulares gritan: “ ¿Está esta niña en peligro debido...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Apr 12 2011

Filed under: atesoramiento, Wendy McElroy

Human Action Comics #1: The Basics

Introducing... Issue #1 covers the basics.

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Mon, Oct 12 2009

Filed under: Economics, Praxeology, Human Action Comics

Rep. Grayson tells Cheney to "STFU"

Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson made some more headlines on cable TV Wednesday night, telling former Vice President Dick Cheney to "STFU." That's an internet acronym used for "shut the f--- up." Grayson was responding to Cheney's...

Posted to mikguiruram by mikguiruram on Thu, Dec 10 2009

Ringside seat on the fight to steer the Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus

On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Oct 6 2009

Filed under: carbon pricing, climate change, Exxon, chamber of commerce, Apple, Nike, Tom Donohue, USCAP, BICEP, CERES, NRDC

Imagine

I often think how unimaginative statists are. When confronted with an argument against government services, or government itself, statists will at some point respond with a fallacy of a false choice. "Well if the government won't provide X, what...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Apr 2 2009

Filed under: henry hazlitt, imagination, faustino ballve

HuffPo abole la escasez

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 24 de mayo de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4349 . En un reciente artículo en el Huffington Post , Lynn Parramore formó...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, May 25 2010

Filed under: Robert Murphy, Huffington Post, déficit público

Is your country doomed or blessed

I though about it over and over again. And have come up with this suggestion I will state what I think may lead to doom or blessing of a country. You can judge it for any country on a scale fro -100 .... 100 the more negative the worse. So let's start...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Fri, Jun 4 2010

Filed under: doom, law enforcement, blessing, failure

Bob Murphy punts on whether "Cap and Trade" is a "market solution"

In response to my comments last month to Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , Bob has kindly noted on the blog thread his intention not to let my comments on his post remain the last word: Just following...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, climate change, Weitzman, Bob Murphy, cost-benefit

A View from the Trenches, July 1st, 2010: "Looking at the gaps"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-01-2010 Today is Canada Day and we wish a happy one to all those reading us in Canada! Let’s begin by stating that we share the general and current state of confusion in the market. When...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Mon, Jul 5 2010

I'm so honored and reassured: a member of the friendly TSA TwitterTeam writes to tell me that the TSA poses no threat to my personal rights, liberties or DNA

What a wonderful government we have! In response to my earlier re-tweet of someone's Twitter message that contained a link to a February 26 online news story entitled Genetic Patdown: Homeland Security plan for DNA screening could quickly lead to...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Mar 1 2011

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

Ética de la argumentación y libertad: una guía breve

Por Stephan Kinsella. (Publicado el 27 de mayo de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5322 . El Profesor Hans-Hermann Hoppe apareció en la escena austrolibertaria a finales...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Mon, May 30 2011

Filed under: Stephan Kinsella, Hans Hermann Hoppe, ética de la argumentación

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

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