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Rethinking "Rethinking IP", or, if we step away from statism, will societies not find ways to protect ideas?

Stephan Kinsella has another post up at the Mises Daily on " Rethinking IP "; while I share Stephan's mission of ending state-sponsored IP - which has morphed into gross corporate-statist corruption, oppression and profound waste - as usual...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Feb 16 2011

A View from the Trenches, February 4th, 2010: "Liquidity preference on the rise"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: february-4-2010 In the previous letter, I framed my review of 2010 in three stages. The bottom line is that I am bearish, and expect the bearishness to progress. The progress will be marked by the...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Wed, Feb 3 2010

Cómo se produce el ciclo económico

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 6 de septiembre de 2005) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/1905 . [Este artículo está extraído de los primeros capítulos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Dec 10 2010

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, ciclo económico

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

Thomas Jefferson, the nature of the State, and President Obama

I got an email today from an old friend asking whether the signature line of an email which I'd sent him was really something that which Thomas Jefferson had written. What follows is more-or-less my response to him (slightly edited to leave out personal...

Posted to Ron Morley's Freedom Blog by Ronald D. Morley on Thu, Feb 12 2009

Filed under: economics, freedom, State power

Tres opciones defectuosas de salida de la Fed

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 14 de marzo de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5110 . Ya sea dando conferencias públicas o enseñando en la Academia Mises...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Mar 15 2011

Filed under: Fed, crisis, Robert Murphy

George Monbiot: taking the heat from other enviros for supporting for nuclear power

UK enviro-journalist-commentator George Monbiot has an interesting post in the Feb. 20 Guardian that explains his why he now believes that " A kneejerk rejection of nuclear power is not an option ", and why he's willing to take heat from...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 23 2009

Filed under: Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Monbiot, nuclear, climate change

Krugman cae en la trampa contable keynesiana

Por Robert P. Murphy. (Publicado el 21 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3945 . Una cosa es criticar a Paul Krugman por sus opiniones sobre los economistas austriacos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Dec 22 2009

Filed under: crisis, Paul Krugman, keynesianismo, Robert Murphy

"TokyoTom Moving the Goalposts?" Bob Murphy dislikes my criticism of the rush by "skeptics" to print climate science news

Further to my preceding post, on " Confirmation bias, rent-seeking and the rush to print the latest science "scoop (Linzen-Choi) ", I note that Bob Murphy has kindly put up a new blog post that notes and responds to my comments to him ...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Sep 4 2009

Filed under: rent-seeking, confirmation bias, Bob Murphy, climate change

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

10 things mainstream and Keynesian economics cannot explain

1. interest rates 2. utility 3. monopolistic and oligopoly competition 4. competition 5. the business cycle 6. labor 7. capital formation 8. prices 9. trade 10. the economy

Posted to Ethics and Economics by fezwhatley on Fri, Jun 5 2009

Filed under: 10 things i hate about you

Towards a Greater Understanding of Say’s Law

The most renown theory of the French economist, Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the eponymous Say’s Law has been one of the most important contributions of Classical economics even though it was but a minor facet of Say’s own economics. He...

Posted to The Critiques: An Analysis by laminustacitus on Tue, Mar 3 2009

Filed under: economics, Say's Law, markets, Jean Baptiste Say

On climate, myopic progressives console themselves by pointing out fossil $ behind science "skeptics"; but miss the same from left and ignore middle ground

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, Feb 28 2010

Filed under: climate, rent-seeking, ostrom, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, confirmation bias, sheppard

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

La teoría progresiva de la historia

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 14 de septiembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4708 . [Extraído de una transcripción editada de “ Ideology and...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Sep 15 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, ideología, whig