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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

Climate change, is democracy enough?

So runs the title of a recent op-ed by David Shearman (professor of medicine in Australia) who recently co-authored the book The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy , with Joseph Wayne Smith (a US lawyer), in a series from the Pell Center...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jan 28 2008

Filed under: climate, commons, pielke jr.

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

Get yer top climate skeptic arguments here!

Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds - coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications: John Cross: Skeptical Science Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Apr 11 2008

Filed under: science, AGW, climate change, skeptic

Una sociedad de benefactores mutuos

Por Jeffrey A. Tucker. (Publicado el 25 de mayo de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4427 . El otro día en la caja del supermercado, pagué mi saco de panecillos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, May 26 2010

Filed under: Jeffrey Tucker, intercambio, comercio

Sir Richard Branson tells strikers to find another job

This story on the BBC put a big smile on my face. 4800 cabin crew workers voted to strike next month over lower-than-normal pay levels offered by Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline. Branson put his foot down and said in a letter to his staff that he...

Posted to Cigars, Scotch and Anarchy by libertyboom on Mon, Dec 31 2007

Filed under: Virgin Atlantic, unions, Sir Richard Branson, wages, BBC, CEO, labor, management

Get FeedBurner for your Mises.com blog

You can easily set up FeedBurner for your blog by going to your Dashboard then Syndication Settings . What is FeedBurner, you ask? FeedBurner is a Google company that lets you do all kinds of things with your blog's feed, including automatically formatting...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Sun, Nov 11 2007

Filed under: Blogging, syndication, FeedBurner

Free Markets Don’t End Like This

Free Markets Don’t End Like This By Monty Pelerin , posted January 5th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/05/free-markets-dont-end-like-this/ “My long view for the US is high inflation which will not show up in the government’s...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Tue, Jan 5 2010

Filed under: insolvency, Turmoil, Fascism

La pasión viene de la libertad

Por Jonathan M. Finegold Catalán. (Publicado el 9 de febrero de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4085 . El emprendimiento es un bloque de construcción para el...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Feb 10 2010

Filed under: libertad, emprendedores, Jonathan Finegold Catalán, James Cusumano, pasión

Getting too much blog comment spam?

You have several options to control the amount of spam comments. Require that all or some posts be approved: Select "Global Settings", then " Advanced Post Settings " Under the "Comment Moderation" setting, you can require...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Wed, Jan 9 2008

Filed under: spam

A View from the Trenches, November 18th, 2009: "Update on latest market themes"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: www.sibileau.com Perhaps yesterday was an opportunity to take a break and think matters over more carefully. Although equities closed almost flat in the US, there was some intraday volatility. The...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Tue, Nov 17 2009

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

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

¿Odiáis el estado?

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 15 de junio de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5342 . [ Libertarian Forum , 1977] Recientemente he estado cavilando acerca de cuáles...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Jun 16 2011

Filed under: Murray Rothbard, libertarismo, Libertarian Forum