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The hen rebellion

All of a sudden, the hen sprung into consciousness, looked around at its mindless sisters scratching and clucking, and proclaimed "I hereby declare my independence from this oppressive regime! No more laying eggs for some biped's breakfast while...

Posted to Man, Meaning, and Freedom by William Green on Wed, May 5 2010

Filed under: liberty, freedom, government, libertarianism

Thank you, Prof. Block, for feeding our confirmation biases

Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Feb 25 2008

Filed under: climate, Reisman, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Block, Hayek, Richman, Callahan, confirmation bias, freedom

¿Quién fue Nicolás Maquiavelo?

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 8 de abril de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4208 . [Este artículo está extraído de Historia del pensamiento económico...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Fri, Apr 9 2010

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, Maquiavelo

Mikhail Bakunin and Collectivist Anarchism

Mikhail Bakunin was the Russian father of the strain of anarchism known as collectivist anarchism. He was initially loosely associated with both Karl Marx and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and eventually he developed anarcho-collectivism using both of them...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Jan 31 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin

[Update:] The 1979 JASON and Charney Reports

[ UPDATE: Unfortunately I've confused the 1979 JASON report with the Charney report that followed it (and referred to it) later that year. My bad! The Charney report is available online and is summarized in item 2 below; I could not find a copy of...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Sep 8 2008

Filed under: AGW, climate change, JASON report, Oreskes, Charney report

Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil

Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Apr 17 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change

Hay dinero y luego están los sustitutos del dinero

Por Ludwig von Mises. (Publicado el 16 de diciembre de 2009) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/3958 . [Extraído del capítulo 17 de La acción humana ] Los títulos...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Dec 16 2009

Filed under: Ludwig von Mises, dinero, La acción humana

Mises Tagging Overview

The framework used to tag pages on Mises.org is a tagging library I developed to tag any kind of content on Mises.org. The tag library references GUID 's assigned to all objects in the Mises.org databases. It tracks users by username or IP address...

Posted to The Mises Tech Update by David V on Tue, Oct 9 2007

Filed under: Web Technology, ASP.net, tagging

The Case For Free Immigration, The Case Against Borders

Immigration is a hot topic these days, particularly for those in the southern and south-western states of America. There has been a rising anti-immigration sentiment, directed specifically at immigrating Mexicans. The public cries out, "Secure the...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Mar 30 2008

Filed under: Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Competition, Consistancy, Racism, Collectivism, Discrimination, Separatism, Interventionism, Libertarianism, Economics, isolationism, Free Association, Immigration, Nationalism, Labor, Free Trade, Prohibition

The Anarchism and Minarchism Blur

Usually if I talk about minarchism I'm going to essentially bash it and promote anarchism against it. This is to be expected, since I am an anarchist. But I would like to point out a certain sense in which I think that the conflict between anarchists...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Tue, Apr 28 2009

Filed under: Anarchism, Minarchism

Los historiadores modernos hacen frente a la Revolución Americana

Por Murray N. Rothbard. (Publicado el 12 de mayo de 2007) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2541 . [Este artículo se publicó originalmente en Literature of Liberty ...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Jan 25 2012

Filed under: historia, Murray Rothbard, Revolución Americana

BLOWBACK in Benghazi and Cairo - it's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE

For those befuddled about the "Global War on Terror" and the attacks on US embassies/consulates in Libya and Egypt, perhaps this bit of fun from The Onion in 1998 might help: State Department To Hold Enemy Tryouts Next Week (excerpts below;...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Sep 12 2012

La conquista de los Estados Unidos por España

Por William Graham Sumner. (Publicado el 15 de diciembre de 2006) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/2398 . [Este discurso se pronunció por primera vez en la Sociedad Phi Beta...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Mar 29 2011

Filed under: William Graham Sumner, guerra, España, imperalismo

Proportional Justice: Retribution and Restitution

(Originally posted at damienmanier.com) The way we punish criminals and restore justice is very important to our overall crime prevention strategy. It is important to establish a punitive system that will exact the right amount of punishment while also...

Posted to Damien Manier by Damien Manier on Sun, Mar 14 2010

Filed under: crime, law, punishment, justice

La autosuficiencia aristotélica a lo largo de la Edad Media

Por Michael A. Heilperin (Publicado el 1 de junio de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4425 . [Extraído del capítulo 3 de Studies in Economic Nationalism ] La...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Tue, Jun 29 2010

Filed under: historia, Aristóteles, Michael Heilperin, autarquía, Studies in Economic Nationalism, Edad Media