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Today a half philosophical discussion. I just want to lead you into two different situations. a) visiting a market b) visiting a public authority Just one first question. Which one do you prefer to visit? Second question do you have an idea why? Well for me it's a difference like night and day. I'm...
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Someone has pointed me to: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/opinion/08tribe.html My question is. Why should I trust elites to keep care of Europe? The politicians have made us all the hell on earth with literally hundreds of thousands laws, nobody can no. The laws are not made to "save" us...
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Originally posted on damienmanier.com Recent Essay for political sociology class defining power: Power may be better understood as coercion, to differentiate from natural, electrical, or even Bertrand Russel's definition (as cited in Janoski, 2005) as “simply the capicity to realize ends” by the...
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Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation by Alex Merced Listen to his Mises U Lecture on Deflation One of my favorite topics and debates is the Inflation/Deflation debate, of Hulsmann has written extensively about putting him in my top 5 misesians (Murphy, Block, Woods, Hulsmann, and...
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Filed under: Prices, Deflation, Austrian Economics, Politics, Structure of Production, 1843, Power, 1870, 1920, 1839
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And now a public service market announcement (with the captioned title) from your friendly local mankind-hating envirofascist, courtesy of Dave Schwab of Green Change , who is apparently the author of the following missive that found its way into my email inbox: Dear Tokyo, President Obama has proposed...
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[This is a work in progress and largely taken from previous posts, but readers might find some value in it in the meanwhile.] 1. Heated but vacuous climate wars On environmental issues in general and climate in particular, find me someone ranting about “Malthusians ” or "environazis"...
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I copy below an interesting press release with the title noted above , regarding the "smart metering" of power consumption. I have blogged previously on Google`s efforts to speed the introduction of Smart Meters . Perhaps we will also see a little more focus on the negative role that our widespread...
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Michael Giberson at Knowledge Problem points to recent press coverage of the profoundly negative and perverse role being played by public utilities and their regulators. Who knows, but isn`t there an opportunity here for market liberals and environmentalists to push for deregulation and greater competition...
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To my disappointment, it turns out that Joe Romm , who maintains the Center for American Progress ` Climate Progress blog , didn`t let through my prior comment about how our discussions about green/efficiency mandates ignore the 800 lb. gorilla in the room, namely, inefficiency stemming from the lack...
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"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin I noted in February (" Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info ") that Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , has been beta...
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Joe Romm of Climate Progress has a new post up that lambasts a recent WaPo op-ed by "environmental ethicist" David Henderson . Romm provides useful information on the relative efficacy of government technology forcing efforts, but comes down like a ton of bricks on Henderson, all while ignoring...
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Anti-enviro gadfly Steven Milloy has a new blog post up that rightly skewers the green mandates that are providing a taxpayer-funded stream of business and profits to GE. Notes Milloy: GE announced today that utility giant American Electric Power (AEP) will purchase 110,000 smart meters from GE. And...
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The incessant calls for - and criticism of - government-funded/mandated "green/clean power" pork both ignore root causes and potential common ground. As a result, both sides of the debate are largely talking past each other, one talking about why there is a pressing need for government policy...
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[Snark Factor: Ridiculously High ] In honor of Earth Day, yesterday Dr. George Reisman , Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics , put up a fun little post that mocks the full-employment arguments made by President Obama on behalf of...
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The language of contemporary politics, and of politics in general, is fascinating to me. Mainstream politics, particularly in the media, seems to be filled with deceptive and meaningless verbiage. There are a lot of buzzwords meant to spark an emotional reaction in people, and the meaning of certain...