The Money Problem by Alex Merced While people like me definitely see the virtue of a gold standard, even a gold standard in any of it's historical incarnations still have one fundamental problem, they are a monopoly. I can discuss how the gold standard restrains government which promotes peace and...
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Alex Merced
on Fri, Oct 22 2010
Filed under: Money, Currency, Diversification, Competing Currencies, Monopoly, Gold Standard
(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) One of the roles of government, debated even among those of a libertarian or small government perspective, is that of regulating monopolies and ensuring competition. On a larger political scale, the debate may focus on how free or how socialized should a market...
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Damien Manier
on Tue, Mar 30 2010
Filed under: capitalism, corporatism, corporate welfare, libertarian, free market, license, natural monopoly, public utility, privatization, patent, monopoly, competition
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...
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...
Gustave De Molinari was a radical classical liberal associated with Frederic Bastiat and the French liberal school of economics. In his work "The Production of Security", Molinari was the first economist to propose the possibility of free competition for the production of security, which had...
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Brainpolice
on Fri, Jan 30 2009
Filed under: Anarchism, Minarchism, Competition, Monopoly, Libertarianism, Economics, Free Trade, History, Anarcho-Capitalism, Murray Rothbard, Frederic Bastiat, Gustave De Molinari