Can you imagine how awesome a blog by Murray Rothbard would be? Or Mises Dailies by Mises himself? These great men were not given their full due in their lifetimes, because they were writing in the media era of the monolithic broadcast and the monolithic print run. With such a model, power and interest has a competitive advantage over truth. But
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Back in 2005, Rainbough Phillips at Distributed Republic had the splendid idea of a Capitalism Appreciation Day . She walked the reader through her day expressing her appreciation for every for-profit entity that made her life more pleasant. It inspired me to do the same back then,
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Capitalism, Competition, Collaboration, and Kindness . Media and real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman has written an op-ed piece in which he tries to deflect blame from the Fed, and even proposes giving it more power. In what amounts to a double-salvo on
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations . Previously in this series: Absolving with Faint Criticism: A Media and Real Estate Mogul Defends the Fed . The Independent is propagating the “findings” of a two-year study conducted by two British socialist outfits, the Fabian Society, and the Webb Memorial Trust. Its article’s
Some insight here : While Objectivists, libertarians and conservatives strongly agree on the principle of physical property rights, the picture is much more divided when it comes to ‘intellectual property’, a catch-all phrase for several different items, including patents, copyright and trademarks. In a landmark essay by Stephan Kinsella, Against
Economist Robert Frank has discovered a Ph.D powered economic perpetual motion machine that lifts itself by its own bootstraps, as explained by Mark Steyn : The stimulus will work because enough economists are saying it will work that their prestigious postnominal credentials will impress enough of the masses into thinking it will work, which in
As you may recall, I’m a libertarian and intensely interested in various normative theories regarding property rights, including justifications thereof, Lockean-type homesteading theories, and Austrian economics as related thereto. I have found your own formulations in this regard (e.g. in sec. 1 of your Property treatise)–e.g., your discussion of
From zenhabits: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Language) Post written by Leo Babauta . Today I received an email from the lawyers of author Susan Jeffers, PhD., notifying me that I’d infringed on her trademark by inadvertently using the phrase “feel the fear and do it anyway” in my post last week, A Guide to
Jimmy Winkelmann, a freshman here at the University of Missouri, established The South Butt clothing company, poking fun at today’s logo-obsessed youth. The result? You guessed it: a cease-and-desist letter from The North Face , accusing Winkelmann of sowing “confusion” in the marketplace and violating its intellectual-property rights.
Re Randy Barnett’s Proposed “Federalism Amendment” , here’s an amended version that I think would be an improvement: Section 1: Secession . Any State or Indian tribe may, by an act of its legislature, secede from the United States. Section 2: Nature of the Union . From the perspective of the United States, the States are sovereign and are the
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