I wrote an extra Forbes piece last night in response to police brutality at UC-Davis and elsewhere. There’s an irony here: my guess is that a lot of the people Scarcity and self-interest are constraints. Munger on Burke: the thing itself is the
I was glad to see Bryan Caplan take up my invitation to join the Julian Simon Club . Other members now include Stephen Miller , Don Boudreaux , Eli Dourado , Matt Zwolinski , and a few people commenting under pseudonyms (if I’ve missed you, please forgive me!). Some of the comments on my original post and on Bryan’s post linked above raise a few
“MF Global’s Fractional Reserves” by Doug French Free bankers are always insisting that fractional-reserve banking is A-OK, as long as bankers inform depositors up front that the bank will be using their customers’ money to make loans and investments. That is exactly the case with MF Global, currently undergoing the eighth largest bankruptcy in
HansHoppe.com Austrian Economist and Anarcho-Capitalist Social Theorist Hoppe in Bucharest by Stephan Kinsella on December 18, 2011 Professor Hoppe spoke at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies on November 9, 2011. The four videos (two lectures with Q & A, one interview, and one seminar with discussion) are below: From the blog post at
In a lengthy interview economist Peter Boettke explains his views on the future of Austrian economics and what he is doing form his position as a university faculty member to advance the academic conversation around the Mises-Hayek tradition. It is my view that any social-intellectual change movement can and should use a variety of strategies. One
Glenn Greenwald’s post this morning and some of my reading for a revision of my paper with Chris Coyne on the Memphis Riot of 1866 got me thinking about the importance of a free press and a competitive marketplace for ideas. In my reading I came across the following eloquent quote from the April 1867 issue of The Methodist Quarterly Review , which
Intellectual property is inherently disruptive to the market mechanism, as the latter is understood by Austrian economics, and is thus prejudicial to human welfare. To understand why, one must first understand the social function of entrepreneurship in the market economy. Entrepreneurs arrange and deploy the factors of production in order to
In 1998 Paul Krugman declared “It’s Baaack” in a silly article heralding the return of the Keynesian liquidity trap, a chimera that even Keynes himself never believed in. But recently something very real and truly dreadful has climbed out of the witch’s brew of fiscal and monetary stimulus policies concocted by Ben Bernanke and other mainstream
Here are some extra sources and readings from my talk: My Forbes.com column “ Compassion Alone is Insufficient: Mind the Gap Between Intentions and Outcomes .” My paper “A Pile of Krusty Burgers Embiggens the Fattest Man: Obesity, Incentives, and Unintended Consequences in ‘King-Size Homer.” An abbreviated version of Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the
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