The Free Market 19, no. 3 (March 2001) The state of California has experienced a meltdown in its electric power system. For months, the system has repeatedly run at or near the overload point, necessitating brownouts and even rolling blackouts. Incredibly, the fiasco has been blamed on deregulation and the free market. Economist Paul Krugman,
Environmentalism is the product of the collapse of socialism in a world that is ignorant of the contributions of Ludwig von Mises—a world that does not know what he has said that would logically explain the collapse of socialism and, even more importantly, the success of capitalism. Because of ignorance of the contributions of von Mises, the great
Environmentalism, and its boa constrictor-like, strangling grip on energy production, is taking an increasingly visible toll on production and the quality of life in the United States. Recurring power blackouts in California and skyrocketing oil and natural gas prices are the most obvious symptoms. Nevertheless, the environmentalists seem utterly
El ecologismo es el producto del desmoronamiento del socialismo en un mundo que ignora la contribuciones de Ludwig von Mises, un mundo que no sabe que lo que ha dicho explica lógicamente el desmoronamiento del socialismo y lo que es más importante, el éxito del capitalismo. A causa de la ignorancia de las contribuciones de Mises, la gran mayoría
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