There is this guy, Lew Rockwell, who writes regularly on these pages. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it or not, but the man is an extremist. Yes, I repeat that: an extremist! He has no sense of proportion, nor balance. Instead, he marks out the most extreme positions on any given subject, and tries to make them sound, horrors!, reasonable. The
the main problem I have with Hans on indifference is that he seems to let Nozick off the hook. Nozick says that in order to define a good, you’ve got to have indifference in economics, since a good is defined as that which with regard to all members of the class, we are indifferent between them. to say this in other words, if butter is a good,
(With assistance from Bill Barnett) I am perhaps one of the most heavily published of all Austro libertarians now active, at least in terms of refereed journals and law reviews (205, plus 32 forthcoming, for a total of 237 as of today), so these hints, below, might be of some use to you. At least they are based on a wealth of experience, garnered
Milton Friedman died today at age 94. May he rest in peace. I don’t want to discuss the Reagan and Thatcher “revolutions” he supposedly inspired. Nor his “Free to Choose” series, his many years with the University of Chicago and the Hoover Institution, or his Nobel Prize in Economics. These will be covered, I expect, by others, and in great
I have of late become embroiled with a colleague and friend of mine who shall remain nameless in order to protect the guilty. My advice to my very best students, the ones who are bright and, more important, have been really bitten by the Austro-libertarian bug thanks to both our efforts and those of our several other colleagues, is to major in
Una reconciliación entre la economía y el medio ambiente puede lograrse utilizando las instituciones de la primera como medio para alcanzar los fines del segundo. Es decir, podemos resolver los problemas de contaminación dependiendo de los mismos comportamientos y las mismas motivaciones que conducen al crecimiento económico y al desarrollo. Esta
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.