Thus does Thom Hartmann at the Huffington Post say that “The intellectual forefathers and mothers of the insane conservative economic policies that have brought us to where we are include Ludwig Von Mises, Freidrich Von Hayeck (sic.)...” Never mind that Mises and Hayek were the 20th century’s premier opponents of loose money and central banking
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
The astute Brian Doherty reviews a new book on the history of right-wing victories, this one by a leftwinger but it tells essentially the same story as the right-wing books: how the movement when from success to success in dismantling the New Deal and big government. Telling the tale again and again doesn’t make it
This blogger demonstrates that the penalties are higher for downloading music online than for child abduction, stealing actual CDs, robbing and mugging someone, setting someone’s house on fire, stalking, and even murdering in a 2nd class
The ever-fashionable and reliably unprincipled Richard Posner seizes the moment to write and sell a new book, a work which Caronline Baum enjoys crushing .
An interesting reflection from Financial Sense. Yugoslavia tried to jumpstart its woeful economy by turning to a Keynesian “solution”. In 1989, Yugoslavia enacted its “stimulus plan”; it went on a government spending binge. If the country was wallowing in economic squalor, where did the money come from? Simple....it was created out of thin air! In
Despite the billions spent since 2001 on intelligence and counterterrorism programs, sophisticated airport scanners and elaborate watch lists, it was something simpler that averted disaster on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit: alert and courageous passengers and crew members. That’s not my spin or my writing. That’s the lead of the NYT piece on
From an obit for Paul Samuelson . Thanks to his work No student would ever again rest comfortably with the 19th-century nostrum that private markets would cure unemployment without need of government intervention.
I was getting my haircut today, and the barber woman and I were talking about the sorry state of the economy. She said my that she is doing her part to help our economy by refusing to buy Mexican hair products, even though they are cheaper than American ones. She said she would spend as much as $2 more per bottle of shampoo if that’s what it would
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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.