Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading
The following edited comments are excerpted from a recent email discussion with Walter Block and one of his correspondents, a Philosophy Professor
Monopoly and Competition
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RatesRise, Lines Lengthen at the ol’ PO
I don’t mean to pick on the US Postal Service, but I must admit to a strong (but not yet clinical) obsession with monopolies — especially tho
I suspected as much!
The Olive Bar, The State, and Rule-Ambiguity
There I stood with 8 olive pits in my cheek, talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store as she waved my half-pound container of antipasto ov
Where Would General Motors Be Without the United Automobile Workers Union?
Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.
Oil, Big Business, and “Monopoly”
A reader of my analysis of the backlash against the profits of big oil companies thinks that one of my stateme
How the Stewardess Lost Her Stripes
BK Marcus observes: there was a time when jetsetting playboys were pictured as having a stewardess or two on his arm. Something has changed.
The Abolition of Antitrust, by Gary Hull, ed.
The authors of this important book have undertaken a twofold task. They continue the free- market criticism of antitrust legislation by Dominick Armentano and other economists who defend laissez-faire.
IP and Global Government
Stephan Kinsella has cast doubt on the legitimacy of intellectual property (PDF).
