Correspondent Bas Jonker writes: “I came across an interesting new venture in Germany called www.jobdumping.de . Basically it is an Ebay for people who want to work. Employers can post jobs with a salary they are willing to pay and potential employees can bid for the job and undercut each other. Of course, words like ‘slavery’ and ‘exploitation’
Weeding out failures is an important feature of the market economy, says this review of a new book by Paul Omerod. And government can’t seem to replicate it.
If it is not enough that conductors are being arrested for employing low-priced singers, now we have leading composers threatened by the state at the behest of animal rights advocates. The story is that Sir Peter Davies, a leading British composer, was spotted with a dead swan in his yard, which he admits that he planned to eat, though he denies
Castro angry over Forbes listing : Cuban President Fidel Castro has criticized Forbes magazine for the “infamy” of listing him among the world’s richest people, with a net worth of $550 million. “Once again, they have committed the infamy of speaking about Castro’s fortune, placing me almost above the queen of England,” Castro said in a speech to
A very nice review of Thomas Woods’s history book from John Seiler at the Orange County Register , and a not-so-nice one from Mark Goldblatt of the New York Post .
Good heavens, what kind of despotism would codify into law the principle that a part of the country may not secede, and that “non-peaceful” means will be used to prevent it. The world has united in opposition to such a country as this, with the State Department openly protesting. See the Washington Post on China’s new anti-secession law . Also see
Close down the classrooms, says Amitai Etzioni (writing on the attack on Hoppe) , if professors may only say what the hard data backs and nothing else. ( Hoppe Victory Blog is open.)
This is the first time I’ve seen Schwarzenegger connected with Mises, however vaguely (from LATimes, and no sense correcting errors, I suppose): As Schwarzenegger has noted in a PBS series, economist Milton Friedman’s free-market theories helped spur his rise to wealth and Americanization. Friedman’s recasting of Adam Smith dovetails with those
In what might be a first for Jack Kemp, this article seems to be sligthly skeptical of the Fed’s loose monetary policy. In any case, it is a good sign that he cites Shostak from
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