Here is an advertisement , appearing in a major Austrian (the country, not the school) newspaper, for Hans Hoppe’s forthcoming lecture (Sept 21-22) at the Siemens Forum Wien.
You know that you are living in strange times when a single news item on the Iraqi Constitution contains supporting comments from Bush (”completing the next step in their transition from dictatorship to democracy... this constitution is good for all Iraqis and that it adequately reflects compromises suitable to all groups”) and an open admission
Mandatory evacuations , such as that ordered in New Orleans on Sunday, are a wonderful invitation to looters, and they came in droves . Where was the law? “Looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.... Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on
Several Austrian professors have said that they appreciate Greg Mankiw’s principles text on economics, as a solid intro to mainstream thinking (it is mercifully free of most Keynesian anachronisms) and a good foil for Austrian perspectives. Certainly one has to appreciate his honesty in saying that he never read any Austrians in grad school and
The New York Times ran a just-the-facts story about Argentina’s increasingly egregious price controls—beginning in browbeating, moving to controls on beef, spreading to all consumer goods, and ending in export bans—that somehow failed to report any information on central-bank policies, as if price increases and the money supply have nothing to do
This piece by Charles Wheelan, by the economics editor of Yahoo Finance, is provocatively titled “ Taxes Can Be Good for You .” So we read and read to find out precisely how it is the case that having some of our earnings and property taken from us by force can actually be good for us as individuals. In the course of his argument he makes silly
I suppose that I wasn’t entirely aware of how hard-core Henry Hazlitt was on the gold question until re-reading The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve it : This brings us to gold. It is the outstanding merit of gold as the monetary standard that it makes the supply and the purchasing power of the monetary unit independent of government, of office
A nice piece by our own Robert Bradley, author of the splendid Energy: The Master Resource . “ Little has changed in the 75 years since Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote, “In disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries.” Revised for the crisis du
And yet no one can seem to point to a single example of its use . (Thanks Digg.com , where many bloggers said Game Theory is descriptive, not prescriptive.)
You can get a sense from t his article on CNN what Homeland Security has come down to: shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local governments, based on the political influence of politicians that represent them and the effectiveness of their lobbyists. Millions and millions everywhere but still people complain that it’s not
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