The Mises Institute receives correspondence from all over the world, many letters per day, and this one struck me as particularly inspiring: I’m 77 years old, and I have practiced law 50 yrs. In the mid-70’s I was in a book store in its business section. I saw a book written by Percy Greaves, I picked it up and read the introduction by someone
In response to the Time magazine story on illegal aliens, Who Left the Door Open , Brian Doherty says, Go Ahead, Leave the Door Open . Good for the author of This Is Burning Man for discussing the arguments of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Here is Kerry’s most elaborate attempt to explain why his central plan is better than Bush’s central plan. Not that words matter to these people in the slightest (Bush famously called for big and smaller government in the same speech at the GOP convention), but it is still interesting to see a Democrat, the party of the public sector (as verses
The spirit was nice, but something is odd about the argument at TCS that runs this way. CBS didn’t know that its Bush memos were suspicious but the blogs did and corrected the record even before CBS could investigage. The suggests that Hayek is correct that a spontaneous, decentralized system of knowledge dispersal works more efficiently than a
James Pinkerton employs the analysis found in Mises’s Bureaucracy to great effect in this good discussion on TechCentral of the beloved Marcia Angell. (By the way, the Mises Institute has to lease these books at a fee; please help
Kuehnelt-Leddihn is the author of “ The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises “; Enrico Peppe writes an appreciative essay of this “extreme rightest arch-liberal.”
Fighting crime is a purely private activity, and Spiderman himself functions as a kind of private vigilante, making up for the failures of the supposed “public good” provisions that the state never gets around to providing. It is these themes – the chaos of the city, the inability of government to stop crime, our dependence out private solutions –
With the news hook of AT&T’s decision to give up residential phone service , this wonderful piece in the NYT illustrates how it is that consumers are in charge of the production process. Neither the author nor the editor who put the piece in the “advertising” section seem to be aware of the implications for antitrust, quality and safety
In Anti-Capitalistic Mentality , Mises says it is foolhearty to expect high-art from best-selling books. “It is true that most of the novels and plays published today are mere trash,” he wrote in 1956. Here is the NYT’s sendup of the base titles of today’s intensely partisan political books. One possibility that the Times article doesn’t consider:
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