Andrew Meyer, a UF student from Weston, is tasered and taken away by police after asking John Kerry a question during a speech. Kerry seems to want to answer his questions, but the police move in and tackle him to the ground, Kerry goes on to crack a joke while they taser him and the police later state that he was attempting to incite a
One of the many fascinating footnotes in Dr. Hulsmann’s Mises - Last Knight of Liberalism is this entry: “The uniqueness of Mises’s role was still recognized some twenty years later by one of the last surviving students of the French laissez faire school. Writing to Mises in September 1957, the professor A. Bastet said that Mises was the successor
More bon mots from Dr. Hulsmann’s Mises - The Last Knight of Liberalism : “In the preface to the German edition [of his General Theory ], Keynes boasted that his theory was particularly well suited for totalitarian regimes and lamented that it was less fit for the conditions prevailing in freer societies.” On p. xxvi of his Collected Writings
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 jointly to Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota, Eric S. Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago, “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design
2007 Nobel Prize winner Leonid Hurwicz was a participant in the Ludwig Mises’ seminar at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Hurwicz tells us in his remarks commenting on a paper by Israel Kirzner published in the CATO Journal (pdf file). Hurwicz says he participated in the Mises seminar in the period 1938-1939. Curiously,
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Investor Jim Rogers urged people to get out of the dollar and says he expects to be rid of all his U.S. currency assets by summer next year. “If you have dollars, I urge you to get out,’’ Rogers said in an interview from Singapore. He is chairman of New York-based Rogers Holdings, formerly known as Beeland Interests Inc.
From Scientific American Magazine - January 2008: Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon ...As with living organisms and ecosystems, the economy looks designed—so just as humans naturally deduce the existence of a top-down intelligent designer, humans also (understandably) infer that a top-down government
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Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg’s testimony in Albany this week that the city’s taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they get back, a City Council member is offering legislation that would begin the process of having New York City secede from New York State. Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents Queens, is pushing the idea,
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