In response to Stephen Kinsella , since the comments section was getting a little bogged down in other matters: The Top 12 History Books for Libertarians The Rise and Decline of the State, Martin Van Creveld Conceived in Liberty, Murray Rothbard The Triumph of Liberty, Jim Powell Modern Times, Paul Johnson Reassessing the Presidency, John Denson
In this age of internet-enabled politics the smoke-filled backrooms of politics as usual are having a hard time keeping the answer to “cui bono” a secret. One site has observed that currently the government has no “system for assimilating, organizing, and releasing information on the hundreds of billions of tax dollars that are spent each year on
John Tierney of The New York Times has finally found the economic miracle that is Estonia and has the intestinal fortitude to discuss it in the “paper of record” in an op-ed piece from September 5th: It’s a boomtown with a beautifully preserved medieval quarter along with new skyscrapers, gleaming malls and sprawling housing developments: Prague
With the recent news that Bill Gates will give up stewardship of Microsoft in the next two years to concentrate on his foundation work. And, the news that the second-richest man in the world will give his fortune to the richest man in the world, it is important to recall that things actually get done absent government involvement. As Samuel Pepys
The Gulf Coast received hundreds of millions in foreign aid last year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. But, what happened to all that money? “One year later, the fate of international disaster assistance has turned into a tale of inept bureaucracy, diplomatic bungling, and unspent cash.” Shocking scenes of devastation resulted in
When Professor Reisman reveals, in his latest blog entry , that Mises told him that the value of a (specific?) produced means of production is set by its costs, was this any more than a shorthand way of warning against a adopting an overly simple, one-stage act of discounting backwards when the calculation actually rests within a much more highly
Since V for Vendetta garnered much interest on this site, I thought people would be interested in Aaron “Hollywood” Russo’s new documentary: America: Freedom to Fascism . Readers of Murray Rothbard’s History of Money and Banking in the United States , and his What Has Government Done to Our Money? will be familiar with some of the material. Even
The BBC News Magazine asks if the nation state is under threat from the rise of the super-city? The author seems to hope against this decentralization as he clings to his nationalist sentiment. But, at least he is willing to ask the question. Sociology Professor Richard Sennett at the London School of Economics is one academic that has recognized
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. You may put men on opposite sides of a river or a chain of mountains; may else part them by a tract of salt water; may give them, if you like, distinct languages; and may even colour their skins differently; but you cannot change their fundamental relationships.
The Financial Times reports that: “’Ethical’ coffee is being produced in Peru, the world’s top exporter of Fairtrade coffee, by labourers paid less than the legal minimum wage. Industry insiders have also told the FT of non-certified coffee being marked and exported as Fairtrade, and of certified coffee being illegally planted in protected
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