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The Fragile Welfare State

It's strike season here in Finland, unions are throwing their weight around and a peculiar situation is brewing in the healthcare sector. Healthcare services here are mainly provided by the state and municipals. The nurses are demanding a 24% pay...

Posted to libertas by Libertas est Veritas on Wed, Oct 17 2007
Fighting over the wheel of government

[update below] Fundamentalist states on an interesting thread : "Most Americans are outright socialists; the rest are socialist sympathizers. They believe that only the government can save them from capitalists." In response, I raised the following...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Oct 16 2007

Filed under: rent-seeking, enviros, government, corporations, socialists, limited liability
The State Is

The State is not defined by what it does, but how it does it....

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Mon, Oct 15 2007
Sophomoric optimism?

Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Oct 15 2007

Filed under: environment, mises, state, property, ostrom, cordato, commons
Ron Bailey of Reason congratulates Al Gore

[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Oct 15 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, property, ostrom, gore, yandle, Ron Bailey, fisheries
Mendel and Mises Walk into a Bar . . .

In the seventies Richard Dawkins acheived great fame when he wrote a book called The Selfish Gene , now I haven't actually read the book, but it does contain the idea of memes, which are units of cultural information and analogous to genes. Memetics...

Posted to The Spirit of Liberty by TigerofRobare on Sun, Oct 14 2007
Beware the Word "Over"

Its an all too common modifier. We hear about over taxing, over spending, over regulation. Its a strange indictment. Its not a legalistic term, we do not hear of over robbing or over battering. It implies more a sense of stewardship or worse, that the...

Posted to Brush Fires of Freedom by Bostwick on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: supply side economics, taxes, over
Introduction

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself. I don't know if I'll post much on here, but anyway an introduction is never inappropriate. I'm Spanish, studying 2nd course of Economics. I'm very interested in Austrian economics, although I...

Posted to Learning: a never-ending process by martinf on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: Introduction Spanish Student Economics
Boycott China and India?

"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, boycott
What would Murray Rothbard say?

First, the question, then some background info: Q: What would happen, in the United States, if the government "went away" right now? Some friends and I had this discussion the other day, and one theory was that society would basically devolve...

Posted to Ronorama by Ronorama on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: murray rothbard, anarchy
Using the State to solve common resource problems?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, state, ostrom
Libertarian denial; clever but not wise

[Previously posted on a recent thread ( Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork - thanks, Sean Corrigan !) in response to someone who is concerned about environmental problems but is unfamiliar with Austrian approaches.] Man is clever but not wise ("homo...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 12 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, Malthus, fisheries
I'll see your chunk, and raise you two cows ...

Mises.org amazes me by their offering of great economics texts on-line. I read Satan's Bushel over the course of two evenings, and I'm currently enjoying The New Deal in Old Rome . I laughed out loud at the following quote from page 82 of The...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Oct 11 2007
Welcome

I suppose the first post of any blog should introduce the author a bit, and list some of the topics expected to be covered. The author: Hi, my name is Scott Yokim; I am a software engineer in silicon valley. I work for a company that specializes in visual...

Posted to scottyokim by scottyokim on Thu, Oct 11 2007
Mises on fixing externalities: progress along the Kuznets curve is not magic, but the result of institution-building

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Oct 11 2007

Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, mises, fisheries, transition, Kuznets

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