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The Fruits of Intellectual Property Law

I recently had a debate with a friend of mine regarding intellectual property. I took the position that intellectual property is not actually property, and that it should not be protected by law. He took the opposite position, at least with regard to...

Posted to The Eric Simmons Blog by Eric on Sun, Oct 12 2008

Filed under: intellectual property
Problems in Philosophy

I have only been studying philosophy, formally and informally, for about a year. In this time I have come across a wealth of theories, and formulated a few of my own. This also happens to be the period in which I have become a libertarian. First I was...

Posted to The Desolate One by Thedesolateone on Wed, Mar 18 2009

Filed under: anarchism, scepticism, ethics, libertarianism, metaphysics
In which I applaud another balanced, productive post by Dr. Reisman, and draw attention to a post by Lew Rockwell on the need for more power competition

[Snark Factor: Ridiculously High ] In honor of Earth Day, yesterday Dr. George Reisman , Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics , put up a fun little post that mocks the full-employment...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Apr 23 2009

Filed under: Reisman Rule, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, power, climate change, Lew Rockwell
Book Censorship

From this moment the Venezuelan government has stated that all book importers shall demonstrate that any book that is to be brought to our wonderful nation has to be approved not by one but by three instances in order to receive the dollars for the process...

Posted to Notes from the ruins by rflores on Mon, May 12 2008

Filed under: censorship book venezuela venezuelan
An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism

In the discussion and debate that goes on among libertarians, it is disputed as to wether or not libertarians should vote and participate in party politics. Some see voting as the only practical option, some think that there should be a multi-pronged...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Apr 5 2008

Filed under: Anarchism, Coercive Monopoly, Competition, Collusion, Monopoly, Checks and Balances, The Calculation Problem, Democracy, Representation, Voting, Means and Ends, Agorism, Propaganda, Consent, Libertarianism
Risk-shifting, BP and those nasty enviros; or, why does Lew Rockwell feel sorry for BP?

[I that note my subsequent BP posts can be found here ] I refer to Lew Rockwell 's May 5, 2010 piece, "Feel Sorry for BP?" http://mises.org/daily/4331 Lew, I largely agree with your criticism of government but some of your piece is simply...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sun, May 9 2010
Guns, Germs & IP; Or, Is good information not hard to find or socially advantageous to protect? A few thoughts to Stephan

I've been travelling, so I hope readers will forgive a few late comments on Stephan Kinsella's well-read July 28 Mises Daily post, " The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism ". I copy below the comments I left on the post comment thread...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Aug 17 2010
THE WORLD'S HARDEST AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROBLEM

THE WORLD'S HARDEST AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS PROBLEM by Don Lloyd For background : http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen21_3_1.pdf REISMAN: If you open up the hood of an automobile, you see a number of individual parts that disable the entire car if they are...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Fri, Feb 20 2009
Why does everyone calling for or condemning government "green power" mandates ignore the frustrations resulting from public utility monopolies and regulatory Balkanization?

The incessant calls for - and criticism of - government-funded/mandated "green/clean power" pork both ignore root causes and potential common ground. As a result, both sides of the debate are largely talking past each other, one talking about...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, May 23 2009

Filed under: power, Kiesling, Jerry Taylor, Google, smart grid, green jobs, electricity, climate change, Joskow
Bob Murphy on climate change at Antiwar Radio; a puppet for the "King Coal" hand that feeds him?

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Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Oct 2 2009

Filed under: Coal, Bob Murphy, cap and trade, climate change, IER, Scott Horton
Climate science: a Fundamentalist/creation science approach

<blockquote>[Sorry about this mess. I was able to get the formatting to work here: http://mises.com/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2007/10/30/climate-science-a-fundamentalist-creation-science-approach-update.aspx ]</blockquote> For convenience of...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Sat, Oct 27 2007

Filed under: climate, Fundamendalist, creationist
Breaking the senseless impasse on ANWR and OCS exploration and development - a tax and rebate proposal

It's long been obvious that: (1) government policy concerning the use of public lands is highly bureaucratized, often inept and subject to behind the scenes sweet deals favoring insiders; (2) discussions about how the public lands should be used often...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Jul 15 2008

Filed under: carbon pricing, John Baden, climate change, ANWR, William Anderson, government ownership, OCS
Luboš Motl 2: The cool-headed overheat; to this "rational" scientist, I'm a freedom-hating hypercommunist Nazi who should be "jailed or executed"

It looks like Lubos woke up on the wrong side of bed. BELOW is the type of "rational", "dispassionate" response that my previous attempt at discourse with Luboš Motl has earned from that fan of Bret "Mass Neurosis"...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Jul 7 2008

Filed under: commons, AGW, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change, Bret Stephens, Lubos Motl
Jim Hansen warns of slow-motion disaster and welcomes future public trials of fossil fuel CEOs for buying government delay

Prominent climatologist Dr. James Hansen , Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who has long been warning of the long-term consequences of man's...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Jun 26 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, carbon pricing, James Hansen, adler, Callahan, fossil fuels, George Will, Peter Barnes
Why top demagogues (Jim Hansen, Florida Power, RAND, Exxon, AEI, Margo Thorning, major economists, George Will) prefer rebated carbon taxes

[Note to first-time readers: the title is tongue-in-cheek.] I have previously blogged on libertarian, non-state approaches to climate change ; allow me to use this post to pull together for diligent readers various recent sources of opinion and information...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Jun 27 2008

Filed under: hansen, AGW, carbon pricing, GAO, George Will, Mankiw, Peter Barnes, rebated tax, OMB, RAND, Hayward, Thoring, Ken Green, Exxon, Pizer, Shapiro, AEI, Royce, Lakoff, Lewis Hay, Riddle

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