Walter Block – The Errors of Friedman, Coase & Buchanan [Australian Mises Seminar 2012] . Here I speak at Mises University 2012. My lecture is about Friedman’s positive externalities’ argument of public schools, his broken window fallacy concerning WWII, the tradable emission rights, Friedman’s road socialism. I talk about the flexible exchange
Here I go over the moderate view of libertarianism with Henrik Palmgren from Red Ice Creations. I explain why the welfare state creates poverty by creating non-intact families and I go over how the government subsidizing unemployment gives incentives for unemployment that would otherwise not be there in a libertarian world. Click here to listen
The minimum wage on its face is an unemployment law, not an employment law. It does not compel anyone to hire anyone else. It only stipulates who CANNOT legally be employed: no one may be hired for less than the amount stipulated by law. If the minimum wage law is set at $10 per hour, the law does not require any employer to hire any employee at
Mises’s Vienna 2.0: This map and the guide below have been compiled by Mises University graduates Andrew Finnerty and Robert Müürsepp, who were able to meet up in Vienna to explore the places important to the scholars of the Austrian school. University of Vienna : It should be noted that Hans Kelsen has a bust just to the right as you’re looking
Here I speak to Chris Spangle and Dan Peffers from the We Are Libertarians Show. I go over Nevada and its’ current laws on prostitution. I speak about free market environmentalism and the history of government laws actually permitting trespassing by way of pollution. I also make a clear distinction between the free market and contracting out. Then
Summary By Luis Rivera III: As Lysander Spooner said before him, Walter Block calls “taxes” what it ishighway robbery. Host Mike Smyth asks Dr. Block how would services such as fire fighting, roads, police, courts etc. be funded. He uses a reductio ad absurdum to elucidate his point. Dr. Block holds no punches and tells listeners of this Canadian
Summary by Luis Rivera III: Here Walter Block talks about how some private roads were managed before. Block mentions that carriages were charged for being on these roads based on the amount of horses that were pulling the carriage as well as the width of the wheels on these carriages. This was done in order to cover the expenses accumulated by the
In this video , Dr. Boyd Blundell takes me on in a debate on minimum wage. I argue that: Minimum wage cuts off the rungs of the economic ladder. So, the rungs represent classes of workers. The lower the rung the lower the market revenue production of that worker. Hence, the higher the rung the higher the market revenue productivity of the worker.
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