Be sure to read any you missed! 1. Why ObamaCare Will Fail: A Reading List – Mises.org 2. The Skeptic’s Case – David M.W. Evans 3. The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy – Loyd S. Pettegrew 4. In Praise of Homeschools – Aaron Smith 5. The Task Confronting Libertarians – Henry Hazlitt 6. Charting Fun with Krugman – Robert P. Murphy 7. Is the United States
A great, uplifting song for kicking off the first day of the new year. “It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back, so shake him off!” Interpret it as a motivational anthem for the free (market-civil-and-family) society, and the “devil” as the imperial, parasitic state. Edit: A lyric from the song which can be interpreted as
Robert Wenzel makes this important point. [Krugman] writes: Has there been anything comparable on the Austrian/Austerian side? Why would any economist who knows anything about Austrian economics and bankster austerity programs link the two? Austrian economists have never supported any plan to suck dry the masses via taxation to payoff banksters
Most of the handwringing over the recent “fiscal cliff” legislation has been over massive tax credits for favored interests amidst huge tax increases for everybody else. See especially this Wall Street Journal editorial and this column by Tim Carney. It is important to remember, however, that tax credits and loopholes are good things. As Mises
Mises wrote : From day to day it becomes more obvious that large-scale additions to the amount of public expenditure cannot be financed by “soaking the rich,” but that the burden must be carried by the masses. (...) Every penny of additional government spending will have to be collected from precisely those people who hitherto have been intent
A new pro-state canard that has been trotted out lately has been to contrast levels of violence in pre-state versus state societies. It is pointed out that even the bloodiest of “state society” centuries (the twentieth) was an improvement on tribal society. Steven Pinker is often enlisted in this cause, particularly this passage from his “ A
From the Mises Academy, our online learning platform: Human Action: Part II with David Gordon, covering Mises’ most profound insights into the nature of society. American Bankster: Money, Banking, and the Power Elite in US History with Thomas DiLorenzo, covering Rothbard’s groundbreaking analysis of the American oligarchy. Sign up and get ready to
Armen Alchian died on February 19 at the age of 98. I learned this on February 20. At the end of the day on February 19, I was working on a book I am writing on the structure of economic thought. I try to write two pages a day. I wrote this: There is a long tradition for economics textbooks to begin with scarcity. The most rigorous of the
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