Here is an email I received from Scott Flaherty . It includes a range of interesting objections to the idea of getting rid of the state monopoly on law. Maybe Rothbardian-Misesians of the world would like to have a crack at them. “During our advocacy for the privatization of law, we have come across several objections which I would like to share
My memo on graduate schools and Austrian economics has been update, and I’ve also worked on another memo that concerns other social sciences: Economics in Graduate School Social Sciences in Graduate School. Both are permanent links from the fellowship page
I have taught at several institutions of higher learning in my life. My main motivation for doing so, apart from earning a living of course, is an attempt to “pass on the baton.” When I was a young pup, there were quite a few people who went out of their way to instill in me something very precious: an appreciation for free market economics and
John Gilmore on inflight activism, spam and sarongs : Q: You are not a great fan of copy protection. But how shall intellectual property holders commercially survive in an environment where perfect copies are a part of everyday life? A: I thought I knew that answer in 1989, but I wasn’t sure, so I started a business to see if I was right. Cygnus
Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway place (actually, a contrary-to-fact made-up one), there lived a group of human beings without benefit of government. Any government at all. How did they manage? Well, whenever there was a dispute between two neighbors, or friends, or merchants, or between a retailer and a customer, the plaintiff and
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.