Gupta Mea Culpa
Gupta states, “We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.”
Gupta states, “We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.”
Readers stirred to anger by the simpleminded statism of Paul Krugman will be delighted by Lott’s demolition of some of his claims.
Hume pointed out that, while conduct should be judged by its “utility,” it is not specific acts that should be so judged, but general rules of action.
Rampant statism was probably an unavoidable evil in an age during which large segments of the enfranchised populace woke up for active political life.
The purpose of this postal monopoly was to enable officials to read the letters of private citizens.
Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others.
Not surprisingly, the city government of Delray Beach is apparently doing everything it can to
drive these young entrepreneurs out of business.
Libertarianism, too, is beautiful. Not aesthetically, of course, but logically, as a simple and elegant social theory.
A real-life example of concurrent currencies circulating absent any legal restrictions would contain some heuristic value. The real-life example is Somalia.
The first-ever libertarians were the Levellers, an English political movement active in the seventeenth century.