Mises Daily Friday by Mark Tovey:
The rich make new resource-intensive products economically feasible. Those wealthy early-adopters of new products act as mannequins on which new products are draped, increasing demand as producers attempt to bring those products to the mass market.
Book Information
Liberty & Property
This essay was originally delivered as a lecture at Princeton University, October 1958, at the 9th Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society.
“Liberty and Property” is copyright ©1988 by Margit von Mises who gave her permission for the printing of this essay and to Bettina Bien Greaves for help in finding the original version.
The Washington Post reports:
When George Stinney Jr. was executed for the killings of two white girls in 1944, he was so small that the straps of South Carolina’s electric chair didn’t fit him properly, and he had to sit on a book for his electrocution.
Michael Vick filed for bankruptcy in July 2008, while serving time in Leavenworth federal prison for participation in an illegal dog-fighting ring. He was then earning 12 cents per hour mopping prison floors. Six years later he has almost paid back the full $17.8 million he owed his creditors, including returning $6.5 million of salary to the Atlanta Falcons, his former employer.
Liberty & Property
At the end of the eighteenth century there prevailed two notions of liberty, each of them very different from what we have in mind today referring to liberty and freedom.
There’s a new mini-reivew of Hoppe’s new book at Target Liberty:
Back in June, I wrote about how the state of Nebraska would love to sue Colorado in the federal courts to force the end of cannabis legalization in Colorado:
Were it free to do so under US law, the State of Nebraska would surely be happy to impose sanctions against Colorado for its non-conformity. Nebraska may yet get what it wants if it finds a way to do so through the federal courts. When it comes to government agents, the urge to rule does not stop at the border.
Appendix: The Libertarian Movement
In the last half-dozen years, the growing and expanding libertarian movement has evolved into an infrastructure of groups, organizations, periodicals, and institutions, each performing different and vital functions that contribute to the overall goal. This appendix provides an annotated outline of these groups and institutions.
1. The Libertarian Party
1516P Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Chapter 15: A Strategy for Liberty
Education: Theory and Movement
And so we have it: a body of truth, sound in theory and capable of application to our political problems — the new libertarianism. But now that we have the truth, how can we achieve victory? We face the great strategic problem of all “radical” creeds throughout history: How can we get from here to there, from our current State-ridden and imperfect world to the great goal of liberty?
