Check out Bill Anderson’s slideshow for his online course that starts tonight. And as information-rich as this is, Dr. Anderson never just reads from his slides. He always provides loads more information in his remarks. Come join us!
To a critic who doesn’t understand it:
Associated Scholar Jo Ann Cavallo presented on “State Power and Personal Liberty in The Prince” at the Symposium on Machiavelli: Then and Now, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Hunter College, in November.
Many thanks to the anonymous donor who made this seminar possible.
I’ve previously discussed attempts to blame the accounting scandals of the early 2000s on the teaching of transaction cost economics and agency theory. By describing the hazards of opportunistic behavior and shirking, professors were allegedly encouraging students to be opportunistic and to shirk.
Although some of the enthusiasm for bitcoin is driven by a distrust of state-issued currency, it is hard to imagine a world where the main currency is based on an extremely complex code understood by only a few and controlled by even fewer, without accountability, arbitration, or recourse.HT: ZeroHe
Jason Brennan has in posts at Bleeding Heart Libertarians rendered a great service to supporters of a priori economics in the style of Mises and Rothbard, though this is far from his aim.1 To the contrary, he endeavors to show that a priori economics is untenable.
There was relatively good news for consumers in the Eurozone last week. Data released for the consumer price index (CPI) during October showed that the rate of inflation fell from 1.1 percent to 0.7 percent.
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from Hunter Lewis’s new book Crony Capitalism in America, now available in the Mises Store.
