The Uncompromising Friend of Liberty
Mises missed no opportunity, in private as well as in public, to proclaim his abhorrence of all forms of state intervention.
The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules
Are discussed in Inside Counsel at Net neutrality rules finally published:
The FCC adopted three basic protections intended to prohibit providers from discriminating against legal Internet traffic and enforce transparency:
In Defense of Mises’s Utilitarianism
“The only fully Misesian economists are Rothbardians, and most Rothbardians have abandoned Mises’s entire approach to the ‘why’ of liberalism.”
Students of classic liberalism and Austrian economics might come across a curious inconsistency concerning the doctrine of utilitarianism in Austro-liberal literature.
The Intransigence of Ludwig von Mises
The Rap against Unearned Riches
Only if one understands the subjective theory of value may he proceed logically to a belief in private ownership and control of property.
Order vs. Organization
We are enamored of order; this passion runs through all of mankind, from the housewife to Einstein.
A “Grammatical” Mishap?
Consider the following statements:
“The United States of America is the greatest nation on earth.”
“The United States is the vanguard of the free world.”
“America is a nation of oil-hungry fat cats.”
The Good One vs. the Bad One
That’s what Klaus Bernpaintner tells me the Mises Institute of Sweden called this article, summarizing my debate with Karl Smith. They weren’t choosing sides, just neutrally reporting on this photo they assembled from the YouTube of the debate:
Operation Twisted Logic
The Fed’s entire policy program suffers from the same defect that all market interventions suffer from. The moment you stop intervening, the underlying problems come to the surface again. Administrative price setting does not change economic reality, at least not for the better.
The Unit of Social Life
Whatever other attributes the human being brings to bear on the social order of which he is the integral, his will to live comes first in the hierarchy.
