Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stuart Mill, calling him ”shockingly muddled.”
Rothbard, more than perhaps any other scholar, exposed Mill’s muddleheadedness and its likely roots. His verdict on Mill was that he was a “woolly minded man of mush” and his philosophy “a vast kitchen midden of diverse and contradictory positions.”
According to an NPR story, Insider-Trading Ban Passes Congress, But Some See Missed Opportunity, Senator Charles Grassley was unhappy with the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act recently passed by Congress because it didn’t go far enough.
Peter named the territory over which he ruled Freeworld. He was installed in Washington in a decrepit, smelly old building which someone, evidently with a fine sense of irony, had once named The White House. This, he was told, was where the old capitalist emperors used to live.
“Alone?” he asked — “with all this floor space?”
He assigned apartments in it to Adams and other officials.
“I am going to introduce my new economic reform immediately,” he told Adams.
[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)]
All right: Even if we concede that full private property in resources and the free market will conserve and create resources, and do it far better than government regulation, what of the problem of pollution? Wouldn’t we be suffering aggravated pollution from unchecked “capitalist greed”?
