Micah White at The Guardian writes of the growing danger of ecofascism or environmental authoritarianism. Some environmentalists, like James Lovelock and Pentti Linkola, want to put democracy on hold and/or return humanity world-wide to a primitive state of existence in order to combat global warming.
Superb anti-intellectual property article by Antiwar.com Research Editor Jason Ditz, The Road To (Intellectual) Serfdom, in Forbes. Ditz notes Russia’s use of copyright violation as a pretense to silence political opposition, and also criticizes Republican Orrin Hatch’s efforts to expand and strengthen IP law over the years. As Ditz writes:
This transcript is the second in a series of Murray Rothbard lectures on the history of thought. Here he explains what is wrong with the “great man” model of the history of science. Rothbard argues for his own method of sorting the wheat from the chaff in the history of ideas.
Dr. John P. Cochran was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and raised in Phoenix a Arizona. He received his B.A. in economics at Metro State College of Denver and completed his M.A. and PhD in economics at University of Colorado. He is currently Dean, School of Business and professor of Economics at Metropolitan State
College of Denver. He is also the co-author of The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research.
If you were not a scholar then what do you think you would be doing now? Do you have any hobbies?
Austrians and others interested in fractional-reserve banking (FRB) will find of interest a banking reform about to be proposed in the UK. Douglas Carswell, an Austrian economics-informed member of the UK parliament for Clacton, is planning to introduce a so-called “Ten Minute Rule Bill” after Prime Minister’s Questions tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 15) that could have significant implications for current centralized FRB practices.
One of the main functions of a price is that it carries information. What information does a price transmit? According to one theory, a price transmits information about the caprice of the buyer or the seller. Prices at the grocery store are high and wages for unskilled labor are low because fat-cat grocers and employers are just evil people. Their evil is given further expression during disasters: they take advantage of the plight of others and jack up the prices of the goods and services they have on offer.
