Vince Miller and the International Libertarian Movement
Vince Miller worked over the past 60-odd years to maintain and extend the institutional infrastructure of libertarianism. Those who knew him will remember him both long and fondly.
The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools
With so many state governments’ budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public education. Hopefully, the schools themselves will become only a memory of a less-enlightened past.
Review Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Many academics toil a thankless life, striving for truth amid a sea of fallacies and inaccuracies. Some who do this with mediocrity are ignored. Those who do it well are often subject to intense criticism and ridicule. A select few rise to the challenge, and with conviction, carry forward – ever aiming to convince the masses that their truthful pursuit is right. Of this miniscule number of individuals, only a handful may ever reach the point where their peers recognize them for their insights, and reward their toils accordingly. Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one such individual.
Hayek’s Road to Serfdom: Despotism Then and Now
Hayek’s motivation for writing The Road to Serfdom was the shocking speed at which so many Europeans had simply forgotten all that they had learned over the centuries about the virtues of a free society, the need for limitations on government power, and the workings of capitalism.
Defending the Gypsy Cab Driver
A proper solution to the taxicab crisis is not to co-opt the movement of gypsy cab drivers by the offer to take them into the system, but rather to destroy the system of restrictive cab licenses.
Defending the Slumlord
The owner of ghetto housing differs little from any other purveyor of low-cost merchandise.
Greenspan Speaks!
And as usual, he says nothing new or interesting. But at least he’s right, for once. Warning that deficit spending can be a problem, Greenspan also noted that reduced spending would not damage the “recovery.”
Book Review of Hoppe Festschrift
David Howden has written an excellent review of Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (New Perspectives on Political Economy, Volume 5, Number 1, 2009, pp. 73–80). Howden writes:
Real estate magnates: Fannie and Freddie
The two government-created creatures to spur home ownership have turned into the largest homeowners in the U.S. of A. according to the New York Times. The GSEs combined portfolios were close to 164,000 at the end of March, a quarter where the entities took ownership of a home every 90 seconds.
Terence Kealey: “Science is a Private Good: Why Government Science is Wasteful”
I recently attended at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum, Turkey (see my Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report).
