Taxes
It is said, “There is no better investment than taxes. Only see what a number of families it maintains, and consider how it reacts upon industry: it is an inexhaustible stream, it is life itself.”
Should the State Support the Arts?
It is absurd to say we wish to do away with religion, education, property, labor, and the arts simply because we oppose government subsidies. Rather, we merely oppose stealing from one group of citizens and handing over their wealth to others.
The Broken Window
What if someone says that it is a good thing to break windows; it causes money to circulate; the encouragement of industry in general will be the result of it?
The Determination of the Purchasing Power of Money
[This article is excerpted from chapter 17 of Human Action: The Scholar’s Edition.]
The first full day in Salamanca
Doug French introduced the conference, in a room in the St. Esteban Convent in Salamanca, Spain, that just overwhelms you with its history and meaning. Our coffee was served in a hall said to be the place where Columbus actually waited to meet with Queen Isabella to find out the fate of his proposed exploration of the new world.
Elated with Jennifer Burns’s book on Rand
Hardly anything else in the world can be interesting if you are reading Jennifer Burn’s biography of Ayn Rand called Goddess of the Market. It’s the kind of book that while reading a bomb could go off around you and you wouldn’t notice. It is that engaging, page after page. She manages to be once objective and compelling, reconstructing Rand’s amazing life and work along with her relations with colleagues.
Libertarian Papers: on libertarian dilemmas, and probability theory
Two new Libertarian Papers articles published this week:
41. “Why There are No Dilemmas in Widerquist’s ‘A Dilemma for Libertarians’“, by Lamont Rodgers
Contra Law and Economics
It was Austrian economics and its proponents who raised eyebrows when they first explored the writings of what is here referred to as “standard Law & Economics,” i.e., mainly the thought of Judge Richard Posner.
Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine
The way to make bread he’d conceived
Cost less than people could believe.
Rothbard’s Dream in Salamanca
It’s 2009 and 14 years after Murray N. Rothbard died, and one of his last plans that he had talked about with Jesus Huerta de Soto was an international conference in Salamanca, Spain, the birthplace of economics,
