Just came across an interesting blogpost by one Bary Stocker, a “British philosopher based in Istanbul”: Hoppe: Habermas’ Anarcho-Conservative Student.

It is a simple news report about regulatory changes, but the NYT figures that Ron’s book is important enough for a strong mention near the end. Times are changing.

The news reports the death of Irving Kristol, one-time socialist turned democratic capitalist. He was of course not a libertarian; his love for the market extended to two cheers only. He was also instrumental in tying the capitalist cause to a celebration of the warfare state–the whole ideology of neoconservatism–which didn’t help the cause much in the end.

Bloomberg reviews End the Fed:

Can the Fed be fixed? Don’t bother, writes U.S. Congressman Ron Paul in “End the Fed,” a blistering libertarian broadside from a firm believer in Austrian economics.

As many readers here probably already know, Chicago economist John Cochrane wrote a blistering reply to Paul Krugman’s NYT Magazine piece on what’s wrong with the economics profession. When I read Cochrane’s piece, I was dismayed because many of his arguments to defend himself against Krugman’s attacks would just as well “prove” that the Austrian school is defunct.

In reference to my 2002 LRC article Extreme Prefixes, Stephen Fairfax sent me this guest post:

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Interactive Graphic Illustrates How U.S. Patent System Has Driven American Economy notes: