Foreign Aggression
[Chapter 13, The Market for Liberty]
Krugman Agrees With Tom Woods
In Tom Woods’ Meltdown, he chides conservatives who try to blame the housing bubble solely on the Community Reinvestment Act and other such particular interventions. Woods argues that only the Federal Reserve could explain the general booms (and hence busts) in market economies, and that without the Fed’s easy policies after the dot-com crash, there couldn’t have been a sustained and massive housing bubble.
Is Gay Marriage a Constitutional Right?
Cato’s Robert Levy argues that it is, in The moral and constitutional case for a right to gay marriage. He argues:
Mises.org: Kindle Edition
When Joe Salerno posted that “Austrian economists dominate the Money and Monetary Policy bestseller list for Kindle downloads,” Frank G commented, “This is great news. I wish this blog was available on Kindle. I realize I would have to pay for something that is free, but its worth it to me since I have my kindle with me just about where ever I go.”
What goes way up and what must come down
CNN is reporting on the skyscraper curse in Dubai today.
(CNN) -- When the Burj Khalifa officially opened in Dubai on Monday, much of the world press noted the irony of the world’s tallest building unveiled just weeks after the emirate’s debt crash.
The Panic of 1819
The Panic of 1819, Murray Rothbard’s incisive and extremely well-styled Columbia University dissertation, provides a fascinating history of the era and an answer to the question of when and how the boom died.
Hayek on the Tiger
“Neo-Classical Formalism” has entailed an undue concentration on the “general price level,” with an eye toward the attainment of “price stability.” Murray N. Rothbard has rightly called this a “fetish” of price stability.
Reducing the Cost of IP Law
[This paper is the conclusion of a two-part series. The first article was “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way.”]
Anti-Eating Mouth Cage US Patent Issued in 1982
A Theory of Open
This mini-treatise by Jonathan Rosenberg of Google is worth some close attention. The text echos so much of what we’ve been writing, and it certainly expresses the theory and practice of Mises.org.
Again, I say to all detractors, read Kinsella and B/L and let it all sink in.
Thank you Paul Vahur.
