No International Organization Over Land or Seas
From Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty (Vol. 1, Part 2, Chapter 3; p. 56):
“That the seas were to be open to all and free from government control was an idea that Grotius, the founder of international law, derived from Spanish philosophical thought, especially from the work of Francisco Suarez.
Last Knight Reviewed yet again
Here:
If you’re going to write a biography of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), you have your work cut out for you. You face a mountain of books, articles, speeches, and correspondence by and about the great libertarian economist and his forebears, contemporaries, disciples, and critics, much of it in German.
Summer Fellows 2008
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The blog works, knock on wood
There is this term in the software world: upgrade. You think it might mean upgrade but it doesn’t necessarily. Sometimes it means two weeks of maddening frustration, searching forums, waiting, crashing, workarounds, headaches, screaming, cursing, and contemplated defenestrations. So it has been with the Mises blog, but after all of this, the system seems to have stabilized. A major factor here is that all the world’s spam comments seem to be directed mainly at the Mises blog, so getting the creeps banned is #1 priority.
Europe’s Internet Troubles: The History Continues
According to Mises, in the final stage of the interventionist process, the government “must fix the prices of raw materials and semi-manufactured products, and eventually also wage rates, and force businessmen and workers to produce and labor at these prices.”Last Knight Live Blog: Final Entry - Kraus
This is the last post of a quite long journey across the content of the book. I have decided to stop here, i.e. omit the discussion of the last two chapters, Fragmentation of the Movement and Last Years, not because they are uninteresting, in a number respects they certainly are, but because I am not particularly interested in personal matters. Those of you who have followed this live blog more or less regularly will have noticed that it is theoretical matters which interest me most.
Hoppe’s TSC in Portugese
Hoppe’s great A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism has now been translated into Portugese by
Klauber Cristofen Pires: Uma Teoria sobre Socialismo e Capitalismo: Economia, PolÃtica e Ética. Many thanks to Mr. Pires.
Why Not Try the Free Market?
Taxi drivers in Washington DC went on strike recently to protest the mayor’s decision that they use meters rather than a fare zone system. Well, why not just let each taxi company charge what they want and in a manner in which they choose? In other words, for once why not try the free market instead of the government controlled taxi system that you find in most (perhaps all) cities?
Last Knight Live Blog 28 - Kraus
In this entry I am going to comment on some aspects in one of Mises’s book-length monograph, Theory and History, on epistemology/methodology of social science as a whole, not just economics narrowly conceived. Last Knight’s chapter 21 deals comprehensively with a number of issues in Theory and History. As the book’s title suggests, the meaning and problems in connection with multi-faceted problems in theoretical and historical dimensions of social science research constitute the core of it.
