My friend Pete tipped me off to this article, which explains that the growing popularity of biofuel production is driving up beer prices. Unfortunately, this “unintended consequence” will probably just make it more popular.
I was once again the victim of a monopoly; the Girl Scouts and their delicious cookies. Here exists the true monopoly; a restriction of supply (cookies available only once per year), and a higher-than-market price (based on equivalent cookies available at Wal-Mart).
[First published in Left & Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, 1967.]
I was born on the lower East Side of New York and brought up on the lower West Side. (I bring in these facts as introduction to some ideas that may be of general interest, not as autobiography.) Of my earliest experiences I remember practically nothing.
I should have known, but I just found out that another FairTax bill was introduced in Congress last month. John Linder (R-GA) introduced H.R. 25, “The FairTax Act of 2007,” on the first day of the 110th Congress. There are 55 cosponsors.
Me and my angelic wife are heading to our favorite Sunday restaurant, the Ding How II. Since it is Sunday, churches with full parking lots line the boulevard to the restaurant. I’m speeding by, because my stomach is sending a wireless message to the brain that the body needs refueling, fast. Therefore, I’m driving like a madman.
One of the great heros of American classical liberalism was William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), author of this weekend’s read.
Wikipedia calls him “the leading American advocate of free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard.’
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And every other woman in America. So much, in fact, that they want to be sure we don’t have a chance to make what they consider to be bad choices about contraception.
Murray Rothbard noted some years ago, somewhat ruefully, the connection between science fiction and libertarianism in his comments on the “modal libertarian”. But, well, what other genre of literature can be argued is fundamentally libertarian? Eric S.
Some friends and I have been taking nominations for the most Mengerian meal and the most Mengerian film.
Any suggestions? Current Nominations for films:
A. Cars, the town’s profit drops off because it’s too general a production process and they have to expand their offering through nostalgia and customer service.
