Yesterday I stopped at an RV/boating store to buy a 40-amp fuse for my camper. Right after I walked into the store, another man, along with his son, entered looking for a place to register his boat. Two sales clerks were available, so we both got immediate attention.
John Stossel writes in his column today:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Austrian and libertarian writings have now been translated into at least 20 languages.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_6336532
Many people have sent us this article from the NYT, one that recounts how a small but exceedingly brave group of heterodox economists have dared question the free-market orthodoxy of the profession.
Few words get the good PR that democracy does. Americans are told we must fight for democracy around the world. “Democratic” is thrown in as an adjective whenever something is considered good politically (e.g., “our democratic way of life”), and “undemocratic” is inserted if it is considered bad.
That Ludwig von Mises was the outstanding champion of laissez-faire and the free-market economy in this century is well known and needs no documentation. But in the course of refining and codifying his political views, Mises’s followers have unwittingly distorted them and made them seem at one with the modern conservative movement in the United States. Mises is made to appear a sort of National Review intellectual concentrating on the free-market aspects of conservatism.
Should you be allowed to put a “For Sale” sign on your own car?
On July 4 I was interviewed on The Political Cesspool, and we basically talked about free trade. I got the standard jibes (”Do you want your job to be outsourced Mr. Professor?” and “Free trade would work in an ideal world but not this one”). I start around 34:30 and go to the end of the hour, but you can listen to them trash me after I leave the show.
