John Denson, in a book that covers the history of America’s large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describes the twentieth century was the bloodiest in all history—not coincidentally a century of statism. His book is A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt.
I have for some time maintained a web page with libertarian links. But, it’s hard to maintain and is based on only one man’s knowledge.
I have moved the content of this page to a wiki so that other members of the libertarian community can help collaborate to improve this list of resources.
This year, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to American economist Edmund S. Phelps, whose book on labor was favorably reviewed by David Gordon and who has engaged the Austrian theory of the business cycle on the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
He thinks Google is crazy and that it will be very interesting to see what happens next in the copyright world:
“I still think Google lawyers will be a busy, busy bunch. I don’t think you can sue Google into oblivion, but as others have mentioned, if Google gets nailed one single time for copyright violation, there are going to be more shareholder lawsuits than Doans has pills to go with the pile-on copyright suits that follow...
Is the Chinese boom sustainable, or is China headed for a slowdown or even a financial crisis? A debate is taking place in the Far Eastern Economic Review over how the Chinese boom is being funded: bank credit expansion or retained earnings. Hofman and Kujis of the World Bank credit retained earnings by highly profitable Chinese businesses in Profits Drive China’s Boom ($).
Here is the announcement of the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, which goes to Edmund Phelps. Here is more detail. It’s another case of an economist winning a prize for correcting the errors of other economists, while not still not meeting up to the high standards set by the likes of Say and Mises.
John Brätland’s article on “sustainable development” in the QJAE recently came online. I would like to use this as an opportunity not only to highlight this important article but also to point out some of the major Austrian work on environmental issues.
Eleven states ban or restrictions hunting on Sunday: CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NJ, NC, PA, SC, VR, WV. According the an article earlier this week in USA Today (Oct. 3, p. 15A), some states are considering lifting their bans/restrictions. In a related article on the following page, hunters argue the pros and cons of Sunday restrictions on hunting.
