Here is an article on Monopoly, the game by Parker Brothers, written by Ben Powell, now of San Jose State, back in February 2004. It was posted before we had a blog that permitted reader reaction.
Out of the blue this morning, this email arrived to our offices, and the writer challenged us to post it. So I’m posting it.
It is high time to shift out of the pragmatic mind-set that has been our national characteristic. The grand alternatives for social organization must be reconsidered. The loss of faith in the socialist dream has not, and probably will not, restore faith in laissez-faire. But what are the effective alternatives? Does anarchism deserve a hearing, and, if so, what sort of anarchism?
Here’s a question for you. What’s funnier: we buffoons who make up the cast of investors, brokers, kibitzers, commentators who produce the daily theatrical Sitcom called the US stock market, or Saturday Nite Live? I vote for us, if comedy is valued over drama.
A world in which all goods are custom goods, as explained by LibertyGuys.
USA Today’s front page headline today really isn’t that far from mine: “Cutting back at the pump: Gas use drops as prices rise”. But USA Today writer James Healey’s economic insight doesn’t stop there... It looks like the supply curve slopes up!
Charles Adams, adjunct faculty of the Mises Institute, gives an interview of his outstanding book on the history of taxation. See it here.
