Alfred G. Cuzán contributed “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?“ (pdf) to the Summer 1979 issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, an article which Roderick Long describes as “invaluable”, (also see Stephan Kinsella). This short article, only 7 pages of text, is one of those little pieces of conceptual dynamite that blows apart the way you’ve seen the world.
A classic, and still under-appreciated. Murray Rothbard writes:
And the Wall Street Journal celebrates his contribution.
Damnant quod non intellegunt.
An article in today’s (Feb. 20, 2006) New York Times makes clear that Canada’s much ballyhooed system of socialized medicine, in addition to being plagued by interminable waits for treatment, has prohibited competition from private medicine. But now, as the result of a ruling last June by Canada’s Supreme Court, limited forms of private medical care are apparently in process of being allowed to appear, at least in some provinces.
A new paper by Steven Kreft and Russell Sobel, “Public Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Freedom” (Cato Journal, Fall 2005), examines the causal relationship between venture capital (VC) and entrepreneurship. Do increases in venture funding lead to increases in entrepreneurial activity, or does VC flow to areas in which entrepreneurship is already taking place?
The winners write the history, and the winning states especially so. Thomas Woods, however, sets out to write a primer on American history from a different point of view, one that doesn’t glorify centralization and intervention.
The result is the only primer on American political history that is heavily informed by the economics of the Austrian School. It was also a New York Times bestseller and one of the most controversial books in American history to appear in decades.
A duck gets sick in France; Britian goes nuts. Here are the number of “confirmed” cases of death so thus far. Tens of thousands worlwide? Actually 15 in 2006. Here is a thing I wrote on this topic.
