This morning’s piece by Adam Martin reminds me of the need to get the word out about the great English political philosopher Auberon Herbert (1838-1906). He used the term “voluntaryism“ to describe the only type of social arrangement that respected people’s self-ownership--voluntary, non-coercive cooperation, which stands in sharp contrast with the state as we have long known it.

My wife and I, like yuppies we are, signed up for blood cord storage with NECBB when our baby was born a couple years ago. I get a bill every year for the annual storage fee. It’s usually $99.

Here is a Wall Street Journal article (July 6, 2005; Page B1) about Jack McCall, who won an American Airlines contest but turned down the prize of 12 round-trip coach tickets for two (for U.S. or international travel) because of tax considerations.

Indian outsourcing companies say SOX accounting regulations are helping their businesses grow 50% per year, according to the WSJ ($). They offer software, database management and compliance related services at one third the cost of a U.S. accounting firm.

Re a previous post about Heilbroner—I’ve just found in my files selected pages from Heilbroner’s Between Capitalism and Socialism (1970). See his nauseating remarks about the feasibility of socialism, and his terribly distorted and ignorant caricature of libertarianism.

An interesting piece I have recently scanned in as part of my effort to go paperless: Raico, Ralph, The Fusionists on Liberalism and Tradition, New Individualist Review, v. 3, no. 3, Autumn 1964

See also this piece by Rothbard: Frank S. Meyer: The Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué, Modern Age, Fall 1981, pp. 352-363.

While studying colonial period business practices and property rights issues, for a business & finance history class, I read Carl Watner’s Libertarians and Indians: Proprietary Justice & Aboriginal Land Rights, in a 1983 issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Watner smartly refutes the thesis that states, as Roderick Long puts it, “given the “savagery” of the Native Americans, European colonisation of the Americas could not b