Man Turns Down 24 Round Trip Airline Tickets Because of Tax Concerns
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.
Connecting the dots
Rx for Outsourcing: Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley
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.
What Is a Stock ‘Worth’?
Heilbroner on Mises and Socialism
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.
Fusionism
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.
Indians, the Colonials, and Lockean Theory
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
What We Mean by Individualism
Another Take on a Mises Song
At the Mises University this year, there will be another performance of “Mises: The Musical“ that will feature some changes from the last performance, though they won’t be as substantial as the ones made by Daniel D’Amico in this innovative version of the Mises Circle song: “Mr. Stonier and Mr. Sweezy.” The original in German tells the story of two socialists who visited the Mises circle. The English edition preserves the original melody (of course).