The Economist for February 5 contains an article that, for many of us, introduces a novel mode of production: sharing. While voluntary (without which it would be confiscation, not sharing), this mode of exchange seems to abjure not only counterexchanges of money, but any and all kinds of formal bookkeeping of the sort that normally accompanies barter and other forms of nonmonetary exchange.
Andy Kessler of Wired wonders about American tolerance of the monopolistic US Postal Service:
Oh so rarely, the New York Times‘ editorial page make good economic sense, and its position opposing the Bush Administration’s Social Security privatization plans is one of those times. Sure, its motives reflect devotion to winning a partisan battle than to sound economics. Indeed, it would rather have Social Security strengthened and expanded.
Dear President Harter,
I am an attorney in Houston, Texas, a former adjunct law professor, and a widely published author on legal, economic, and related subjects. I am aware of the discliplinary action threatened against UNLV’s economics dept. Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Dear President Harter:
As a teacher of business ethics at Chapman University, I am truly revolted at the idea that Professor Hans Hoppe’s generalizations, which simply serve as illustrations of statistically valid economic principles as applying to the behavior of different people with different beliefs and attitudes, should serve as grounds for any kind of academic reprimand.
Dear President Carol C. Harter,
Universities are supposed to contribute to the development of character in their young charges. All too often they prefer to breed spineless, spoilt youngsters, forever poised to receive offence and ever eager to deploy Soviet-style procedures to destroy careers and reputations.
Have you ever wondered why power plugs have the shape they do? The common American Type A design dates back to the original 1920’s two-pin plug design. Why are we still using 1920’s technology to power electric devices when virtually every other household technology has experienced rapid change and evolution?
CBS Marketwatch: “The surprising thing about the private investment accounts proposed as a Social Security reform and considered a hallmark of an ownership society is that they’ll likely leave account owners with little direct control.
Joe Lockard, a professor of American literature at Arizona State University, is the latest entrant in the hate-Tom-Woods parade. According to Lockard, I’m just dead wrong from page one. Here is my full response to his sweeping attack.
