Andy Duncun reviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Theory of Socialism and Capitalism on Catallarchy—a very nice review indeed.
This piece shows that Steven Landsburg needs a better armchair. He writes concerning an increase in the minimum wage: “Sure, you’ve lost your job. But don’t forget, this was a minimum-wage job in the first place.” I’d flunk any Auburn sophomore who wrote this on an exam. Does Landsburg’s statement generalize into a dismissive attitute toward all the supposed harm done by price floors and price ceilings?
In this article by Rothbard, we find the following: “while liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.”
In the fall of 1990, I flew from Atlanta to San Diego, with our flight hugging the border of the United States and Mexico as we moved across the southwest deserts of New Mexico annd Arizona. The farther west we flew, the more I saw some strange sights, those being great, circular fields of green crops located next to desert sands.
Chris Westley gets a letter from Kirkuk, Iraq, about his article:
