Taxes and History
The parasite - the state - has to have a host. First there had to be production before there could be something to tax or steal. Kings waged dynastic wars requiring high taxation. Revolutions and secession resulted.
Recent Podcast Episodes
The Myth of a Fair Tax
The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers.
Catallactic Functions and Real Persons in ‘Man, Economy, and State’ and ‘Human Action’. (Further) Elements for an Austrian Theory of the Firm
From the session on “Austrian Theory and Method,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Teaching Austrian Business Cycle Theory and Macroeconomics
From the session on “Macroeconomics: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Getting Mises Right: On the Philosophy and Logic of Praxeology
From the session on “Austrian Theory and Method,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
An Attempt at Reconciliation of Time Preference Theory of Interest and Liquidity Preference Theory of Interest
From the session on “Austrian Theory and Method,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Secession is Not a Dirty 4-Letter Word
From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
NGDP Targeting: Macroeconomic Panacea?
From the session on “Macroeconomics: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Grover Cleveland and Hawaiian Annexation: The Case for Self-Determination
From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Intertemporal Macroeconomic Equilibrium: An Austrian Theory and Its Applications
From the session on “Macroeconomics: Theory, Policy, and Pedagogy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Is Secession Legal?
From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Conceptual Traps of Pedagogic Metaphors In a Praxeological Science
From the session on “New Frontiers in Austrian Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
A Model of Austrian Economics
From the session on “New Frontiers in Austrian Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The ‘Austrian’ School of Strategy: A Stock-Taking
From the session on “New Frontiers in Austrian Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Can Austrian Economists Beat Financial Markets? A Reconsideration of Austrian Financial Economics
From the session on “New Frontiers in Austrian Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
‘America’s Great Depression’ 50th Anniversary
From the session on “’America’s Great Depression’ 50th Anniversary,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conferenc
Doping: Never-ending story? Never-ending glory?
From the session on “Applied Economics,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Entrepreneurship and Austrian Business Cycle Theory
From the session on “Studies in Business Cycles,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The Enforceability of Interest Under a Title-Transfer Theory of Contract
From the session on “Foundations of Libertarian Political Philosophy,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Milton Friedman versus the Rothbardians: An Empirical Test
From the session on “Studies in Business Cycles,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
