One of my favorite websites is the Marxists Internet Archive ( marxists.org). The folks there maintain a huge volume of Marxist writings. In addition, they provide online books and articles that are essential to the well-read Marxist -- as well as the free market Misesian looking to do some research. One of those books is from none other than
While on an evening bike ride with my oldest son, we reminisced about one of the first government meetings we attended together — an annexation hearing before our county commissioners. Looking back, we agreed that the meeting turned out to be an invaluable opportunity to witness government in action. At the hearing, the attorney for the petitioner
Whether the middle schoolers in your life are educated at home or elsewhere, the best way to introduce the economics of Liberty is Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? This is the book that introduced me – at age 38 – to Austrian Economics. I read the book after my homeschooling wife bought it as an economics text for my oldest son. Penny Candy shook
It’s that time of year here in Ohio: time to make a list and check it twice. Christmas gift list? Not in this instance. It’s time for county auditors throughout the state to cause the publication of their annual lists of delinquent real property taxes. Is the intent to shame the naughty into paying their fair share? To a point. However, I believe
I didn’t realize that Japan had enacted a law that will certainly improve it’s economic malaise: Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must measure the waistlines of Japanese people ages 40 to 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44
A remorseful Dr. Frankenstein speaking to Captain Walton about the monster he (Frankenstein) created and unleashed, “You seek for unlimited power , as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.” (quote from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , paraphrased) It’s election eve
Californians can once again home school their children without fear of the state (well, almost). Is this a victory for Liberty? Or did homeschoolers in CA simply benefit from a lucky pull on the legal slot machine — a pull that this time came up three smiling judges? Of course, the latter is the case. The next challenge to homeschooling in CA
In his book, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of History , Charles Adams makes it quite clear that the taxpayers are the real servants, while the so-called public servants — the political class — are simply the masters setting the slave wage. Of course, the primaries, debates, etc., bring this truism to life, with every
The insufferable Henry Blodget, the disgraced securities analyst who is barred from working in the securities industry (he met up with Eliot Spitzer), is back to his usual chatter. He’s pushing for Mozilla to go public . He even recommends that Mozilla buy the Netscape brand and change the company’s name to Netscape. Mozilla COO John Lilly
I never quite understood the Payday interest rate controversy until today when, like clockwork, I felt the first rumble of my daily, late-afternoon hunger pangs. In Pavlovian fashion, I hastened over to the vending machine and began depositing change. Then it hit me: I was about to pay almost twice the price for a Payday bar now than I would have
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