I am curious if anyone is aware of any good reason why “means” in the praxeological structure of action (actor chooses and employs certain means to attain his chosen end) cannot generally include both non-human (causal) and human means? If my aim is to acquire a fish, I have a variety of means to attain this end: I can use a fishing pole, in which
Since time is short and there are a practically infinite number of web sites and blogs, it might be interesting to try to see what are the top 5 blogs and top 5 sites visited regularly by Mises.org-ians. I asked Jeff Tucker for his top 5 (or so), he listed these: Mises , LRC , Catallarchy , FEE , Antiwar.com , Acton , Google news , Economic
As I pointed out recently , IP rights such as copyright and patent in effect grant the holder the right to control the property and bodies of other people (see p. 44 of this article ; p. 862 of this article ). This is illustrated by the case of Samuel Beckett and his 1953 play “Waiting for Godot” (discussed and parodied in Waiting for Opradot , by
Amazon has been sued by Cendant for violation of its patent for “System and Method for Providing Recommendation of Goods or Services Based on Recorded Purchasing History”. Cendant claims Amazon’s “recommendations” feature infringes its patent because it tells customers who are interested in an item what other products were purchased by customers
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