If the blackmail offer is rejected, the blackmailer may exercise his rights of free speech and publicize the secret. There is nothing amiss here. All that is happening is that an offer to maintain silence is being made. If the offer is rejected, the blackmailer does no more than exercise his right of free speech, writes Walter Block. This audio
Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
Austrian critique of mainstream analysis of monopoly, monopsony, and perfect competition; the logical contradictions of anti-trust law. Recorded at Mises University 2010.
Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S. highways, and the National Traffic Safety Administration blames this on speeding, DUI, driver error, while the real problem is Sovietization of streets and roads. Recorded at Mises University
Volume 2, Article 3 (2010) I. Introduction For a long time, I have been writing about the importance of privatizing highways, mainly because of the carnage that occurs on our socialist roads. People die like flies on these statist vehicular thoroughfares, some 40,000 per year in the U.S. alone. My first publication on this topic appeared in 1979,
Volume 2, Article 4 (2010) The thesis of Van Dun (2009) is that there is a conflict between freedom and property rights, and that libertarians ought to side with the former. If not, people, many people, will likely starve to death by being trapped in their houses, unable to get out of them, or, caught outside of them, without the ability to return
Suppose we are on the upper part of the Laffer curve. That means that if the tax rate is lowered, greater tax revenues will accrue to the government. Stipulate that the state is an evil institution. This is a libertarian analysis, after all. Thus, we arrive at what must count at least, as an anomaly. A reduction in the tax rate is ordinarily
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