Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary
This book helped me see the world more clearly and understand so much that had previously remained cloudy.
Legal System
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The Rationale for Total Privatization
To progress toward a truly free society, expropriated owners or their legal heirs should be restored as private owners to all public property.
The Socialism of Agri-Patents
ome bozo tried to patent a species in 1889, but the patent commissioner rejected it as "unreasonable and impossible." Exactly. But this changed in stages, and only fairly recently. The current regime dates from the late 1980s. These patents handed the Left their best arguments.
The Fight against Intellectual Property
IP empowers some people to use government to limit other people’s speech and actions.
Rethinking IP
Patent and copyright, to take the two worst manifestations of IP, are nothing but state monopolies that violate property rights. IP is antithetical to capitalism and the free market.
Meet Crystal Meth
Crystal meth is a horrible drug, but it is also a cheap date, the poor man’s cocaine.
With Or Without a God: Natural Law and Property Rights
The 17th-century Dutch Protestant Hugo Grotius, deeply influenced by the late Spanish Scholastics, developed a theory of natural laws that he boldl
Black Pigs and Free Enterprise
Legal or not, destruction is animal-like behavior. It's one thing when it is done by wild pigs. But when identical forms of destruction are sponsored by the state, we are talking about a form of brutality that is purely man-made.
Networks and the Digital Revolution: Economic Myths and Realities
The economy is now a networked economy. Some people even say that in this networked world centralized managerial hierarchies are obsolete; in the future, they will be replaced by decentralized, disaggregated, peer-to-peer communities.
