Mises Wire

[This is part 2 of my live blog of this book]

Against Intellectual Monopoly might have begun with a story about the

Monty Python put its funny stuff on Youtube to fi

As I think more about “intellectual property” in the form of patents and copyrights, it seems that the implications for social theory a

When an author signs a publication contract, insofar as it contains strict and traditional copyright notices, he is pretty much signing his life aw

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I don’t think I’ve pushed this before, but “Master Resource,” a new free market energy blog, is in full sw

John Maynard Keynes once wrote that "the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

The monetary central planners never stop thinking of new gimmics to manipulate the money supply, price inflation and interest rates.

From Individualism and Economic Order (ironically under copyright),