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“Animism ascribed to all things of the universe the faculty of action.  When experience moved people to drop this belief, it was still a

With every new leap of technology, we hear cries that the Age of Abundance is dawning and that we must reject the old economics of scarcity for the

Ron Paul recently showed how he is very open to debate, by having both Professor Joseph Salerno (a 100% reserves advocate) and Professor Larry Whit

Daniel Kuehn objects to my

Ernest Borgnine, who died yesterday, said this in an interview in 1998 (h/t Justin Ptak):

An amusing thing about Friedmanite positivism is its remarkable naïveté about how empirical social science research is actually done.

“A social system based on this natural position regarding the assignment of property rights is, and will from now on be called, pure capi

“The theory involves a conceptual conflation of democracy and liberty (freedom) that can only be called scandalous, especially coming from se