October 2, 2009 – 3:06 am
When I lived in England a friend introduced me to this great show, “Yes, Prime Minister.” This was one of the great segments.
If you haven’t browsed through Despair.com, it is worth a look, especially the hilarious lithographs. I particularly like this one, which they interestingly recommend for Jim Rogers, Ron Paul, Libertarians and Austrian economists:
A couple more:
Most libertarians agree public schooling is a form of slavery and morally evil. In addition to this moral argument, the utilitarian case against public schooling is a strong one. While many libertarians and social theorists have written on this, Ivan Illich should not be missed. I recently came across his works and found great insight [...]
March 27, 2009 – 10:14 pm
In response to Peter’s comment, this is probably one of the best articles on this topic–Society Without a State–and written by one of the greatest libertarian thinkers, Murray Rothbard. Here is an excerpt:
The basic point, however, is that the state is not needed to arrive at legal principles or their elaboration: indeed, much of the [...]
February 25, 2009 – 11:03 am
I received great feedback in some emails on my article from Mises.org yesterday–”The Water Wizards of OZ.” (If you haven’t visited mises.org, do it now.) Regarding the emails…
There were two in particular–one with concerns about overpopulation, and the other about those who hold public office with the interests of “the public” at heart, versus those darned [...]
February 23, 2009 – 5:51 am
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. — John Adams
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. — Mark Twain
No man’s [...]
February 21, 2009 – 2:02 am
If you have listened to Hans Hoppe’s lectures before this may not be anything new. But because of the length of the lecture (1:30) all of his ideas are explained more fully and linked together with historical examples. Here is an article on the topic, “The Idea of a Private Law Society,” by Prof. Hoppe [...]
January 6, 2009 – 11:43 pm
Happy New Year to readers of this blog. It’s been a while since my last post due to the holidays, and now I am getting back to focussing on writing my PhD thesis. I will still try to post almost daily, but don’t hold me to it.
In case you haven’t been over to Mises.org lately, they [...]
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December 19, 2008 – 12:07 am
I decided to post some additional charts from Shadowstats.com (see more here; previous post here).
From their website on unemployment:
The SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated “discouraged workers” defined away during the Clinton Administration added to the existing BLS estimates of level U-6 unemployment.
And, finally, GDP growth:
December 18, 2008 – 11:59 pm
I learned about shadowstats.com, an excellent website, from a FEE lecture.
This CPI chart shows the govt calculation (red line), which uses the govt method from the 1990s, and the much higher (and more accurate) SGS Alternate (blue line), using the govt method from the 1980s. This is one of the reasons I wrote my Lewrockwell.com [...]
