December 12, 2013
If It’s too Loud, You’re a Statist
When I talk to people about Liberty and Art, as I am sometimes inclined to do, one of the things we tend to argue about is whether we need more…
December 12, 2013
Speaking of Silliness
The Atlantic has a nice rejoinder to Pope Francis’s ignorant nonsense about the world economy.
December 12, 2013
Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics Argument Refuted in Under 60 Seconds
Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out that every argument presupposed that your ideology is correct? Hell, yeah! But, unfortunately, it ain’t so. Time to grow up and put…
December 11, 2013
Bleg: Help Me Come Up with Some Labels
I’m now writing book #7, Against Politics, for Princeton University Press. In it, as part of a critique of the “educative argument for democracy” (the thesis that democracy ennobles us or…
December 10, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part II: Voluntary Exchange, Euvoluntary Exchange, and the Case for Cooperation.
(A prefatory note: Most of the references are omitted. This is a summary, not an academic paper. Some of the argument here is adapted from Guzman and Munger, 2013) …
December 10, 2013
Morning links
Bruce Bartlett at economix on the basic income, with some discussion of Jessica’s post here and Matt’s paper in Basic Income Studies. On a different topic: Nelson Mandela’s shift on markets;…