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manfred - Biography of Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

manfred — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:51:35 +0000

2020. at university we are still taught that human are numbers in a two axis role model. coce, nestle and kellogs prefer to treat us that way ..

manfred - Biography of Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

manfred — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:39:47 +0000

2020. at university we are still taught that human are numbers in a two axis role model. coce, nestle and kellogs prefer to treat us that way ..

manfred - Biography of Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

manfred — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:15:20 +0000

2020. at university we are still taught that human are numbers in a two axis role model. coce, nestle and kellogs prefer to treat us that way ..

Jason Hartman - Denmark: Potemkin Village - Per Henrik Hansen - Mises Institute

Jason Hartman — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:31:22 +0000

I have discovered that there ain't no surer approach to see if you like individuals or abhor them than to go with them.

SFCbuscompany - Denmark: Potemkin Village - Per Henrik Hansen - Mises Institute

SFCbuscompany — Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:23:02 +0000

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

lacharterbuscompany - Denmark: Potemkin Village - Per Henrik Hansen - Mises Institute

lacharterbuscompany — Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:27:18 +0000

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

CCbuscompany - Denmark: Potemkin Village - Per Henrik Hansen - Mises Institute

CCbuscompany — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:32:04 +0000

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

charismacondovaughan - Denmark: Potemkin Village - Per Henrik Hansen - Mises Institute

charismacondovaughan — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:03:22 +0000

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Be the one - Ranchers and Empire in the American West - Ryan McMaken - Mises Daily

Be the one — Sat, 21 May 2016 07:10:43 +0000

Interesting article Actually There is a strong contrast between the date size and quality of farm steadings and villages between the estates of individual noble lords, and those which were owned by institutions such as churches, hospitals and colleges. solar leads

jhanu - Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies, The

jhanu — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:54:28 +0000

ahi

MT4 News Trader - To Save Europe, Free the Markets - Frank Hollenbeck - Mises Daily

MT4 News Trader — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:28:05 +0000

It wouldn't be such a good thing to hear about the long time for crisis to persist. Anyway.. interesting post. Let's hope for the best.

noah - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

noah — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:34:29 +0000

Rothbard says the state sets an example of force and coercion for the people, which is true enough, but it is people who also set the example for the state. Absent the state, that example would still be set, by parents for children. Children learn coercion and violence first from parents, only later from the state. Getting rid of the state does not get rid of institutionalized coercion. The fact is, parenting by its very nature constitutes a subtle (or not) form of emotional violence, supposedly always for the child's "own good." Some say that the words “coerce” and “coercion” do not apply to the very young child when being disciplined or protected by parents, but to me it seems a matter of degree. The line can only be drawn arbitrarily, with cultural and individual bias, on what constitutes "violence" or "aggression." Rothbard says "the parental property right must be limited in time (and) in kind... a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children [yet virtually all parents do, by degree], but also the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children." He continues: "Regardless of his age, we must grant to every child the absolute right to runaway and to find new parents or to try to exist on his own... it is totally impermissible enslavement and an aggression upon his right of self-ownership for them to use force to compel him to return {and I must assume, to compel him to not run away in the first place]. The absolute right to run away is the child’s ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age." "Now if a parent may own his child then he may also transfer that ownership to someone else. He may give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child [or, Rothbard fails to mention, he may simply abandon his property]. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children (to) allow for an allocation of children away from parents who dislike or do not care for their children." How do you inform a child that he is truly free and welcome to either leave or stay (let alone tell him he's for sale) without risking him feeling unwanted and unloved? One in a million could pull it off. Children, like most adults, mistake attachment for love. If the allocation of children away from parents who don't want or can't support their children meant those children were allocated to a place or in a way where they felt or received greater love, then all would be well, since children who are well-loved will largely be less coercive and violent as both children and adults. But of course, there is no way to know what a new owner intends to "do" with his new property, or how much he actually loves it, or how a child will react to being treated as property. So we can not really say with any certainty if the child market would make the world a better or worse place. The day parents cease coercing children and fully support their children's right of self-ownership (and support parental property rights over children) is the day we'll be ready for AC.

Randy - War Making and Class Conflict - Joseph T. Salerno - Mises Daily

Randy — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:24:18 +0000

Nice post. I think you might be on to something.

Deucalion - Central Banks are Not Innocent Bystanders - Peter St. Onge - Mises Daily

Deucalion — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:55:23 +0000

I could be wrong but I think this article confuses investment with borrowing. It's really not clear. Lower interest rates can lead to more borrowing but not necessarily more investment. As we know, higher interest rates (rate of return) generally lead to more savings and investments. Is it just me? Am I not reading the article correctly? Perhaps the article was too short and rather glib.

Gil - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

Gil — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:49:39 +0000

L:ibertarians like to point out it's been tried and failed to last. On the other hand, the current system is far more durable.

Gamble - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

Gamble — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:46:45 +0000

I think you are talking about freedom and government being contradictory, ultimately the source of all cognitive dissonance.

Gil - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

Gil — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:46:29 +0000

A classic moment of dodging the question.

Gil - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

Gil — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:45:13 +0000

Exactly you point to a short-lived moment in history. If it were great then why didn't last nor set a precedent?

vasili - Central Banks are Not Innocent Bystanders - Peter St. Onge - Mises Daily

vasili — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:14:59 +0000

Outstanding. Mark Twain is usually quoted as saying that there are lies, Big lies AND THEN THERE ARE STATISTICS. The paper is an interesting piece or misguided macroeconomy as it examines aggregate investment across all sectors, and therefore cannot even begin to be sound economics of the misesian flavor. It does however propose an interesting albeit implied observation. In page 3, last paragraph, it reports that RAPID INVESTMENT GROWTH actually is followed by low profit growth for a total of 4 quarters. So if that is the case, and we ascribe the periods of rapid investment growth to lax monetary policy, it is surprising that the authors don't make the connection.

Carl - Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work? - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

Carl — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:13:59 +0000

Well of course Ancap cannot work, it is composed of two incompatible political ideologies. But 'Lew's' ignoratio elenchi goes way deeper than merely failing to address whether or not Ancap could work, it goes all the way into the very emotion based concepts of Anarchy and Capitalism, and it is used as a means to mute the cognitive dissonance generated within their defining terms and the realities of human nature and the real world. It's used as a form of mental compartmentalization.