Tyler Cowen on the VAT

February 18, 2010 Uncategorized

Tyler Cowen seems sympathetic to the idea of imposing a national sales tax (VAT) in his post Is there a case for a VAT? But as I noted in Say No To Tax Reform,
Calls for tax reform of a distraction (no offense, my naive, youthful advocacy of a national sales tax). For good [...]

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Hoppe is my Homeboy Teeshirt

February 17, 2010 Uncategorized

‘Nuff said.

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Nina Paley’s “All Creative Work is Derivative”

February 15, 2010 AgainstMonopoly.org Blog Posts

This is an amazing animation by Nina Paley, “America’s Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist” (and creator of the amazing animated (and free online) film Sita Sings the Blues, given rave reviews including 4 stars by Roger Ebert). Entitled “All Creative Work Is Derivative” (and blogged here on her blog), and concluding “All creative work builds on what [...]

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Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property

February 14, 2010 Intellectual Property

Antiwar Radio: Stephan Kinsella
Antiwar Radio: Stephan Kinsella

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Stephan Kinsella, fellow at the Mises Institute and author of the [...]

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Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey Get the Finger

February 13, 2010 Uncategorized

Interesting when people are hoisted by their own petard–it’s terrible when those who oppose the leviathan are accused of being motivated by bigotry, ain’t it?

FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Will Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey Get the Finger
Arnold Kling
from Ed Kilgore, of the Progressive Policy Institute.
Certainly, few self-conscious libertarians have much tolerance for racism, but they [...]

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Ilya Somin on Secession

February 13, 2010 Uncategorized

Somin’s overall take on secession is reasonable, but notice how he doesn’t consider the 600,000 people killed in the Civil War, or the option of not fighting that war, when he says that Northern victory was a “far better outcome” than Southern victory would have been. Anyway, no offense, preening anti-secessionist, pro-Lincoln “libertarians” such as [...]

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Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010): Arts. 5-7

February 10, 2010 Libertarian Papers

5. “Two Concepts of Rationality”, by Danny Frederick
6. “Is There an ‘Anomalous’ Section of the Laffer Curve?”, by Walter E. Block
7. “How Anticommonism ‘Cemented’ the American Conservative Movement in a Liberal Age of Conformity, 1945–64″, by Lee Haddigan

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In Honor of David Gordon

February 9, 2010 Culture

and my Cajun heritage, and apropos nothing in particular, here is the joke “Illegal Cock Fight”:

The Louisiana State Police received reports of illegal cock fights being held in the area around Lafayette, and duly dispatched the infamous detective Desormeaux to investigate. He reported to his sergeant the next morning. “Dey is [...]

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Jeff Tucker Free Talk Live Interview on Open Information and IP

February 9, 2010 AgainstMonopoly.org Blog Posts

Jeff Tucker was interviewed yesterday by Mark Edge, as part of his “Edgington Post Interview Series,” for his Free Talk Live radio show, about the Mises Institute’s “open information” approach (see Jeff Tucker, A Theory of Open, B.K. Marcus, Mises.org on iTunes U, Doug French, The Intellectual Revolution Is in Process). [...]

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Rothbard on Corporations and Limited Liability for Tort

February 9, 2010 Uncategorized

As I’ve noted elsewhere (see posts appended below), the left-libertarian (and other) critics of corporate limited liability are off the mark. As far as limited liability for contractual obligations and debts, this is a contractual matter. As for limited liability (of shareholders) for torts (committed by employees of the corporation), there is simply no reason [...]

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Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010): Arts. 1-4: Moundsville Reconsidered; Austrian Business Cycle Theory and 100 Percent Reserves; Block on Roads; Block on Van Dun

February 8, 2010 Libertarian Papers

Four new articles published today in Libertarian Papers, vol. 2 (2010):
1. “Moundsville Penitentiary Reconsidered: Second Thoughts on Hyperreality at a Small Town Prison Tour”, by Allen Mendenhall
Abstract: In 2007, I toured Moundsville Penitentiary, a tourist spectacle that was once—and fairly recently—a working prison. I wrote about the experience as would [...]

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Dr. Callahan

February 7, 2010 Uncategorized

In his post OK, So What Have I Been Up to These Last Four Years?, Gene Callahan notes he has almost finished his PhD dissertation, so one assumes his PhD is imminent. The dissertation also looks very interesting, in particular this part:
Chapter VIII examines some post-founding American history in light of Oakeshott’s contention [...]

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IP is not a joke

February 7, 2010 AgainstMonopoly.org Blog Posts

An email I just received:
My name is Luke Mroz and I am a Ron Paul supporter in NYC and a fan of your work at Mises.org.  I just wanted to share a brief story with you from an event I went to last night:
Last night I attended a Comedy Central taping for a [...]

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Reflicted

February 7, 2010 Culture

One of my posts from years back on another blog:
Reflicted
When I was a youngling in rural Louisiana, we would often use the pejorative, colloquial term “reflicted,” as in, “Oh, shut up, you’re so reflicted!” It was a synonym, roughly, for “retarded” or stupid.
Other colloquialisms from my home state:

silver dime, meaning, a [...]

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Then and Now: From Randian Minarchist to Austro-Anarcho-Libertarian

February 6, 2010 Uncategorized

I wasn’t always a woolly-eyed anarchist. In 1989, I was still clinging to minarchy, trying to find ways to justify it. Hence, my article Freedom and Government, The Wonderland Times (underground LSU student newspaper), vol. 1, no. 6, July 5, 1989. I think I could see even then that minarchy made no sense; [...]

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Me, Mises, and … rats?

February 6, 2010 Uncategorized

From Jayel Aheram’s photostream: a rat named….
Mises Kinsella

I named her after Ludwig von Mises and Stephan Kinsella.

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The State, Destruction, and Propaganda

February 5, 2010 Uncategorized

I’ve often commented that the state is good at nothing except destruction–stealing, killing, breaking things. But it occurs to me that this may be wrong: that the state may also be good at one other thing. The reason it’s good at destruction–far better than a private criminal, say–is because it is institutionalized (see Rummel; Liberals [...]

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Swinkels and Hoppe on the Tacit Support of the State

February 5, 2010 LewRockwell.com Blog Posts

From LRC 2007:
Swinkels and Hoppe on the Tacit Support of the State
Posted by Stephan Kinsella on September 20, 2007 02:05 PM

Koen Swinkels has a great article on LRC today, Ron Paul and the Role of Ideas in Class Conflict. In the article he explains that
“The state depends for its continued existence on the [...]

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R.W. Bradford of “Liberty” Magazine on Rights

February 5, 2010 Uncategorized

Oldie from LRC, about Bill Bradford (R.I.P.) on rights:
Bradford of Liberty on Rights
Posted by Stephan Kinsella on February 15, 2004 10:36 AM

Some may recall that a few years back R.W. Bradford, editor of Liberty, argued that the age of “moralistic” or “rights-based” libertarianism a la Rothbard and Rand, had passed, and had [...]

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