Depoliticize Everything
When politics isn't fomenting conflict, raising time preferences, and stupefying the nation, it is attenuating progress. Contrary to the incessant jabbering on the need for "change," all politicians despise change. Change erodes political power and undermines regimes.
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In the days when the Bell System had a monopoly on phone service, people used rotary phones asked an operator to connect them, and wireless calls were not even a gleam in Dick Tracy's eye, the government began redistributing some of Bell's pr ... More »
Stephan Kinsella: Property and Science: The Twin Pillars of Prosperity and Civilization--versus Patent and Copyright
As noted in prevoius posts, ((Open Science Summit Streaming Live; Kinsella on Panel at Open Science Summit.)) I spoke this past weekend on a panel at the Open Science Summit, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. My panel& ... More »
Jim Fedako: A little fall cleaning
Because my home PC keeps getting filled with downloads from the iStore – a byproduct of teenagers, I frequently have to purge unneeded files in order to free memory. So it is with my gray matter – occasionally things have to go. But what to purge ... More »
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Mises Daily: Depoliticize!
Depoliticize Everything by Stephen Mauzy When politics isn't fomenting conflict, raising time preferences, and stupefying the nation, it is attenuating progress. Contrary to the incessant jabbering on the need for change, ... More »
David Veksler: "Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies"
From Wired: Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies If we are not allowed to steal money from companies that make things that people want and from the salaries of people who want to buy their products, then we will not be able to hire ... More »
Jeffrey Tucker: The Obsession with Equality
I've never understood the academic obsession with achieving social and economic equality. Isn't society better off when half the population is well off and half is less poor than if absolutely everyone is poor? Isn't all the talk about in ... More »
Jeffrey Tucker: How some companies raise prices in recession
An across-the-board 35% price increase from American Gypsum: ... More »
Stephan Kinsella: Marx was right about capitalism
Hoppe has explained how Marx was essentially correct in his theory of history and class analysis. His main mistake was his understanding of exploitation, which was based on a flawed understanding of the labor theory of value. As Hoppe argues, drawing ... More »
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