How Much Is Enough?
How Much Is Enough? contains valuable discussions of happiness research in economics and a capsule history of both Western and Asian intellectual history; but unfortunately the book is a disappointment. It rehashes stale complaints against the free market, and its policy proposals have sinister implications.
National Independence
"What should we do in case of war," it is said, "if we are placed at the mercy of England for iron and coal?"
The English Crown vs. Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Bay Colony's authorities, with their old self-governing charter, had good reason meanwhile to fear the onset of the Restoration.
Friedman on Intolerance: A Critique
In Milton Friedman's view, if you are not tolerant, you cannot be a libertarian.
The Circle Bastiat
John P. Cochran: Central Banks: Reform or Abolish
Gerald P. O’Driscoll has an important new working paper at Cato, “Central Banks: Abolish or Reform.”
HT to Kurt Schuler at Free Banking.
Conclusion:
We have two bad systems: the fiscal and the monetary. They are intertwined now as they were in
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Mark Thornton: A Not So Bright Idea
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb, but few people are aware that he came up with an idea for a new monetary system. He was dissatisfied with the gold standard (under the National Banking Acts) and also with fiat pap
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Peter G. Klein: Nobel Prize for "Market Design"
This year's Nobel-ish prize in economics goes to Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley for research on matching methods and the resulting application to market design. Briefly, this work deals with allocating resources in the absence of money and prices.
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John P. Cochran: Austrian Influence: China and the WSJ
More signs that the writings of Hayek, Mises, and modern Austrian economists are beginning to have some influence even in places where it might be least expected despite the efforts of Professors DeLong and Krugman to discredit thses
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Economics in One Lesson
- Frustration at the wide-open choices of available reading
- FBI raids home for "Anarchist literature"
- Nap as (single) universal Ethic
- Cascadia
- Corporations
- Why I am no longer a socialist
- Possibly interesting article on the markets' need of the state
- NAP, State and Society
- The despair of communism.
- Films involving anarchy?
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