Great news, folks. The good people at the Ludwig von Mises Institute have released version 2.0 of their media and book “torrents,” which is simply the easiest way to obtain the entire Mises online library. (Click here for a brief intro to torrents.) What is particularly awesome about LVMI in this regard is that they [...]
Smoking is Healthier than Fascism
May 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
Progressives Against Progress
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another.
Freedom: My Anti-Gov
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct behavior and bad outcomes will provide a learning experience. When government gets in the way of this feedback loop, it prevents the development of virtue and merely subjects the individual to the will of the State.
Free Trade Now!
March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is the sixth article in a series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by our friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
Earth Liberation
March 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is the fourth article in a series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by our friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
The Meaning of Competition
December 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
It is disturbingly easy for arguments originally employed on behalf of the free market to be turned against it. In this article I hope to redeem the concept of competition, which perhaps more than any other argument has been corrupted into the service of the state. Rather than as a peaceful, cooperative, and ordered network, [...]
How the Free Market Works
October 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In Rothbard’s vast compendium of economic wisdom, the great book Man, Economy, and State, we read much that has not yet been properly popularized. His production theory, for example, is quite different from the standard account. I have tried to distill his theory into this synopsis, but it is by no means the only part [...]
Voluntary Slavery
May 28, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Violation of Rights
April 25, 2009 By 4 Comments
In a previous post, I have said that the progress of rights is constrained by two principles, that of homesteading and consensual exchange. The first says that property may not be acquired from nature without demonstrating ownership in some way. Originally this must require altering it some obvious way, but as a society develops a [...]
