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Cantor/Cox Reviewed
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 12:27pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Review of Literature and Economic Liberty by Allen Porter Mendenhall:I devoured this book—a valuable corrective to the Marxism (or quasi-Marxism) that has attained monopoly powers in literary circles—as if it were the last I would ever read, and I regret that ... -
Class starts tonight
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 10:25am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
As we are looking into printing options for Robert Murphy’s wonderful Lessons for the Young Economist book (available in PDF and ePub), I wanted to remind everyone that class starts tonight in his first course based on the text. It ... -
Buy Sudafed and Go to Jail
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 6:43am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Well, it finally happened in my own community. That stupid Bush-era law that rations pseudoephedrine, the ingredient that makes Mucinex and Sudafed work to unstuff the nose, has finally landed someone in the slammer for 20 years. Tanna Nacole Jarrell is 31 years old ... -
The Socialists Still Hate Rand
Posted: September 7th, 2010, 6:05am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Corey Robin reviews the two new books on Ayn Rand, including my favorite among them by Jennifer Burns, in this week’s The Nation. It makes for a gripping read, if you can stand the posturing throughout.The Nation serves up the predictable ... -
Two Mises Titles Taken Down from Mises.org
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 1:09pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
I’m sorry to say that we had to remove Omnipotent Government (1944) and Bureaucracy (1944) at the demand of Libertarian Press. As the old confusions over the copyrights to Mises’s books have shaken out, it turns out that only two of Mises’s original editions of ... -
The Market? The NYT Contemplates the Unthinkable
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 6:32am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
You know, there are some laugh-out-loud moments in this New York Times piece that dares to imagine the unthinkable: Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall.As the economy again sputters and potential buyers flee — July housing sales sank 26 percent from July ... -
Tom Woods Starts on Monday!
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 2:41pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
The New Deal: History, Economics and Law taught by Thomas Woods. The technology is incredible, the content even more so. No matter where you are, you can be a student of Thomas Woods.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:... -
What is Wrong with Paul Allen’s View of the World
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:53am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Patent-enforcement madness often seems to have much in common with terrorism, but there is a bright side. It is helping more and more people think through the nature of competition, marketing, government privilege, what can and can’t be property, and other important considerations. It has ... -
The Skinny on American Academia
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:02am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
From the Economist: “America’s universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM.”Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Good Research Universities?... -
Used Car Prices, Yikes
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:56am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Edmunds Daily is reporting 10-40% increases in used car prices over last year. H/T J Jacoby.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Commodity Prices and Inflation: What’s the Connection?Does ... -
Milgram Experiment Redux
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:18am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Jeff Riggenbach’s extraordinary article today recalls the revealing results of the Milgram Experiment in 1961, and describes the political implications. Here is a documentary showing a repeat of the experiment. The results are reproduced time and again.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated ... -
Strange Economic Headlines
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:54am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Economy Avoids Recession Relapse as Data Can’t Get Much WorseJoin the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:State = Death and PovertyBecause the government can work magic... -
Who was wrong on the housing bubble?
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:25am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
It’s a fascinating list put together by Economics of Contempt. Perhaps it is biased but I note the number of free-market thinkers here, people with a supply-side bias who do not have the Austrian theory of the business cycle figured into their intellectual apparatus.At ... -
Exporting the American System to Afghanistan After All
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:19am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Troubles at Afghan Bank Jolt Financial System: “The Afghan government intervened to shore up a deeply troubled bank on Tuesday, sending shock waves through the capital and prompting fears that Afghanistan’s pervasive corruption had now put the country’s entire financial system at risk….”Join the ... -
Landsburg on Free Ideas
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 8:43am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Steven Landsburg has the right idea: “Whatever is the defining idea of the next decade, it ought to be free. Come to think of it, the idea that ideas ought to be free could well be the defining idea of the next decade.” He ... -
They really are against growth
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 2:29pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
I was struck by the argument that we would be very lucky to have a “lost decade” like Japan. But the article at the Progressive didn’t seem to make a very good case (incomes are more equal there than here? Low unemployment? Universal health ... -
How Regulations Grow
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 8:26am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
The WSJ today runs a story on cigarette rolling machines that illustrates how the regulatory state can count on private enterprise to lobby for ratcheting up regulations.It seems that there is a tax loophole that permits role-your-own smokes to be taxed at a far ... -
The book that keeps on giving
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:05am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Hoppe’s Democracy: The God that Failed, reviewed and discussed at length on the forum. Everyone I know who has read it has never looked at the world in quite the same way.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:... -
That cause-and-effect thing can be tricky
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:01am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
And you don’t get it, you can believe just about anything: Economists agree: Stimulus created nearly 3 million jobsJoin the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Turning Stones into Bread: Obama’s Costly Stimulus ExperimentCheering NPR... -
Interview with Thornton on the Mysterious Richard Cantillon
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 1:24pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Mark Thornton’s new translation of Cantillon’s great book is a surprising achievement for the ages. Here is my interview with him. Thornton is a master of the subject.Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:... -
See if you can spot the glorious stimulus
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:00pm PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
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The Patient is Dying; Poison Him More
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 10:56am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
The brilliant Bernanke: “”In particular, the [Federal Open Market] Committee is prepared to provide additional monetary accomodation through unconventional measures if it proves necessary, especially if the outlook were to deteriorate significantly.”Just so we are clear: if something doesn’t work, even if it doesn’t ... -
Art Carden at Forbes
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 9:34am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
He is doing wonderful things!Join the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Forums pass 4000 markBlog ImprovementsEntry-Specific Comment Feeds Now Enabled... -
Interview with J.G. Hülsmann, in French!
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:34am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Available through the blog of professor Damien Theillier, which chronicles his visit to the Mises Institute, is this video interview in French with Guido Hulsmann. Maybe this is only amazing for Americans, but I can’t but find it remarkable that Guido’s French sounds ... -
The rock was thrown up but it is falling down again
Posted: August 24th, 2010, 9:50am PDT by Jeffrey Tucker
Existing Home Sales PlungeJoin the discussion and post a commentRelated posts:Forget HalloweenPlaying cards and drinking teaTax Credit Pumps Up Latest Home-Buying Bubble...