Posts Tagged ‘Austrian Economics’
Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman
Pulpless.com; 305 pages; $14.95 at Amazon.com/$6.99 Kindle/Free PDF Winner of the 1989 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award I like science fiction, but don't read as much as I'd like. I was pleased to find out that there's a strong theme of libertarianism in science fiction, and in fact the Libertarian Futurist Society presents their annual [...]
Alan Greenspan, What Happened To The Man Who Wrote: “Gold And Economic Freedom”?
"The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.” ~Alan Greenspan While searching through some books on gold and the economy several of them mentioned Alan Greespan's essay "Gold and Economic Freedom." Ron Paul also [...]
Ludwig von Mises on Socialism, Part Two
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state. ~ Ludwig von Mises In the second part of his lecture on Socialism in Buenos Aires in 1958, Ludwig von Mises makes an obvious statement, but startling to most critics of capitalism, "In the market economy, everyone [...]
Anarchy And The Free-Market: Yes, I’m An Anarcho-Capitalist
"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual." ~Murray Rothbard I started out as a conservative, then rediscovered my libertarian leanings and began calling myself a classical liberal. While definitely a minority position, it has some [...]
Health Care, The New Bread
"… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses" ~Juvenal Bread and Circuses; Panem et Circenses; [...]
Inclined To Liberty by Louis Carabini
Inclined to Liberty is a short primer on liberty and the free market. Louis Carabini introduces his book by telling how a dinner with a friend and two professors sympathetic to socialism, and even Marxism, inspired him to write his reflections on that evening’s discussion. The discussion of the class struggle between owners and workers reminded [...]
Beginning The Cato University Home Study Course
One of the best parts of my business is that it allows me to have more time freedom to study and learn subjects that I never had the chance to pursue. In the last two years, since discovering Ron Paul and his message of Liberty, I've been reading as much as possible about libertarianism, or classical liberalism, and Austrian Economics. I would [...]
Left and Right, Protecting the People and Big Business Like Mussolini
What Michael Moore and every one is so upset about is NOT laissez-faire free market Capitalism. It's fascism, otherwise known as "corporatism" as Mussolini wrote. The government controls privately owned businesses and "protects" them and the people, while keeping the independent small businesses from competing with the big corporations. The [...]
On Government Stimulus Programs To Spur Economic Growth In Plain Language
I've been pretty pessimistic about the government lately and on the advice of my councilor (he’s really the school councilor I used to eat with), I’m going to be positive today. He told me that I should see the glass as half full not half empty. What can I say, I get what I pay for. Anyway, I read from a Republican in [...]
Blogging Meltdown – Culprit 5: The Federal Reserve and Artificially Cheap Credit
After explaining the preceding four culprits: 1) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 2) The Community Reinvestment Act and affirmative action in lending, 3) The government's artificial stimulus to speculation, and 4) The "pro-ownership" tax code, Dr. Woods gets to the major culprit, the Federal Reserve and artificially cheap credit. The previous four [...]
Freedom Watch, 10 June 2009
Ron Paul Discuss Ron Paul's bill, HR 1207, to audit the FED. Auditing the FED seems so obvious. Only criminals would want it hidden. As of today, the bill has the necessary co-sponsors to pass the bill. Now we will see how the FED responds and how the Senate will act. Ron Paul and Daniel Hannan Ron Paul on Health Care and Daniel [...]
Blogging Gold: The Once and Future Money – Good Money is Stable Money, Part 3
The Fateful Day On 15 August 1971, Richard Nixon severed the dollar's link to gold and destroyed Bretton Woods, the world's monetary system. For three centuries before 1971, the world more or less had stable money. After a series of steps in the 1960s and early 1970s and ending on 15 August 1971, it no longer did. The capitalist economy long [...]
Blogging Meltdown: “Change you can believe in”
Obama’s economic team seems to confirm at first glance that all his talk of “change” really means more of the same – “more bailouts, more government intervention, more addressing symptoms rather than causes – along with greater deficits, and massive increases in government spending,” which our illustrious leaders in Washington [...]
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