Written by Neodoxy for The Voluntaryist Reader. This is an attempt to provide a simple, but extensive introduction to economics and market theory for anyone who is new to the subject or who is trying to better understand the Austrian approach to economics. I also hope that it will prove useful for anyone who could…
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The Economics of World Government
Lecture by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, as published at LewRockwell.com. At the beginning, I want to repeat a few points that I have made in my previous lecture on law and economics, and then I want to get to an entirely different subject than the one that I dealt with in that previous lecture. Because there is…
Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society
Written by Stephan Kinsella for LibertarianPapers.org. Abstract: An ethic of self-ownership combined with Lockean homesteading of external resources provides a plausible grounding both for anarchist opposition to the state and for an attractive anarchist legal order. Such an ethic can be understood as specifying that each person prima facie has the right to control his…
Difficult Questions and Lies: 4 Reasons to Tell the Truth
Written by Ariadne for PositiveParentingConnection.net. Let’s be honest, many parents lie, some occasionally, others quite often. The reasons vary, like being afraid to set a limit or saying no, avoiding complicated topics like sexual education, death and illness or simply not knowing what to say. Parents also might lie about social situations or support fairy…
The Right to Self-Defense
Written by Andrew Napolitano for LewRockwell.com. In all the noise caused by the Obama administration’s direct assault on the right of every person to keep and bear arms, the essence of the issue has been drowned out. The president and his big-government colleagues want you to believe that only the government can keep you free…
A Fundamental Flaw of Central Planning
Written by Rollo McFloogle for Inside McFloogle’s Mind. As you progress deeper in thought about free markets and the state and the moral consequences of both, you begin to see some of the intricacies of how they work. Prior to this, you were able to see in more and more ways that the state cannot…
Who Benefits From the Fed?
Written by David Howden for Mises.org. We recently looked at the Federal Reserve’s 2012 results. In particular, we pointed to some positive and negative developments. On a positive note, the Fed managed to shrink down the size of its balance sheet by approximately one-third of a percent. (Hey, it’s a start.) On a negative note,…
Learning Advice from a Learning Life
Written by Idzie D. for her personal blog. Learning is something very personal and very individual, so having found myself being asked for generalized learning advice, I find myself both eager to share but hesitant about what to share! So I’ll simply do what I always strive to do: write from personal experiences. Share what…
The Separation of X and State
Written by Rollo McFloogle for Inside McFloogle’s Mind. While reading The Privatization of Roads and Highways, the author, Walter Block, discusses the unwillingness of people to even begin to think about the complete privatization of roads, which are widely considered to be a public good. The point of the book is to quell these concerns…
Don’t Rely on a Quack Doctor
Written by Robert Higgs for Independent.org. A man goes to his doctor for a routine checkup. The doctor performs a perfunctory examination and informs him that unless he receives an experimental treatment the doctor has devised, he will soon become disabled. “What’s it cost, Doc?” the man asks. “Well, unfortunately it’s not cheap, Mr. Smith,…