Sheldon Richman sees government-corporate cooperation stealing land from its rightful owners in Africa, riffing off an article from the UK Observer and referencing Mises: As Ludwig von Mises wrote in Socialism : Nowhere and at no time has the large scale ownership of land come into being through the working of economic forces in the market. It is the result of military and political effort. Founded by violence, it has been upheld by violence and by that alone….
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Massive Land Theft Reported in Africa
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Ludwig von Mises scholar Richard Ebeling looks at Mises the policy analyst and advisor, as opposed to Mises the pure economist, over at the Coordination Problem blog : much of Mises’ conception of the general economic order, its workings and requirements, and the institutional and policy “rules” that would help establish and maintain freedom and prosperity did not arise from a pure “a priori” deductive spinning out of implications from the “action axiom.” They are, in many cases, the general theoretical insights and the social institutional and economic policy “wisdoms” derived from living through, acting within, and learned lessons from those momentous and often catastrophic events that shook Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, and particularly as experienced in the everyday reality of Austrian political and economic life during this time….if you had asked him a fiscal, or monetary, or regulatory policy question in the context of his role as analyst at the Chamber of Commerce, he would not have said, and did not simply say, “laissez-faire” – abolish the central bank, deregulate the economy, and eliminate taxes. He accepts that there are certain institutional “givens” that must be taken for granted, and in the context of which policy options and decisions must be worked out. He seemed to usually think with three policy “horizons” in his mind.
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Mises as Policy Advisor
Yesterday a federal judge rejected a constitutional challenge to Seattle’s ban on guns in city parks, noting that the U.S.
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How Sensitive Is Your Park?
No, you aren’t imagining it. There was a time when the Scandinavian countries could reasonably boast that it was in the grim, cold north of Europe that the most liberal, socially tolerant societies were to be found.
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Noted Homophobe Named Norway’s “Role Model of the Year”
Writing at Investors Business Daily , Independent Institute economist Robert Higgs argues that government intervention in the economy is strangling private sector investment: The current investment drought does not simply reflect the housing bust that followed the residential investment boom that peaked in 2005. To be sure, real residential investment fell tremendously, by almost 53% from 2005 to 2009, with especially rapid declines the past three years. Yet real nonresidential investment also fell greatly last year, by 18% from its 2008 peak
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How Government Spending Harms Private Investment
Hope springs eternal in the heart of the Connecticut alkie , and for a minute this week it looked like residents of the Nutmeg State ( delicious on Brandy Alexanders !) might finally be able to buy liquor at retail stores on Sunday. Some version of a ban on Sunday sales has been in place in Connecticut since at least 1882 and the state has long been famous for its old-style Blue Laws.
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Connecticut Facing 6,657th Dry Sunday
On March 4, 2010, Jacob Sullum, Nick Gillespie and Virginia Postrel appeared on a special episoode of Fox Business Network’s Stossel devoted to prohibition to discuss drug laws, ridiculous media scare stories, and legalizing markets in human organs. Approximately 30 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable iPod and audio versions
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Reasoners on The Tube: Jacob Sullum, Nick Gillespie, & Virginia Postrel Talking Drugs, Media Hysteria, and Human Organ Markets on Very Special…
CNN has a pretty good review of the pitfalls of foreign aid , looking at how the massive effort in Haiti could end up harming the country in the long run. Given that there are about 10,000 NGOs at work in Haiti right now, and that the United States has already spent $700 million on aid to Haiti, it would be good to have some signs that it’s not, you know, making things worse. What’s the right way to provide aid?
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NGOs Falling Short in Haiti
If you’re looking for a reader’s guide to attorney Anton R. Valukas’ report [ pdf ] on the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has a quirky, erudite take that calls the cops on Secretary of the Treasury (then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Tim Geithner
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How Bad Is the Lehman Bankruptcy Report for Geithner?
Uh oh, the violent teabaggers are at it again, hyperbolizing about totalitarianism and advocating open revolt : The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself.
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Heyyyyy! Think the Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution
